By Nicole Telford- Shadow Minister of Local Government and Regional Development Ganesh Mahipaul seemed to have waxed the floor of Parliament with the Minister of Human Services and Social Security (HS&SS), Dr. Vindhya Persaud who seemed confused and ignorant to the fact that the A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance for Change Government (APNU/AFC) built Early Childhood Development Centres across the country to assist working parents with expensive childcare cost.
Mahipaul, during his presentation at the 66th sitting of the National Assembly, called for the Minister to tender her resignation forthwith after she was screaming boisterously “where were the childcare schools, where where.”
At attempt in jolting the minister’s memory the shadow minister outlined “we [the APNU/AFC] built early childhood centres, and the whole background to early childhood centres was so that young children from working parents can have an avenue where they can go and learn, cared for and nurtured, so that parents would not have to worry about children, three and four years old.”
Having presented the information, Mahipaul, continuing to address the minister intoned, “where are the screams [of] PPP/C Minister of (HS&SS) Vindhya Persaud, from across the floor?”
Without missing a beat, he continued, “one of them is located in Region Three at Lenora, I know about that one because my son cut the ribbon to open that school in 2017 or 2018; there is one in Suddie, there is one in Dartmouth. So, the fact that you are asking me Honourable Vindy Persaud where are these schools is enough for you to tender your resignation now from this honourable house because you are in a position where you can travel off the backs of the taxpayers’ money, visit those schools and ensure that it is properly taken cared of, but you don’t know where they are. Tat is evidence that you are not utilising your office for the benefit of the people of this country, so I advise tender your resignation now.”
Childhood Development centres were built under the APNU/AFC five-year term of Government in Essequibo, at Dartmouth and Suddie in Region Two, Ann’s Grove in Region Four, Linden in Region 10, Lenora in Region Three, among other communities across Guyana.
