The Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) has indicated that the parents of the six-year-old who was disqualified from the Calypso segment of the Children’s Mashramani Competition have no desire to pursue the matter further.
Chief Executive Officer of the RCC Andre Gonsalves said he paid a visit to little Ezeka Minty and her parents, Ezra and Adele Minty, at their Berbice residence, but they stated that they did not want to participate in any investigations related to the incident. Gonsalves said the RCC respects the family’s decision and reveal-ed plans to honour Ezeka in a different category that deals with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, separate from the Mashramani competition.
“We have categories we can recognise someone for so the commission will meet on the 29th of April. During that meeting, under any other business, we will discuss recognising Minty under the category the commission decides. And again, it will not be anything to do with children’s Mashramani,” he told this newspaper on Thursday last.