Differently-abled but not unable

By Kizzy Coleman Author Jo Franz once said, “Take a limitation and turn it into an opportunity”. Living for the past eleven years of her life, being visually impaired, 41-year-old Odessa Blair, a graduate of the University of Guyana is the embodiment of that quote. In 2008, at the age of 30, the then-pregnant mother of one was hospitalized with what was believed to be pregnancy complications. Following several medical tests, Blair was diagnosed with Hypertension. Hypertension is another name for high blood pressure which causes severe complications, increasing the…

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Education Ministry flagged by Auditor General over textbooks procurement

A report from the Auditor General has flagged the Education Ministry for not complying “in all material respects” with the relevant Acts, regulations and policies regarding the procurement of textbooks in 2016. A “Compliance Audit of the Procurement of Textbooks by the Ministry of Education for the year ended 31 December 2016” was conducted after the Auditor General’s 2015 Annual Report found, among other things, that contracts were not signed and textbooks were not delivered. The report on the Compliance Audit of the Procurement of Textbooks by the Education Ministry,…

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