The Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) has rejected the Ministry of Education (MoE)’s claim that its Allied Arts Unit (AAU) did not receive any request for information regarding the exclusion of children from this year’s Mashramani Competition.
The MoE had issued a statement on their Facebook page last Thursday to address this newspaper’s article, titled `Rights commission awaiting info on exclusion of children from Mash contests’ which was published on Wednesday last. According to the Ministry’s statement, on March 22, an unidentified person who refused to provide any form of identification visited the Unit of the Allied Arts’ office.
“At the time, all senior officers were in the fields on official duties and as such, he was provided with a telephone number for the office to make contact later. To date, no contact has been made with the Unit nor has any official request been made for information regarding the Children’s Mashramani Calypso Competition,” it said.
