Gya: Students in Cuba acting up

OFFICE of the President, the Ministry of Public Services, the Cuban Ambassador to Guyana and a representative of the Ministry of Higher Education from Cuba yesterday held a meeting with parents of the Guyanese students who are studying in Cuba on scholarships, regarding their behaviour and other issues of interest.

The meeting, at the Umana Yana, saw a large turnout of parents and relatives of the students.

The representative of the Ministry of Higher Education in Cuba, Francisco Martinez, urged parents to visit Cuba and maintain good contact with children who are studying in Cuba.

He spoke of some problems affecting the institution where some students are spending too much money and engaging in unethical behaviour.

In some cases, there have been a rising number of pregnancies within the student body, which is of grave concern to educators, he told the gathering.

One Guyanese student is likely to be sent back to Guyana after it was discovered that she is pregnant.

According to Minister of Public Service, Jennifer Webster, that student will not be allowed to return to Cuba to continue studies because they left under the Guyana/Cuba Special Scholarship Programme to study and not to get pregnant.

Ah, the next generation of Caribbean communists is coming right along.