Increasingly, stories that derive from journalistic ‘intrusions’ into the lives of Guyanese women, some of them shockingly young when account is taken of the extent of the responsibilities that they already bear, serve to remind that much of what gets said by officialdom on the subject of gender and opportunity amounts to no more than ‘old hat.’ The gap between drive and ambition of young Guyanese women and the opportunities to realise those ambitions has to be filled by concrete and relevant action, not hot air.
The circumstances of 18-year-old Khandi Griffith mirror that truism. No slouch academically, her formal education, nonetheless, would appear to have been put ‘on hold’, whilst she navigates her way towards an early glimpse of an independent adult life.
Khandi’s secondary school education began at the New Amsterdam Secondary school. Out of those years came the reward of seven (7) subjects at the CSEC examination, her grades reflecting overall, a more than creditable performance. Afterwards she proceeded to St Joseph High School with the particular mission of pursuing CAPE studies.
