President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Mark Lyte has accused the Ministry of Education of breaching both the gazetted COVID-19 guidelines as well as the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) social distancing advice.
The accusation came after the GTU President reported that students are being made to sit two on a bench while classes are in session which clearly breaches the Ministry of Health’s 6 feet apart mandate as well as the WHO’s minimum 1 metre apart advice.
“We now have children seated two in a bench. The Union wrote the ministry indicating that a bench is just over a metre long and therefore, it does not provide the opportunity for a safe distance between two students, two learners.
