Fix Your Business or We Will Fix It For You – GTU General Secretary

The Guyana Teachers Union today weighed in on the current issues concerning the release of the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) results. Coretta McDonald, General Secretary for the Guyana Teachers Union, sent a message to the CXC council ‘to fix their business, or Guyana will fix it for you’.

“Fix your business right, or we are going to fix it for you. We cannot allow our parents to make the kind of sacrifices they are making to ensure that their children are given the kind of attention and delivery by teachers and at the end of the day they are not rewarded for the sacrifices they made, so CSEC, fix your business or Guyana will fix it for you.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the union raised concerns with the council regarding the readiness for the exam. The General Secretary, a current Member of Parliament for the opposition party, indicated that the CXC committee declared that all measures were in place for the exam a few months ago.

Students continued to voice their concerns over the results and called on the examination council to review the results.

“We were given all of the political talks from CXC and its entire board and here we are now with our children who having worked so hard during all of the crisis that we would have had, during the pandemic, and after working so hard, our children are now are being disenfranchised and are being given willy nilly grades,” Mcdonal said.

Several schools in Guyana, including the nation’s top-ranking high school, Queens College, have already disapproved of the results.

The government of Guyana is currently investigating this matter.