Mocha/Arcadia gets ICT hub
online marketing tools such as a Facebook page dedicated to their business or service.
These, the Minister argued are all “opportunities to change, to grow and enjoy the good life.” She explained that the Ministry is aiming to complete the setup of a total of 200 hubs by next year.
Director of the National Data Management Authority (NDMA) Phillip Walcott told the community that they should celebrate their achievement noting that some communities are two years into the process and still not able to launch a completed hub.
He explained that the Ministry is interested not just in establishing but in maintaining them therefore they will be returning to the community to roll out several training programmes later this year.
The programmes are expected to focus on three aspects of the hub. These are the training of the monitoring and management committee in basic managing of equipment, management of volunteers as well as training in various online programmes. He noted that some hubs cease to function for simple reasons such as a person plugging a wire into the wrong socket.
“Sometimes all it needed was rebooting,” he said noting that the aim is to equip each hub to achieve efficiency. Chairman of the Management Committee, Barbara Joyce explained that the hub has been established to help villagers to use technology successfully to develop
themselves. It is designed to offer services to the young and old by providing a modern work space so that they can turn their ideas into successful businesses. It also intends to give students an opportunity to achieve A grades in assignments and help the community as a whole save on travel cost and time when accessing information.
It will offer online services such as emarketing and housing applications. Presently the hub has 20 laptops and 12 volunteers who will manage and monitor operations but help from those with expertise is needed for the provision of computer training classes. an investigation that led them to the boys, who were then between the ages of four and ten.
The police were informed of the situation and after the boys were examined, Ali, who was employed with the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG), was arrested, released on station bail and subsequently charged. Ali was also sent on leave, pending the outcome of the case.
Ali was committed to stand trial in 2014 but shortly after, his lawyer, Nigel Hughes, filed an action in the High Court to have the committal overturned. However, this was rejected by the court.
The mother of the three boys, who is also a member of the Muslim religion yesterday expressed hope that when Ali is recommitted to the High Court that the matter would be heard in a timely manner given all the delays and the time that had pass. “Is since 2014, a judge shoulda hear this matter. We are now in 2018. I am begging that I get an early trial”, she stressed.