Educator Hermina Rebeiro-Richards attended, taught and administered an overcrowded Santa Rosa Primary School (SRPS) in Santa Rosa, Moruca, Region One (Barima/Waini) but by the time she retires next April after more than 30 years in the teaching profession, she hopes that the decades-old issue of overcrowding would be a thing of the past.
“The Region One administration has constructed a new building with four classrooms, which is yet to be handed over. At a recent headteachers’ meeting, the administration promised that furniture will be coming very soon from Mabaruma. We are very short of furniture so we cannot move into the new building… That building will solve the problem of overcrowding for now,” she told Stabroek Weekend.
The 54-year-old Rebeiro-Richards is the longest serving substantive headteacher of the school. At present, she has been there 14 years.