The Ministry of the Presidency (MoTP) yesterday said that no state funds were used to purchase bicycles, boats or buses which have been deployed since 2015 around the country to transport schoolchildren.
In a statement, MoTP was responding to the editorial in yesterday’s Stabroek News which had among other things criticised the handing out of bikes to schoolchildren at a Rose Hall event where candidates for A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) at upcoming Local Government Elections were also introduced.
The MoTP statement said that in 2015, President David Granger launched the Public Education and Transportation Service (PETS), which was popularly known as the Three Bs’ Initiative, to enable equal access to education to all children.