Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand has disputed statements made by former Minister and current Member of Parliament, Cathy Hughes about the number of smart classrooms in the education system.
On Wednesday, Hughes attended a virtual AFC press conference on its Facebook page and in her presentation stated that between July 2015 and July 2020, the National Data Management Authority in association with the then Ministry of Education and her previous ministry, the Ministry of Public Telecom-munications, opened and operationalised 11 smart classrooms.
She listed the schools where the classrooms were opened as: Queen’s College (master classroom), East Ruimveldt Secondary, Leonora Secondary, Skeldon Linepath Secondary, New Amsterdam Multilateral, President’s College, Brick-dam Secondary, Christianburg Secondary, Bush Lot Secondary, Soesdyke Secon-dary, and the 8th of May Secondary. Hughes added that special emphasis was made to ensure that equal representation was given to Guyana’s diverse communities and listed the effort in chronological order. In November 2017, a $6 million smart classroom at NCERD was launched and in February 2019, smart classrooms were established and launched in Regions One and Nine, at the Lethem Resource Training Centre and the Kato Secondary School.
