Great Falls Toshao not sharing bus with ‘non-belongers’

By Jeff Trotman

 

Harold Couchman, Toshao of the Great Falls Amerindian Village, Number 58 is not prepared to share with Demerara Timbers, Mabura Hill and 47 Miles, a bus which the Amerindian Village has obtained through a Presidential Grant.

The matter was discussed at the November statutory meeting of the Region Ten Democratic Council after the Clerk of Council, Yolanda Hilliman read a letter that Couchman had written to Nigel Dharamlall, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs in response to a letter in which the Permanent Secretary had requested that the bus be allowed to transport school children at Mabura Hill, Great Falls and 47 Miles to attend secondary schools in Linden.

Noting that “Education is essential to children’s development,”