In what is seen as another vote buying strategy, yesterday President Irfaan Ali announced the Government will cover the cost of up to eight subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) for students in both public and private schools.
Guyana’s General and Regional Elections are constitutionally due this year.
Funding for the subjects are estimated $700 million, with an estimated $48,000 allocated to each student.
Ali made the announcement at a community meeting at the West Demerara School
From January 2025, Ali has removed fee paying from the University of Guyana, thereby restoring Guyanese constitutional right to free education from nursery to university. In 1994 the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Government has imposed fee paying at the University of Guyana in 1994.
And in what is seen as using taxpayers’ money in creating certificate mills, many of which is only worth the paper it’s printed on, the Ali government implemented the controversial and scandal plagued Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL). The programme is allocated more money than the University of Guyana.
