‘CAPE is your next best investment after CSEC’ – 2022 top student says

The Saraswati Vidya Niketan honoured Atishta Seenarine, the CAPE 2022 Top student for her accomplishment during a simple ceremony held in the school’s Main Hall at Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara. (Photo: Priya Manickchand FB/ March 10, 2023)

Also present at the ceremony was Minister of Education Priya Manickchand who disclosed that in order to ensure a larger number of students perform well the ministry has entered in talks with the Saraswati Vidya Niketan school to discuss ways in which they can be a replica in the public school system.

“Even if only as an example that once the metrics line up. Good leadership, attentive students, parents who are engaged, involved or at least interested and allowing the school to engaged and involved at will, and teachers who are satisfied. When those line up how success is guaranteed,” Manickchand said.

The education minister said she is hopeful that the process can begin before the end of September at one of the public schools on the West Coast of Demerara.

“All in the interest of ensuring larger numbers of children do well. Our interest is to make sure every single child, African or Indian or Amerindian or poor or rich, male or female whether from the interior or the coastland, wherever you are, whatever circumstances you have emerged from, that every child is prepared to participate meaningfully and benefit from the Guyana that is unfolding before us,” she stated.

Seenarine, who gained 18 Grade Ones, was named the Caribbean’s most outstanding CAPE student in December 2022.