The Ministry of Education has pledged to treat the matter of a Venezuelan student from Queenstown Secondary School, who was beaten by some of her schoolmates, as “urgent and serious”.
The incident occurred in the vicinity of the Bank of Guyana on the Avenue of the Republic. In a video that was posted on the Facebook page of a Venezuelans in Guyana group, the young girl was seen being assaulted on all sides by other schoolgirls whilst students from the same school and another school cheered on the bullies.
“Department of Educa-tion, Georgetown is aware of an apparent physical assault on a girl child from the Queenstown Secondary School. The Minister of Education has instructed that the matter be treated as urgent and serious. The public will be updated,” the notice on the ministry’s Facebook page read.