Two parents from Soesdyke have complained that their children were told not to return to the Soesdyke Community High School because they failed their examinations.Kim Primo,Cheap Air Max Shoes, who is the mother of a 15-year-old who attends the school, told this newspaper that on Friday her daughter informed her that she cannot attend school anymore.When questioned, the child told her mother that her teacher at the Soesdyke Community High School told the fourth form students in the class that they cannot attend school in the new term, which begins in September.The students said that they can’t attend school anymore because they were told that they failed their examination.According to Primo,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, her daughter only wrote the exam once, and she was under the impression that she would at least be given another chance.She admitted that her daughter is not one of the best performers in the school, but however noted that she deserves a second chance.Primo said that the entire fourth form,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, which comprises of forms 4A, B, C and D, failed the examination and all the students were told not to return to school. But this was not a possibility.Kaieteur News contacted the headmaster of the school, Orin Roberts who refuted what Primo said.According to the headmaster, it is impossible for the entire fourth form to fail the examination and it would be stupid for the school to tell all the students not to return to school for the new term.He said that toward the end of the term, he had discussions with teachers about children entering the fifth form.In the new school year the school would be upgraded to a secondary school—the Soesdyke Secondary School.Mr Roberts said that prior to the examinations the students were urged to study harder because if they didn’t, they would fail again. He said that this message was not taken home.He contended that it may be a case of misinformation passed on to the parents by the children.?He said that this is not the first time.On one occasion he asked the children to inform their parents that they needed to contribute $20 to help transport textbooks for the benefit of the children. The children went home to announce that the headmaster was selling textbooks for $20.?Yesterday afternoon, Ms Primo said that her daughter, who gained 21 per cent the term before, is very depressed about the situation and is now worrying of what would become of her life, since she believes that she cannot attend school anymore.The parent noted that she is not financially stable to send her daughter to a private school.If the situation is not rectified before the new school term, the woman said that the only option left is for her daughter to take computer classes.She said that other parents in the community are complaining about the same problem, but they are afraid of speaking out on the issue.Another parent,Cheap China Jerseys, Michelle Johnson, also told Kaieteur News that her daughter is experiencing the same dilemma.According to Johnson, her daughter informed her that the teachers at the school told the students in the fourth form not to return to school because they failed the examination.When contacted for a comment on the matter yesterday, Minister of Education Shaik Baksh said that he was unaware of what was being reported at the school.He said it is a breach of the Ministry’s policy and students should not be sent home because they fail the examination.According to the Education Minister, an education officer will be sent to the Soesdyke Community High School by Friday, so as to ensure that the matter is rectified.Baksh said that his Ministry will ensure that the students be allowed to attend the school for the new term in September.A similar problem was experienced a few days ago at the Ann’s Grove Community High School, where students were also told not to return to school because they failed the examination. However, these were children who had failed successive years.However, according to Minister Baksh,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, this matter has been dealt with and those students will be allowed to attend school for the new term.

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Innovative approaches and solutions, especially among young entrepreneurs,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, can be key in advancing Guyana’s agricultural sector. Advancement in the sector can lie in the nuanced ideas which the country’s youth is able to utilise.This is the view shared by youth entrepreneur, Mark Boneo, a teenager from Trinidad and Tobago who has reaped immense success from digging his hands into his country’s agricultural sector. In an interview with Kaieteur News, Boneo related that his success in his country’s agricultural sector has resulted in him forecasting a financial return of US$10,000 in the near future.The young entrepreneur was visiting Guyana as one of the feature speakers at a recently held youth forum, the “Just Youth It Conference”.In his address to the hundreds of youths present at the local conference, Boneo shared his success story in the agricultural sector as someone who before entering the field had little interest in traditional farming.Boneo became an agricultural entrepreneur after being inspired by another youth conference in the US a few years ago to take part in hydroponics.Young agricultural entrepreneur, Mark BoneoHydroponic is a subset of hydro-culture and is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with solution only, or in an inert medium, such as gravel.For Guyana, the 19 year-old posited that such contemporary and innovative approaches to agriculture could be vital in garnering more interest in the sector from young people.The young entrepreneur, a native of Lopinot, Trinidad, a predominantly farming community,Cheap Air Max 90, said that he never really had interest in traditional agriculture, but after adopting hydroponic methods, it opened up a new realm of possibility both sustainably and financially for him.His business journey, Boneo related, began two years ago after he visited his country’s agricultural development bank,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, seeking a loan to help start up a hydroponics facility. The young businessman said that he was initially turned away by the bank, given his age, but persisted in the pursuit of his ambitions in agriculture.He eventually obtained the loan,Jerseys From China, and was able to harvest produce from his first crop to take care of initial expenses. Since then, Boneo was able to the produce more of his crops, and now as a result the he is able to own his own hydroponic greenhouse system.“Within the next two years, I’d like to own 10, with a factory which processes the produce and then ship it to intermediaries within the region,” shared Boneo.He said that this is all part of his vision to create affordable food in his country along with delivering food that is high in quality and can compete in the international market with regards to packaging.To ensure the sustained success of his agricultural venture, Boneo shared that he continuously tests his crops on a small level then observes his failures and accomplishments with the harvest. Once a viable solution is found on the smaller level, then the 19 year-old employs it to his large scale produce.Boneo’s hydroponic venture has now afforded him the opportunity to delve into other business ventures and he is now looking for ways to invest in the Guyanese market.With Guyana, Boneo shared that he sees much potential in the country’s agricultural sector with regard to hydroponics, especially with young persons who wish to be part of a modern way of farming.The continuity of agriculture is vital to the country, but Climate Change poses new challenges for the sector. However, these challenges can work to the benefit of younger generations as they find new ways to maintain and control the production of agricultural produce through contemporary methods like hydroponics.“Climate Change is something real so if you have agriculture being a major part of the economy and Climate Change is a reality, then sustainability is a major challenge. We don’t want to have tomorrow 30 percent of the economy being down because of a change in the weather,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic,” said Boneo.The young man added that by expanding the types of crops produced, outside major crops like sugar and rice, would be a step closer to ensuring food security not only for Guyana but for the Caribbean.Asked what he would say to Guyanese youth about venturing into the agricultural sector, Boneo responded the young people need to stop being reactive.“When you become reactive you blame everybody else for your situation… Be proactive, take the initiative… then you will see opportunities in agriculture,” said the youthful businessman.

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– escape in boat with over $8MBy Latoya Giles Six heavily armed gunmen dressed in military clothing robbed and terrorised a Meten-Meer-Zorg West Coast Demerara,Cheap NFL Jerseys Online, business family on Saturday night before escaping with just over $8M cash and jewellery.The family’s grocery store, which is located at Lot 52 Meten-Meer-Zorg is owned and operated by Indranie Bisram called “Annie” and her husband Deonaugth Judistry.When this newspaper visited the scene yesterday morning,NFL Jerseys Cheap, the family was still in a state of shock from their ordeal.Several relatives were seen comforting the businesswoman and her ten-year-old daughter.Speaking with Kaieteur News, Indranie Bisram said that it was around 20:00hrs on Saturday when the bandits struck.Bisram explained that the grocery store normally closes at 19:30hrs, but the family was waiting on a driver to park the vehicle in the yard before they closed the business.“We does normally close at 7:30 pm, …but by the car didn’t come home yet meh husband seh leh we wait and make one close up,” the woman told Kaieteur News.According to the woman, her husband was sitting outside in the shop when the gunmen walked in and jumped onto a counter.“My husband was sitting outside when the men in army clothes came and jumped on the counter…..they all had big guns, it looked like the AK 47s” Bisram said.Three of the men managed to get inside of the shop and forced Bisram’s nephew, along with another employee, to lie on the floor. Two were in the yard with some customers, while the third was outside in the middle of the road as a lookout.The Grocery Store which the bandits struck Present in the store was the couple’s 10-year-old daughter, who quickly fled to the upper flat of the building.The armed men proceeded to strip the businesswoman of jewellery she was wearing at the time.They then emptied a drawer containing an estimated $100,000.“The drawer was locked and the key was right next to it…but I was so nervous I didn’t see it…so they lashed open the drawer”.She further told Kaieteur News that all five of the family’s cell phones were in the store charging and the bandits managed to get the phones, worth over $100,000.“All de cell phones are expensive…I thought they didn’t get it because the paper was covering it…is only after I went looking for it to call the police I realise that it gone,” Bisram said.Moving through the store the bandits stumbled across a cheque book and a number of cheques. The value of the cheques is still to be determined.After collecting the cheques the men then headed to another drawer where the family also kept money.“After I see they tek de cheques them I thought they finish…but they started walking through de house and went to the back drawer and took out the money” the woman said.Kaieteur News was told that men operated as though they knew where everything was, which surprised the businesswoman. This newspaper was told that the bandits found $US 11,621 and a quantity of Guyana currency which was not counted from that drawer.After removing the last set of money from the store downstairs the three bandits then pushed Bisram upstairs to her bedroom.The men ransacked the bedroom and removed a quantity of gold jewellery among other valuables in the room.However, the bandits still felt that the family had more and continued demanding that Bisram hand over more cash and jewellery. She estimated that the bandits managed to get away with over $2M in jewellery.“They done collect the gold and money and still saying they want more and they gonna kill me if I aint give them more” the woman cried.At this point the woman’s 10 year old daughter jumped in front of her mother and began begging the bandits not to kill her.“Meh daughter jumped in front of me and seh yall don’t kill meh mother….then one of them took the gun and started lashing meh child in she head and face,” the mother cried.The young child was treated at the Cottage Hospital,Cheap Stitched Jerseys, and presently she cannot eat or swallow because of the injuries she received.The mother also received two gaping wounds to the head after she was beaten in the head.Businessman Deonaugth Judistry said he had to pretend that he was? a customer and scaled a neighbour’s fence in a bid to escape from the gunmen.According to Judistry, he was sitting outside of the store waiting for the driver to come when he saw the six men approaching.He was positive that the men were wearing military clothes and they came from the direction of the sea dam.As the men entered his business place and ran towards the counter, Judistry said he realised that they were being attacked.“After I see is bandits I tell them I just come fuh buy flour fuh mek roti, then I run and jump over de fence,<a href="http://www.wholesalecheapauthenticjerseys.us.

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About100 supporters of A Partnership for National Unity in Berbice on Thursday peacefully picketed the office of the Guyana Elections Commission in New Amsterdam and the Regional Administration.They have vowed to continue doing so until their demands are met.Their main bone of contention is that they need a statement by statement verification.APNU is saying that the elections were not free and fair. They cited a number of discrepancies that occurred during the election and they want these addressed including the manipulation of votes,China Jerseys Online, missing statements of poll,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, multiple voting,Wholesale China Jerseys Free Shpping, giving legitimate voters tendered ballots to vote on Election Day and tyrannical tactics by PPPC supporters and candidates on Election Day.APNU has also complained that the integrity of some ballot boxes has been called into question,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, particularly in the wake of the discovery of a number of broken ballot-box seals.The PPPC won 32 seats in the 65-seat National Assembly with 48.6 percent; APNU with 26 seats and 40.8 percent and the Alliance of Change (AFC) got seven seats with 10.3 percent.The protesters plan to continue the picketing exercise until their demands are met. Some of the placards read ‘APNU has won,’ ‘NO weapon formed against APNU will prosper,’ ‘We need justice,Cheap Jerseys,’ ‘Rigging of Elections must stop,’ and people of Guyana have voted APNU.