The results of the National Grade Six Assessment for 2008 were unveiled yesterday by Education Minister Shaik Baksh, who expressed much satisfaction at the overall performance.According to the minister, 17,630 candidates were entered for the assessment, which was undertaken over two days from March 26. They were assessed in the subject areas of Mathematics, English, Science and Social Studies.He pointed out that all of the candidates had previously written the National Grade Two Assessment in 2004 and the National Grade Four Assessment in 2006.He noted that yesterday’s results were a report on the candidates’ overall performance at the three assessments.Minister Baksh outlined that? percentages of the marks gained at the Grades Two and Four Assessments were combined with the marks gained at the Grade Six Assessment in order to determine the candidates’ overall scores.And, according to him, five per cent of each candidate’s Grade Two scores in Mathematics and English, and 10 per cent of each candidate’s Grade Four scores in the same subjects were added to 85 per cent of each candidate’s scores in those subjects.The combined scores in Mathematics and English were added to the scores gained in Science and Social Studies, the minister said.He posited that the highest possible scores obtainable in the respective subject areas were Mathematics 140, English 146, Social Studies 152 and Science 140.He also divulged that the highest possible overall score that a student could have attained at the Grade Six Assessment was 578 marks.And gaining the topmost position, with a score of 558 marks, is Yogeeta Persaud of C. V. Nunes Primary School,Cheap NFL Jerseys, on the Essequibo Coast, in Region Two.Second place was gained by Sayyid Rajab of Isa Islamic School, who attained 556 marks; while Arianna Seeraj of St Margaret’s Primary secured third place with 553 marks.Shahrazaed Khan, of Isa Islamic School, scored 552 marks, which afforded him the fourth place, while the fifth position was shared by Ridwaan Safi of St Margaret’s, Zimeena Rasheed of C. V. Nunes, Crystal Ramdayal of West Ruimveldt and Jonelle Europe of the ABC Academy.? They all secured 551 marks.Kavita Sawh, of Dharmic Rama Krishna, gained the ninth position with 549 marks.Capturing 10th place, with 548 marks, were: Shaphan Hestick and Cecil Cox, both of the New Guyana School; Sharmilar Ramlall of Leonora Primary, and Eunice Hammond of St Margaret’s Primary.According to the minister, 147 students from schools outside of Georgetown are eligible for entry into President’s College.These he outlined as C. V. Nunes, Suddie, Fisher, Taymouth Manor, Hampton Court, Jacklow, Sparta,Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale, Queenstown, Good Hope and Kabakaburi Primary Schools, as well as the Al Madinah Islamic Academy, all from Region Two.Those eligible from Region Three were drawn from Kawall,Cheap Jerseys, Vreed-en-Hoop, Windsor Forest, Leonora, Meten-Meer-Zorg, Philadelphia, Greenwich Park, Cornelia Ida, Uitvlugt, Wales and Saraswat Primary Schools.Students eligible from Region Five are from Mahaicony, Lachmansingh, Zealand, Bath and No.29 Primary Schools, while students qualifying from Region Six came from Corriverton, No.48, Auchlyne, Friends, Gangaram, Albion, Cumberland, Rose Hall Estate, Sheet Anchor, Skeldon, Crabwood Creek and St Therese Primary Schools.In Region Ten, the eligible students came from One Mile, Regma and Watooka Day Primary Schools.The minister revealed that students from 23 schools in Region Four are also eligible for entry into President’s College.These schools include Helena, Clonbrook, Golden Grove, Enmore Hope, Enterprise, Strathspey, Annandale, Lusignan, Mon Repos, La Bonne Intention, Chateau Margot, Montrose, Vryheid’s Lust, Virginia, Ann’s Grove,NFL Jerseys From China, Cane Grove, Peter’s Hall, Covent Garden,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, Supply, Craig, Grove, Eccles and Providence Primary Schools.And, according to the minister, it has been observed that the trend of female candidates outperforming their male counterparts is evident this year, as it has been the previous year.He disclosed that, from a sample of the top 108 of the candidates, the results revealed that 43 are males and 65 are females.He said that the examination of the distribution of the top 108 candidates showed that eight candidates came from six schools in Region Two, with the top performer coming from the C. V. Nunes Primary School.From Region Three, there were 11 top performers from three schools, with the top school being Leonora Primary; while Region Four saw six top candidates from five schools, with all the schools performing almost equally, the minister said.In Georgetown, he noted, there wer

Former residents of Enterprise on the East Coast of Demerara, now residing in the United States of America, are continuing to ensure that life for their less fortunate villagers back home is less burdensome.At least three families from the Enterprise community have benefitted significantly from the benevolence of their countrymen abroad, while other families continue to receive tangible support. Padmawattie Singh and her children pose with Rasheed Baksh (right) on the verandah of her newly renovated house.Within the past few months, the Enterprise Support Group,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, New York Incorporated has built one new house, renovated another and has provided assistance to a nine- year old girl who is stricken with polio.Padmawattie Singh, whose husband Sukhram Dhanai disappeared while working in the East Coast Demerara backlands and is now feared dead was left to fend for her three young children.The home she was living in was in dire need of repairs and with her meager public assistance, there was no way that she could have done it on her own.The roof was leaking, the windows were left incomplete and the small verandah had fallen apart.She heard about the enterprise group which is headed by A. Rickeeram (Harold) and with the encouragement of neighbours she decided to approach them.It did not take the organisation too long to unanimously agree that she needed help.“They ask me wha help me need and I tell dem whatever help they could give me I gon accept,” she said when this newspaper visited her at her newly renovated house on Good Friday.Dhanwantie Sundarlall (left) and her family now have a new home thanks to the Enterprise Support Group.“I now feel comfortable, yeah. Me glad because that was another stress,” she added.In addition to the repairs to her house, Singh has also been receiving $10,000 per months to assist her with living expenses.Singh said that ever since her husband disappeared she has been praying night and day for assistance and it came in the form of the Enterprise Support Group.For almost all her life, Dhanwantie Sundarlall grew up in a house that could have fallen at any given moment.Her mother, Sahajee,NFL Jerseys Supply, who suffered a stroke recently and her sister were in no position to change their wretched fortunes.But when some members of the group visited Guyana and saw the appalling conditions they were living in,Wholesale Hockey Jerseys China, it moved them to rectify the situation.Now at the end of the project, Sundarlall and the rest of the family are resting comfortably in a spanking new two-bedroom house on stilts.And to make life more comfortable for her mother who has a problem climbing the stairs, the enterprise support group threw in a concrete bedroom on the ground floor for good measure.“I want to thank them for helping us. No longer we gon feel like the house gon fall down,” Sundarlall said.That was not the end of the assistance they received. Two brand news beds were added to really make life comfortable.Life for nine-year old Rajani Persaud has been made much easier after she acquired a caliper through the benevolence of fellow villagers residing overseas. “We more than comfortable now,” Sundarlall said.The elderly Sahajee said that with her new home she no longer has to sleep with a bucket next to her to catch the water from her once leaking roof whenever it rained.Nine years ago, Savitry Eakram’s daughter,NFL Jerseys Cheap, Rajani Persaud, was born with severe polio in her feet and could only move around with the assistance of others.Eakram had nowhere to turn to and had almost resigned herself to having to care for her daughter all her life but that was until the Enterprise Support Group stepped in last year February.“Somebody tell me about the group and they saw her and they tek information about she,” Eakram told Kaieteur News.She was so surprised by the swiftness of their response.The group provided Eakram’s daughter with a caliper which assists with stretching her muscles and bones.Although nine year old Rajani does not go to school with the device, it certainly goes a long way in assisting with her leading some sort of a normal life and she is fast adjusting it.“I never expected them (group) to respond so fast,” Eakram said.According to Rasheed Baksh of the group’s local steering committee, the organisation has grown by leaps and bounds since it started and there is now greater scope for persons to receive more assistance.“More people are getting to know about our group and more people want help from it. There are several people who still need help in Enterprise and we’re trying as hard as possible to get help to them,Cheap Jerseys China,” Baksh said.The purpose of th