Parabara Village gets new nursery school
Jun 12, 2025
The newly built Parabara Nursery School in Region Nine. (Photo courtesy, Ministry of Education)
Kaieteur News – Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, commissioned the newly constructed nursery school in Parabara Village, Region Nine, on Wednesday.
According to information released by the ministry, a new duplex teachers’ accommodation was also commissioned in the community.
The ministry revealed that prior to this, nursery children were housed in a corner of the primary school. “This new school gives both the primary and nursery children child-friendly learning spaces, and this was welcomed by the community. A young teacher from the village of Awarenau is already occupying one of the teachers’ homes, thereby allowing a stronger delivery of education in the village,” the ministry reported.
The ministry stated that under the ‘libraries for primaries programme’, a library has already been established in the village. Additionally, the education ministry said the community of Bashaizon also saw the minister commissioning the first-ever nursery school in the village.
Minister Manickchand has repeatedly noted that, having achieved universal primary education, the intention now is to achieve universal nursery and secondary education.
“What universal means, it means all over. So, all over Guyana, we want nursery-aged children to be able to access nursery schools and nursery education in Guyana is not compulsory as yet, but we have registered the highest enrollment in the Commonwealth Caribbean at more than 85 percent of our nursery age cohort attending nursery school,” she said previously.
The minister added that where there is a gap, it would be where there are not enough schools, and that is mostly in the hinterland regions.
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