Jun 19, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – Every school day in the city, in almost every ward, you can see scores of school children – dressed in their uniforms – ambling to school after 9:00am. The casualness of these children suggests that punctuality is no longer important to them or to their parents.

But it does also raise the question as to what the schools in the city are doing about late attendance. Surely if stern action was being taken against these children, there would have been greater urgency in them trying to get to school on time.