Despite an appeal for normalcy from hospitalised University of Guyana (UG) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Jacob Opadeyi, university staffers continued a sit-in yesterday, while the student leadership urged a boycott of classes until their concerns are addressed.
A day after Opadeyi announced that classes would resume after a week-long sit-in, staff and students resolv-ed to continue to press to have their demands addressed.
At a meeting with students at the George Walcott Lecture Theatre (GWLT) at the Turkeyen Campus yesterday morning, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Elizabeth Ramlall disclosed that Opadeyi was hospitalised. After persistent follow-up enquiries, Ramlall added that he was hospitalised at the Caribbean Heart Institute.
However, she read a prepared address from Opadeyi, seeking to explain the current constraints faced by the university administration and the need for lecturers to work more hours, while appealing for a “return to normalcy” to create an enabling environment to resolve the problems.
“I ask for the sake of our students…, let us return to normalcy,