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The almost forgotten ‘jungle’ school in Moleson Creek

AUGUST 31, 2012 | BY  | FILED UNDER NEWS 

 

School reopens in a few days, but the question on the lips of residents of Moleson Creek is, will the students be able to attend?
The Moleson Creek Primary School currently sits in the middle of a virtual jungle and access to the learning institution at this time is almost impassable/impossible.
Moleson Creek is one of the nearest points between Guyana and neighbouring Suriname.
Apart from the jungle, access to the school is treacherous, due to the state of the road. The school is surrounded by big bushes; the compound is also overcome with tall grasses which practically cover the school.
Residents say that the school and compound presently pose a danger to students as the entire area is infested with snakes, wasps, bats and mosquitoes.

 

In the compound of the Moleson Creek Primary School.

 

The students cannot use the road which is badly damaged and is now practically a swamp. To get to school, the students will have to wade through waist-deep slush and compete with the big John Deere tractors that are the only means of transportation in the area at this time.
The distance from the main Corentyne highway to the Orealla Primary school is a mere two miles, but to travel from the main road to the school will take virtually two hours. The school is the last building in the area and about one mile away from the closest resident.
The residents are not too sure why the government decided to build the school so far away from the residential area.
According to a number of angry residents, when the children have to attend school, they are forced to trudge alone through the “jungle” and the mud.
What is ironic is that from where the centre of the population lives to the school, the road is even worse.
One resident commented: “While you can travel with these small tractors up to here, it is worse going further down. The only means of reaching by the school is by the big tractors.”
The ride to the school was a rock and roll affair.  By the time it was over, the media team was all soiled, muddy and bruised. Some members even suffered upset stomachs.
According to residents, when school closed for the August holidays, there were about 60 students registered. There was one part time teacher.
Residents of the Moleson Creek community are not certain what will happen when school is officially opened   for the commencement of classes for the new school year. The school does not have a permanent teacher and the person that was in charge last term is a retiree from Orealla.
There is also a house for the teacher but the place is lonely and is devoid of comforts.
During the visit, the residents of Moleson Creek called on Education Minister, Priya Manickchand to intervene.
Thieves have taken away four water tanks that were once installed at the school. Now, whenever school closes management is forced to remove the tanks to a resident’s house.
They said that Regional Education Officer, Ms. Shafiran Bhajan, does not help them and their many pleas have fallen on deaf ears as she usually brushes them off with a promise.

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PPP incompetence once again. The school is supposed to be built where the community lives. Is only a dumb government and its contractor would build it in no man's land. PPP progress means emigration for those who want a future.

Where is that jackass president of ours when the country needs him? He should sort this mess out if his minister is incompetent to do so.

Mr.T

This is the Guyana to which I constantly refer which is out of the sight of the vacationing diaspora who touts the progress cited just off the main roads.  There is more like this around Guyana.

FM
Originally Posted by baseman:

This is the Guyana to which I constantly refer which is out of the sight of the vacationing diaspora who touts the progress cited just off the main roads.  There is more like this around Guyana.

That Fool Jagan was quick to dismiss Church run schools. Those schools never discriminated. Today, if u want a good education, one can choose to take a muslim name and convert to islam. The muslim brothehood choose to push the PPP for their private schools-they want to make the rest of the country stupid. That is one way of enslaving the impoverished. Deny them proper education-check out Pakistan and Afghanistan.

 

On the present issue, sorry to say, "There is no one that cries for Guyana."

S
Originally Posted by seignet:

That Fool Jagan was quick to dismiss Church run schools. Those schools never discriminated.

You could not get a teaching job with the schools unless you were a Christian or Catholic.

Mitwah
Originally Posted by baseman:

This is the Guyana to which I constantly refer which is out of the sight of the vacationing diaspora who touts the progress cited just off the main roads.  There is more like this around Guyana.

In the US and Ca it is a local tax based system that pays for roads and schools in towns. What type of taxes does the Molsen creek people pay?  Is it fair for tax dollars to be taken from other parts of the nation to develop roads in remote areas? 

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
 

 . . . Is it fair for tax dollars to be taken from other parts of the nation to develop roads in remote areas? 

what a moron 'question' . . . your avatar says it all

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
Originally Posted by baseman:

This is the Guyana to which I constantly refer which is out of the sight of the vacationing diaspora who touts the progress cited just off the main roads.  There is more like this around Guyana.

In the US and Ca it is a local tax based system that pays for roads and schools in towns. What type of taxes does the Molsen creek people pay?  Is it fair for tax dollars to be taken from other parts of the nation to develop roads in remote areas? 

In Canada there is in place high quality distance learning program, visiting teachers and every community is assured access to education. I know that for a fact. My cousin used to teach in the NW territories and has been across the region from  Fort McPersom to Fort Smith. You are talking crap as usual and for what reason you make these asinine excuse for this awful state of affairs is unfathomable as the situation itself. Canada takes the time to reach out to all its citizens across vast and remote regions to deliver education.

FM
Originally Posted by redux:
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
 

 . . . Is it fair for tax dollars to be taken from other parts of the nation to develop roads in remote areas? 

what a moron 'question' . . . your avatar says it all

 

When AFC creeps lack proper rebuttal they revert to ignorant one liners to detract from the point being made. 

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
 

In Canada there is in place high quality distance learning program, visiting teachers and every community is assured access to education. I know that for a fact. My cousin used to teach in the NW territories and has been across the region from  Fort McPersom to Fort Smith. You are talking crap as usual and for what reason you make these asinine excuse for this awful state of affairs is unfathomable as the situation itself. Canada takes the time to reach out to all its citizens across vast and remote regions to deliver education.

 

Ahhhh Canada is a 1st world nation, did you forget? They have the resources from all that oil being pulled out of BC to subsidize the rest of the nation. But the fact is that you ignored the point that i was making, that it should be the town's responsibility via taxes to maintain roads and schools. Govt must save tax dollars for projects that benefit the larger population rather than a few. 

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
 

In Canada there is in place high quality distance learning program, visiting teachers and every community is assured access to education. I know that for a fact. My cousin used to teach in the NW territories and has been across the region from  Fort McPersom to Fort Smith. You are talking crap as usual and for what reason you make these asinine excuse for this awful state of affairs is unfathomable as the situation itself. Canada takes the time to reach out to all its citizens across vast and remote regions to deliver education.

 

Ahhhh Canada is a 1st world nation, did you forget? They have the resources from all that oil being pulled out of BC to subsidize the rest of the nation. But the fact is that you ignored the point that i was making, that it should be the town's responsibility via taxes to maintain roads and schools. Govt must save tax dollars for projects that benefit the larger population rather than a few. 

 We borrow everything. We do not have a tax base to support Jagdeo's pension so why the hell are you appealing to the asinine?

 

This is a failure to look to an remote village to address their needs. This is a PPP failure. They have the money to build the sophisticated water electricity cabling and road infrastructure for Pradoville II so they could have build a school convenient for the students.

 

Get it into your sorry pathetic head, we do not earn sufficient to provide for even half of our need. We depend on borrowing and begging. We have never balanced a budget on our earnings in our 7 decades of existence as a state. To speak of a tax base supporting any infrastructure build out of any kind is pure nonsense.

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
Originally Posted by redux:
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
 

 . . . Is it fair for tax dollars to be taken from other parts of the nation to develop roads in remote areas? 

what a moron 'question' . . . your avatar says it all

 

When AFC creeps lack proper rebuttal they revert to ignorant one liners to detract from the point being made. 

Let's examine the full statement of Drug_B:

"In the US and Ca it is a local tax based system that pays for roads and schools in towns. What type of taxes does the Molsen creek people pay?  Is it fair for tax dollars to be taken from other parts of the nation to develop roads in remote areas?"

___________________________________

 

U like to play stupid when cornered, eh?

 

The people of Moleson Creek pay income tax and VAT to the central gov't. 

 

Local Gov't, such as it functions as a local/regional fiduciary in NA does not exist in Guyana (no local gov't elections/reform in how long?)

 

But all this is not news . . . that's WHY you function @ the level of MORON! 

 

FM
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Can any Cunumunu/Lamata tell us when the school was built,what is the regional vcouncil doing and what are the Parents doing about any problem they may have??????? These arevery basic and simple questions even for Cunumunus.

Nehru

We should concentrate on the school in Linden that was burnt by scavengers to the ground that leave 800 student in the street. The AFC/APNU are like Talibans, they don't believe in education. They want them kids to steal and commit murder in Guyana. 

FM

Ppl that live that deep in the interior are not the kind of ppl that have the sort of facilities and access to government officials like ppl in towns. Your questions show how much you know about life in the interior far away from mainstream humanity.

Mr.T
Originally Posted by ABIDHA:

We should concentrate on the school in Linden that was burnt by scavengers to the ground that leave 800 student in the street. The AFC/APNU are like Talibans, they don't believe in education. They want them kids to steal and commit murder in Guyana. 


MOSES, GR AND RAMJHAAAAAAATAN ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BURNING OF THE SCHOOL IN LINDEN. NOW THE POOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS HAVE TO SUFFER WHILE THESE ROBBER BARRONS CONTINUE THEIR WONDERFUL LIVES!!!!!

Nehru
bullshiOriginally Posted by Mr.T:

Ppl that live that deep in the interior are not the kind of ppl that have the sort of facilities and access to government officials like ppl in towns. Your questions show how much you know about life in the interior far away from mainstream humanity.


BULLSHIT!!!!

Nehru
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by ABIDHA:

We should concentrate on the school in Linden that was burnt by scavengers to the ground that leave 800 student in the street. The AFC/APNU are like Talibans, they don't believe in education. They want them kids to steal and commit murder in Guyana. 


MOSES, GR AND RAMJHAAAAAAATAN ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BURNING OF THE SCHOOL IN LINDEN. NOW THE POOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS HAVE TO SUFFER WHILE THESE ROBBER BARRONS CONTINUE THEIR WONDERFUL LIVES!!!!!

Shouting that Goebbelsian LIE over and over and over on as many forums as possible will not scrub out the fact that PPP AGENTS burnt down the people's primary school in Linden; just as they MURDERED the 3 protesters on the bridge IN COLD BLOOD! 

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
 

 We borrow everything. We do not have a tax base to support Jagdeo's pension so why the hell are you appealing to the asinine?

 

This is a failure to look to an remote village to address their needs. This is a PPP failure. They have the money to build the sophisticated water electricity cabling and road infrastructure for Pradoville II so they could have build a school convenient for the students.

 

Get it into your sorry pathetic head, we do not earn sufficient to provide for even half of our need. We depend on borrowing and begging. We have never balanced a budget on our earnings in our 7 decades of existence as a state. To speak of a tax base supporting any infrastructure build out of any kind is pure nonsense.

PNC and AFc voted for Jagdeo pension plan because they were part of the same unconscionable compensation plan. Now when it became politically relevant, they claim that they cry foul. 

 

For a poor nation like Guyana with limited education dollars, one can not expect the same methods used in affluent nations. You AFC brainwashed people would do the same if you ere in power. The best option would be to arrange a boarding school for the 2 children of Molsen creek as they do with the Amerindians. But being a white man pretending to be buck, you would not be aware of this.  

FM
Originally Posted by Mitwah:
Originally Posted by seignet:

That Fool Jagan was quick to dismiss Church run schools. Those schools never discriminated.

You could not get a teaching job with the schools unless you were a Christian or Catholic.


But you could get an education-and that was more important. Try getting a job at a muslim school-one has to be a maaji.

S
Originally Posted by Mr.T:

Is Ramotar who had the skool burnt down so that he could go and visit to show sympathy. Typical PPP scam.


Dont judge others bybthe standard of yourself and generations!!!!

Nehru
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
 

 We borrow everything. We do not have a tax base to support Jagdeo's pension so why the hell are you appealing to the asinine?

 

This is a failure to look to an remote village to address their needs. This is a PPP failure. They have the money to build the sophisticated water electricity cabling and road infrastructure for Pradoville II so they could have build a school convenient for the students.

 

Get it into your sorry pathetic head, we do not earn sufficient to provide for even half of our need. We depend on borrowing and begging. We have never balanced a budget on our earnings in our 7 decades of existence as a state. To speak of a tax base supporting any infrastructure build out of any kind is pure nonsense.

PNC and AFc voted for Jagdeo pension plan because they were part of the same unconscionable compensation plan. Now when it became politically relevant, they claim that they cry foul. 

 

For a poor nation like Guyana with limited education dollars, one can not expect the same methods used in affluent nations. You AFC brainwashed people would do the same if you ere in power. The best option would be to arrange a boarding school for the 2 children of Molsen creek as they do with the Amerindians. But being a white man pretending to be buck, you would not be aware of this.  

The Jagdeo pension plan was forced through despite objections by the PPP. Those are the facts and not the swill you intend to sell.

 

Education dollars is indeed scarce but every child should be accounted for. Distance learning can be explored and boarding as you suggested could be an option.

 

I would more suggest you are ideologically bound and too much concerned with the reflected glow of success of kind to be objectively critical. Is that not why you are so easy to jump in defense of that corrupt regime?

 

I am not a member of the AFC or any party. I write my own opinion and represent myself not any one. The PPP failed here and whether you care to accept it such is the case.

 

I can be to you white or black or brown or anything you can conceive to please yourself in your mind. Your delusions are your own not mine.

FM

before they kill the three people there was no violence,so the ppp crime family had to do something to make the protest looks bad remember the whole country was watching so the only thing that looks real bad is to burn a school rohee is the mastermind behind this

FM

The Moleson Creek School is a rat hole, where the rats infesting the PPP should be residing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012 | BY  | FILED UNDER LETTERS 

Dear Editor,
Only with the PPP you get Marriott hotel before Moleson Creek School and DPP office before Passport Office in Berbice
Every single day, people across this country wake up sucking their teeth. They live in such an exasperatingly corrupt and deficient country where their government is mindless, vindictive, clueless and motivated by self-interest, nepotism and cronyism. We have a school in Moleson Creek in the heart of Berbice, a PPP stronghold. The school could be something out of the Jungle Book. It is surrounded by snakes, bats and a forest. The road to this school is scarier than Fright Night.
The charlatans running the PPP do not see it fit to fix this school. The bandits dominating the PPP see it fit to build a Marriott Hotel instead in a country saturated with hotels and always suffering from high vacancy because no right-thinking foreigner considers this shameful paradise the PPP built as visit-worthy. The Marriott Hotel is being built from taxpayers’ money held by NICIL, a state corporation the PPP government refuses to allow any kind of independent audit of, has refused to adhere to a parliamentary motion on and which the opposition claims is missing over $40 billion.
The PPP wants to use billions of the Guyanese people’s money to build a white elephant hotel just like it handed out lucrative contracts to build the white elephant Skeldon Sugar Factory and the Enmore Packaging Plant, yet it leaves a school just down the road from the Skeldon white elephant sugar factory looking like an oversized latrine in the Amazon. This is called putting the horse before the cart mentality. It is called looking after the rich, powerful and the upper crust while neglecting the lower classes of this country.
It is called dumb and reckless decision-making. How could the PPP practice this kind of discrimination against the poor people of this country? How could this party that received 32,360 Berbician votes in the 2011 election kick and mistreat Berbicians in this fashion? How could they neglect a school that will be filled by children of poor people in that community while fighting to build a hotel that will remain empty for most of the time?
No government in its right mind unless it is motivated by self-greed and personal enrichment and not the interests of the people will ever waste taxpayers’ money in this fashion. These shamans refuse to pay cane cutters and sugar workers in Berbice or to treat them with dignity but they prefer to build fancy white elephant hotels. This version of the PPP is a foul and bastardized version of Cheddi Jagan’s party and dream. Cheddi Jagan would never be rushing to build hotels while the children of this country are learning in hovels. The pigs who have hijacked the PPP have no problem leaving poor people’s children learning in a pigsty. Their children attend private schools and overseas universities.
The Moleson Creek School is a rat hole, exactly the place where the rats infesting the PPP should be residing. Now the reprobates want to build a DPP office in New Amsterdam rather than return the Passport and Driver Licence office back to Berbice. There is nothing wrong in having an office of the DPP in Berbice but it is unprincipled to build this office in Berbice before a passport and driver licensing office. Every single day, we have dozens of Berbicians having to disrupt their lives and running around in Georgetown like headless chickens while baking in the hot sun in that cow pen that passes for a structure in the passport and driver licence offices.
In order to get a passport or a driver’s licence in this country, already struggling poor people must leave their homes, put their livelihoods on hold, lose money and huddle like prisoners in a POW camp to get a sordid piece of paper. The PPP closed the offices in New Amsterdam to drive the people of Berbice into Georgetown in a mercenary assault on their dignity. The intent was to fill the pockets of the private owners of the Berbice Bridge by sending Berbicians scampering back and forth over that bridge to Georgetown. The PPP, controlled by the Jagdeoites, favours the rich and powerful over the poor and the powerless.
This is the recurring theme of the PPP, the constant nightmare; it always favours the rich over the poor. The dilemma for Berbicians is they feel like political hostages. They are disgusted and saddened by the PPP but are deathly afraid of a return of the PNC and rightly so. They feel trapped, hurt, angry and ashamed. They never thought back in 1992 that they would be at this crossroads facing this deep moral predicament where they hate and revile the very party they support simply because the alternative is another beast known as PNC/APNU.
The PPP hacks know how Berbicians are tormented and trapped. They think Berbicians will grin and take the insult and the shame that this group controlling the PPP heaps upon them.
They believe in their twisted minds that Berbicians are too afraid to do better. They see Berbicians as sheep willing to fold under the whip of the Jagdeoites who control the PPP for the sake of preventing the rise of the PNC. But people have had enough.
Some have already left and are never returning to the PPP, no matter how fearful they are. Others are leaving every day from the party of their ancestors.
In this repulsive country the PPP has created, it is difficult to reconcile one’s inner morality with political support for the PPP. Some will choose saving their soul rather than saving the political souls of inveterate sinners. This is what has happened to some PPP supporters.
The final nail in the coffin for some Berbicians and other PPP supporters is the PNC/APNU practices more democracy and internal accountability than the PPP.
That brings great shame to some supporters of the PPP who knew how despotic and malevolent the PNC was when it destroyed this country. Other PPP supporters have realized a long time now that this is not about race but really about class. That the Jageoites and their friends in charge of the PPP have benefited from racial voting and used that benefit to create a specially favoured new upper class in this country at the expense of the majority working class poor.
The handwriting is on the wall for the PPP and like every arrogant government that has fallen heavily from grace, it cannot even recognize it.
M. Maxwell

Mars

hahahaha, m maxwell again, a paid letter writer of the afc/pnc whose purpose is to lambaste the govt and deflect from the progress being made in the nation. This fool's job is to focus on the most obscure of issue, such as a wooden bridge in the middle of nowhere or as in this case a school for 2 children. hahahahah

FM

I have to say, I give the AFC/Opposition points for highlighting such neglect.  These are justified gripes and the PPP need to be accountable.  The PPP is corrupt and inept on many fronts and the need to be called out on it.

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:

hahahaha, m maxwell again, a paid letter writer of the afc/pnc whose purpose is to lambaste the govt and deflect from the progress being made in the nation. This fool's job is to focus on the most obscure of issue, such as a wooden bridge in the middle of nowhere or as in this case a school for 2 children. hahahahah

It's a good thing you got that goadee as a funbag to make up for your stupidity.

Mitwah

The Peoples Progressive Party was NEVER an organization with principles. It founders lacked organizational skills and the commom sense of how to manage. They have bequeath to its inheritors the lives of supporters who really are voiceless.

 

Thank u Mr. Maxwell for ur efforts.

 

The Presidency of Guyana is a useless office. The voice and the mediator is the PPP.

 

It is time to remove those who occupy Freedom House. 

S
Originally Posted by Mitwah:

How could this party that received 32,360 Berbician votes in the 2011 election kick and mistreat Berbicians in this fashion?

Maybe because they don't all see it the way you see it.  The question you should ask, if the PPP is so bad to them, why are they still so loyal?

FM
Originally Posted by baseman:
Originally Posted by Mitwah:

How could this party that received 32,360 Berbician votes in the 2011 election kick and mistreat Berbicians in this fashion?

Maybe because they don't all see it the way you see it.  The question you should ask, if the PPP is so bad to them, why are they still so loyal?

They see it the way I see it. They are told that a vote for the AFC is a vote for the black man. And you very well know the answer to your question that they vote for the PPP out of fear and not on issues.

Mitwah
Originally Posted by Mitwah:
Originally Posted by baseman:
Originally Posted by Mitwah:

How could this party that received 32,360 Berbician votes in the 2011 election kick and mistreat Berbicians in this fashion?

Maybe because they don't all see it the way you see it.  The question you should ask, if the PPP is so bad to them, why are they still so loyal?

They see it the way I see it. They are told that a vote for the AFC is a vote for the black man. And you very well know the answer to your question that they vote for the PPP out of fear and not on issues.

The PNC cannot be allowed to rise to power again, at least not within the current constitutional frameworks.  It has been now proven, the AFC is a PNC back-door to power.

FM

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