Pheona Agard appears to like nothing better than ‘doubling up” as a secondary school teacher and an emerging entrepreneur preoccupied with what she says is “the blending of several business ventures.”
To describe her simply as a home economist is to do her a disservice. As she puts it, her present pursuits comprise “the blending of several businesses.” For twenty years she has served as what the education bureaucracy describes as a “Trained Graduate Teacher”, teaching Home Economics, Social Studies, Food, Nutrition and Health, Family and Resource Management, Geography, and Health and Family Life Education, to students ranging from Grades Seven to Twelve. After she has left you exhausted with the sheer weight of her workload at the Berbice High School she nonchalantly adds: “I do catering, cake decorating, balloon work, event planning and interior decorating on the side.” Hers, it seems, is a breathless existence.
