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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Bar owner sells channa to help students

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1705 days ago
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From left, Std 4 teacher Lyndell Beepot abd principal Sandra Chan Chow, of Palmiste Government School, with students Karishma Harrilal, Anjanie Hussein and Jadon Mc Daniel, Harrylal Sukhdeo and his granddaughter Christiana Sookdeo at the handover of the devices

From left, Std 4 teacher Lyndell Beepot abd principal Sandra Chan Chow, of Palmiste Government School, with students Karishma Harrilal, Anjanie Hussein and Jadon Mc Daniel, Harrylal Sukhdeo and his granddaughter Christiana Sookdeo at the handover of the devices

Shastri Boodan

Shas­tri Boodan

Har­ry­lal Sukhdeo used mon­ey he earned from sell­ing boiled chan­na to buy mo­bile de­vices for stu­dents at three rur­al schools.

Sukhdeo, who op­er­ates Fat’s Restau­rant and Bar in Palmiste Vil­lage, Long­denville, said while his bar busi­ness was not do­ing well be­cause of COVID-19, his sales of boiled chan­na re­mained prof­itable.

On Wednes­day he do­nat­ed mo­bile de­vices to stu­dents of the Palmiste Gov­ern­ment School. Sukhdeo said his grand­chil­dren at­tend Todds Road RC School and Ca­paro RC School and teach­ers there told him sev­er­al of the stu­dents did not have mo­bile de­vices to con­nect to on­line class­es.

Sukhdeo, who reg­u­lar­ly con­tributes to the rur­al com­mu­ni­ties that sup­port his busi­ness, ap­pealed to oth­er busi­ness­es in the com­mu­ni­ty to as­sist the needy chil­dren.

He said there are no ma­jor busi­ness­es in com­mu­ni­ties lo­cat­ed along the Bras­so Ca­paro Val­ley Road and the clo­sure of Ca­roni (1975) Lim­it­ed put a ma­jor­i­ty of res­i­dents there on the bread­line, Many of them have since had to de­pend on Cepep, URP for em­ploy­ment.

Nisha Ram­jat­tan, whose daugh­ter, Kar­ish­ma, re­ceived one of the de­vices said she was grate­ful for the do­na­tion. Ram­jat­tan said her fam­i­ly does not have an in­ter­net con­nec­tion and she has to spend up to $100 for a five-day da­ta plan.

The fam­i­ly lives at Thomp­son Road, Palmiste, and Kar­ish­ma who is in Std 5 and was the school’s top ath­lete for 2019 and 2020, is one of many stu­dents in the com­mu­ni­ty in need of mo­bile de­vices.


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