Gya: Shaddick mum on cut tail

Minister Bibi Shadick has declined comment on the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child calling on Guyana to outlaw all corporal punishment.

Guyana is a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Minister within the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, Bibi Shadick had attended the session in Geneva out of which came the recommendation prohibiting corporal punishment in schools and other institutions.

On Thursday when the communique was published, Stabroek News attempted to get a comment from Shadick. However, her secretary told this newspaper that the minister had not read the UN release and asked the reporter to call back. Stabroek News contacted the minister again yesterday, who once again speaking through her secretary, said she was annoyed that Stabroek News carried the release without her comment. She felt that the newspaper could have waited and as such she had nothing to say