Wednesday, nearly 500 heads of private schools in Grand Goave and Petit Goave, beneficiaries of the Universal Schooling Program Free and Compulsory (PSUGO), which are currently being trained at the School of Brothers of the Sacred heart of Petit-Goave, organized a sit-in to ask the Ministry of Education to pay the third installment of their subsidy.

These school officials are threatening to disrupt the back to school in the case the Ministry does not feed into their account "contrary to the announcement of the Ministry https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-9513-haiti-education-payment-of-the-3rd-tranche-of-funds-of-psugo.html , we have not received the third payment on our bank account. The Ministry must follow his word. By next week, we will take to the streets to demand the payment of school fees."

Recall that on Tuesday, the Ministry had indicated in a note concerning the payment of the third installment that "Operations are completed for the Department of the West" while stressing that "only schools where no irregularities were found during the audit, that is to say, among other things: that the real effective of schools are consistent compared to the numbers reported initially, will receive their due, until the Ministry decides on cases with irregularities."

It is statistically impossible that all these 500 directors are in an irregular situation and the Ministry should quickly examine the cause of these protests, so that the school year scheduled for October 1, does not begin on a sour note and disorder.

HL/ HaitiLibre / Guyto Mathieu (Correspondant Petit-Goâve)