What's the Prez doing?

The GoG should track down the financial sponsors and charge them with promoting terrorism.

 

From the action of the residents, clearly they are not in favor of the extremists actions.  The Govt and security forces should clamp down much more forcibly.

Date: 10th August 2012          Priority: For immediate release
Subject: A Call for Action to Address Performance in Mathematics The performance in the May/June 2012 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Mathematics examination has resulted in a call for action in the region to address deficiencies in the subject.
This year, 33 per cent of the entries for Mathematics achieved Grades I – III, which are the acceptable grades at CSEC. This is a further decline in performance when compared with the last two years. In 2011, 35 per cent earned similar grades and in 2010 the figure stood at 41 per cent.
Reporting on the performance of the subject to the Final Awards Committee, the Subject Awards Committee (SAC) said it was “deeply concerned about the quality of work produced by candidates at this level.” “Topics such as the range, perimeter, and profit and loss that should be covered at the lower secondary level were not fully understood,” the SAC reported. On one question which tested perimeter and area, 36 per cent of the candidates scored no marks. Similarly, on a question which tested algebra, 33 per cent of the candidates scored zero.
The SAC has called on the region to address the issue of teaching and performance in Mathematics by re-organising its Mathematics programme, supporting teacher training and facilitating access to instructional resources. Dr Didacus Jules, Registrar of CXC outlined some measures CXC is implementing to address the issue: -        The establishment of an expert working group to recommend comprehensive changes in the teaching, learning and assessment of Mathematics -        Encouraging Participating Countries to use CCSLC Mathematics as a foundation programme for developing the competencies for mastery of Mathematics -        Providing teacher training in more effective syllabus delivery and SBA management, -        Strengthening of the Mathematics content on its free interactive online portal www.notesmaster.com -        Providing study guides in core subject areas in CSEC and CAPE including Mathematics, published in collaboration with Nelson Thornes Performance For the third consecutive year, overall performance in the May/June examination has declined. This year 62 per cent of the candidate entries achieved Grades I – III, the acceptable grades; this compared with 66 per cent in 2011 and 69 per cent in 2010. Of the 62 per cent achieving acceptable grades, 11.30 gained Grade I, 22.39 gained Grade II and 28.46 per cent gained Grade III. Thirty-five subjects were offered for the May/June examination this year: performance improved on nine subjects, declined on 19, remained the same on six and one new subject, Additional Mathematics was offered for the first time. Fifty-eight per cent of the entries for Additional Mathematics achieved acceptable grades. The most improved performances were seen on Electrical and Electronic Technology and Mechanical Engineering Technology. This year 65 per cent of entries for Electrical and Electronic Technology achieved acceptable grades, this compares very favourably with the 44 per cent which achieved the same grades in 2011, representing a 21 per cent improvement. For Mechanical Engineering Technology, there was a 13 per cent improvement, with 69 per cent achieving Grades I – III compared with 56 per cent last year. There was a six per cent improvement in performance on Integrated Science, with 80 per cent of entries achieving acceptable grades compared with 74 per cent in 2011. Clothing and Textiles also registered improved performance this year. Eighty-six per cent of entries achieved acceptable grades this year compared with 81 per cent last year. Forty per cent of the entries for Information Technology achieved Grade I and 31.42 per cent achieved Grade II. This combined for an overall improved performance this year when compared with 2011. Overall, 83 per cent of the entries gained acceptable grades compared with 79 per cent last year. Electronic Document Preparation and Management (EDPM) and Theatre Arts both saw a three per cent improvement in performance. On the case of EDPM it went from 85 per cent last year to 88 per cent this year, while Theatre Arts, performance improved from 87 per cent in 2011 to 91 per cent this year. Both Principles of Business and Physics registered a two per cent improvement in performance. For Principles of Business, performance improved from 78 per cent in 2011 to 80 per cent this year; while for Physics, performance improved from 74 per cent in 2011 to 76 per cent this year. Twenty per cent of the entries for Physics achieved Grade I. Physics was the only natural science subject with improved performance this year. While performance on Biology was satisfactory at 70 per cent, it was below that of last year which was 73 per cent. In the case of Chemistry, 58 per cent of entries achieved acceptable grades compared with 64 per cent in 2011. The majority of the acceptable grades were at the lower levels – 28 per cent at Grade III and 17 per cent at Grade II. Physical Education and Sport was the best performing subject overall, with 97 per cent of the entries achieving acceptable grades, the same level of performance as in 2011 and 2010. Forty-seven per cent of entries for PES achieved Grade I.
English After an upward trend for the last three years, performance on English A has declined significantly this year. Forty-seven per cent of the entries for English A achieved Grades I – III this year compared with 67 per cent in 2011, representing a 20 per cent decline.
This year was the first examination since the revised syllabus took effect. The Subject Awards Committee attributed the decline to less than satisfactory performance on Paper 02, the Essay Paper. The SAC noted that this decline was most obvious in the summary and comprehension questions. The SAC has suggested that teaching of the language must enable students to move away from prescribed and rehearsed answers seen in some questions, to the point where they can effectively and appropriately use rhetorical devices that enrich expression and facilitate comprehension. On English B, performance also declined when compared with 2011, but not as dramatic as on English A. This year, 68 per cent of entries achieved acceptable grades, compared with 71 per cent in 2011. This was the first year the revised syllabus was being examined. The Subject Awards Committee reported that candidates’ performance fell down mainly on the Poetry Profile, and this decline affected the overall performance of the subject. Performance on the other two Profiles, Drama and Prose Fiction remained relatively stable. Growth Both candidate entries and subject entries continue to grow, with both registering just over a two per cent increase. One hundred and fifty-six thousand, nine hundred and sixty-eight candidates registered for CSEC examinations this year, compared with 153, 120 candidates in 2011, an increase of 3, 848 candidates. The adult population, 19 years and older represents more than one third of the candidate population, with 35 per cent of candidates in that age group. This year, 637, 510 subject entries were submitted for the 35 subjects offered. This is 16, 415 more than those submitted in 2011. For the second consecutive year, Mathematics has overtaken English A as the subject with the largest entries – 105, 872. English A has 101, 032; Social Studies is third with 55, 896; Principles of Business fourth with 38, 461 and Human and Social Biology fifth with 35, 100 entries. Physical Education and Sport was the subject with the largest subject entry percentage increase. This year 8, 474 entries were submitted, compared with 7, 040 in 2011- an increase of 20 per cent. Human and Social Biology and Mathematics also recorded appreciable increases. HSB had 35, 100 entries this year compared with 33, 400 in 2011, or five per cent increase; while Mathematics moved from 101, 268 entries in 2011 to 105, 872 entries this year or a four per cent increase. For further information, please contact Cleveland Sam, CXC Public Information Officer, (246) 227 1892 or via e-mail at CSam@cxc.org.

We all know who the financial sponsors are!

Who are these informed insiders who know these things?

They were seen instigating the protestors. When the arsonist squeals, we will soon know.

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I really don't know who the financial sponsors are. Please tell me.

 

They should not burn the schools. It makes no sense. If the government can call in the opposition, I am sure a workable solution can be met. The PPP cannot do this alone since in a divided country as Guyana they seen a large percentage of the population as lacking in legitimacy. They all have to combine to diffuse the situation.

Its the AFC who are being the obstructionist in everything.  The PNC certainly seems more accommodating.  The AFC rejected almost any offer by the PPP while the PNC was willing to work with it.  The extremists in Linden took advantage of the AFC's position to introduce a hardline stance and inject mayhem.  This, by extension, made the AFC the political arm of the extremists.

 

Great for a political movement which launched itself as the middle party, the 3rd and reasonable alternative.  They have now positioned themselves as the political outlier.

The fat fool decided he would sit in GT and make demands then march up to the troubled city and dictate further. He needed to have been there the morning after issuing apologies for the death and setting the tone for conciliation. But that has never been their way. Theirs is the dictatorial way so this crisis continues.

 

Contrary to the fools here, no one controls a protest  after it passes a certain threshold and turns into a mob. I remember there was at an anti Klan rally in DC where in short order, the entire crowd which were at one instant chanting anti klan slogans, moved as an organic whole into serious looting and destruction.

 

 

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I don't know which extremist you are mentioning. Who are these people? Are they in the executive? I am asking this question because I have had no role in the AFC after the election. So I don't know who is instigating this in Linden. What I know is police shot and killed innocent protestors. What I know also is the economic cost will be great since these things will need to be rebuilt and I can never accept burning down schools.

Your racists distaste for the PPP is clear for all to see. Ramotar should NOT visit amidst mayhem and blockades.  When some semblance of order is restored, he should visit with the Reps of the PNC and have a meeting with concerned citizens.  Extremists, looters and arsonists should not be granted any forum.

 

The GoG should not accede to blackmail and undue pressure.

If you were following the story from day one, the police talked about the "known extremists" elements who escalated the protest into violence and mayhem.  It was also reported by the police and locals that "outsiders" have taken over some aspects of the protests.

You are a rather careless man! Everyone has a right to have their voice heard and their demands addressed. That is not obstructionist but negotiation. Did you call the PPP arrogant for unilaterally imposing these increases when they knew the outcome would be rejection and protests?

 

The AFC are handling themselves with poise and grace and representing their opinions well. They have not burned buildings or shot anyone or asked anyone to behave in a criminal manner.

 

Given the intransigence or of Ramator to meet these residents and address them as their president he courts more trouble. The ball is squarely in his court.

 

To this point he is a lout for having agents act on his behalf to demean the citizens, by calling them freeloaders and lazy. Those on NCN and their social media off shoot, New Media group work at his behest.

 

He if he cared could stop  the ominous undertones of racism embedded in these claims immediately.

How can the protesters get respect when they are burning Churches and Schools?

 

This is just anarchy and mayhem!

 

it seems that the pontificators on the GNI are on "time-out"

 

 

I am taking a timeout for the Mets Game tonite

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I still don't get the answer who are these outsiders?

Well, if the locals and police don't know them why you ask me.  These outsiders are working with the known "extremists elements". 

Baseman: "

If you were following the story from day one, the police talked about the "known extremists" elements who escalated the protest into violence and mayhem.  It was also reported by the police and locals that "outsiders" have taken over some aspects of the protests."

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You know this is part of Guyana's problem. The police never knows yet they talk about the outsiders. And we have criminal #1 coming on this board and being allowed by admin to say AFC and PNC paid to butn the buildings.

It seems the AFC did not know who they working for when they instigated the extremists.  Maybe the arsonist will say who paid them and shed some light.  I don't say AFC or PNC did, I think the extremists di but they used the AFC's position to legitimize their message.

Amral knows that girl is a loose canon with a filthy mouth and a flighty head. He works hard and never has the time to moderate this board. We have not had a good moderator since Rabid quit some seven years now.

 

I would not worry with what she said. You already met her over on roop's site as The Amazon. She is a nut.

I'm thinking it's the other way around.

YEAH BABY. BURN BABY BURN THE ZOO ON FIRE!!

OOps..looks like yuh had some ball'a'fiah fuh lunch...now yuh kakahole on fiah....

Another successful AFC/PNC campaign. I keep telling people that when they give funds to the AFC or PNC, the money is used for sinister purposes like funding criminal activity. 

Do you?  So can you tell us why the PPP hasnt arrested them.  Clearly encouraging the destruction of property is a crime.

Baseman the only "strong" base that the AFC had after the last election was in berbice.  What ever support they had in Linden, theyt lost for the reasons which I outlined last year (seen as a bougie party and the mistake of an almost 100% focus on the Indian vote).

 

So can you explain to me how the AFC has the credibility and infrastructure to mount such a strong response in Linden?

 

What is clear is that Lindeners have been frustrated for decades and a sizeable group decided to react.  Since the violence by the police against Lindeners it might well be true that an "extremist" element has taken over.

 

The issue for you will be whther this element has anything to do with either trhe AFC or APNU and whether it feels beholden to either.

 

The only way to isolate such a group is for the stakeholders to do two things.

 

1. Develop a solid economic development plan for Linden

 

2.  Deal with the African/Indian ethnic security dilemma.  As of now any racial animosity seems directed not to Indians at large, but to a govt dominated by the Indian elite.  WE HAVE YET TO HEAR EVIDENCE FROM INDIANS LIVING IN LINDEN THAT THEY HAVE BEEN TARGETTED FOR ATTACK!  What is clear is that the reasction to this by BOTH Indians and Africans comes from their perceptions of their  ethnic reality in Guyana.

Berbicians burnt down a police station several years back.  NO one was arrested and Jagdeo immediately met them.

 

Continue to demonize an entire town and the problem gets worse.  Gate way to the interior. The govt cannnot let this issue continue, but their response to date made what might have bene amistake by an overzealous policeman into a huge crisis.

 

Ramotar should ahve immediately gone to Linden.

 

Shoot down more people and the issue might well go nationwide.......is this what you want?

First of all, who is surprised at what's happening? Second of all when certain political elements riled up the Lindeners, did they not expect this? What is happening in Linden was carefully orchestrated.

Do you think the people who died at enmore ought to have expected to die when the PPP riled them up to protest against a perceived injustice? Is it because these are black peoples grievances we are not to be "surprised" it is attended by violence?

 

Note at Albion the blocked the road, burned the police station and ran the security personnel out of the village. The Party immediately sent in its crisis team and in a few days it was all over.

 

Here, ramorat sent his propaganda team on the internet to highlight the freeloading ways of the Negroes. He insisted the political personalities with the protesters were crooks and posted a list of the crimes they supposedly were party to.

 

Meanwhile the crooks who created pradoville on supposed ministerial salaries, oversaw monumental failures, refuse to detail what they did with state assets over 10 years, have their children and close relatives  in leech jobs but yet we are to expect the worse of others and not from these crooks. They even have the gall to say the protesters murdered themselves!

As I have said from day one when Gerhardt was posting here asking for support for Linden, I warned him that he was being used as a pawn in a bigger political game. He did not listen.

Carefully orchestrated by the PPP. Say it. Of course you are most keen to focus the blame on the opposition parties, but the overwhelming evidence does not back up a single claim by the PPP regime or its blatant racist supporters on GNI. Why are educated people like you continuing to portray Linden as a racially tense area, and that the opposition is leading the charge against the corrupt regime you are clearly part of? I have not found a single honest Lindener who has pointed at racial or political motives behind the riots.

You guys from black bush polder should educate yourself to the facts in Linden and stop peddling lies and stirring racial hatred. I know that is your real aim and goal, but Lindeners ain't stupid. That includes all colours.