Schools in Riohacha suspend classes due to lack of water and PAE - Other Cities - Colombia

A call to the mayor of Riohacha to improve the sanitary and infrastructure conditions of several institutions and educational centers in the District was made by the Association of Education Workers in La Guajira, Asodegua.

With this request they supported the decision to cease activities in several institutions and educational centers in the urban and rural areas of the District.

It is not fair that the Ministry of Education has been here for four years and today we see this panorama that is the product of negligence

Asodegua denounced that the breaches by the Mayor’s Office range from the implementation of the School Feeding Program (PAE) and school transportation, to the hiring of personnel for general services, the permanent water supply, the hiring of teachers and the repair of educational infrastructure.

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“It is not fair that the Ministry of Education has been here for four years and today we see this scenario that is the product of the negligence they had because they did not focus it,” says Sildana Deluque, president of Asodegua.

One of the institutions whose infrastructure is in poor condition is El Chonkay, at its headquarters No. 3 Remedios Morales de Guao. There one of the walls that supports the access gate is cracked and is at risk of falling.

Likewise, there are rooms that are caves for bats, pigeons and rats, taking advantage of the lack of some ceiling tiles. This has generated the spread of nauseating odors and other risks for the community.

Asodegua asked the Secretaries of Education and Health to close the affected classrooms, since the situation has caused several parents to withdraw their children.

Another of the affected sites in El Chonkay is No. 2, Nuestra Señora de la Inmaculada. There the doors of the bathrooms are about to fall and the water service does not arrive.

Management’s response

Regarding these complaints, the Secretary of District Education, Jesús Herrera, confirmed that the general services contract has already been awarded and for next week the awarding of School Transportation and the PAE, respectively, will be carried out.

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Herrera assures that the delays are not due to poor planning, but to problems with the Mayor’s financial software, which did not allow the issuance of availability certificates.

To gain time, the PAE team of the Secretariat began the enlistment stage, carrying out verification activities of each one of the restaurants and school kitchens.

“To see what conditions they are in and what they need, in order to be able to provide the service in the shortest time possible,” said Herrera.

Regarding the lack of water, he pointed out that the problem is registered in eight educational institutions, for which a meeting was scheduled with the operating company of the aqueduct service, the competent areas and the members of the union to make decisions and resolve.

Finally, the official indicated that these days an agreement is being negotiated with Findeter for the improvement of school infrastructure, which should house some 60 educational venues of Riohacha.

ELIANA MEJIA
Special for WEATHER
RIOHACHA

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Mother of a woman raped and murdered in Riohacha asks for justice - Other Cities - Colombia

The mother of Sirley Patricia Britothe woman who was strangled, raped and thrown in a hilly area on the outskirts of Riohacha, asks the authorities to clarify the crime so that justice can be done, since her daughter didn’t deserve to die that way.

There are many questions that go through the head of Danitza Brito Sierra, who lives in the municipality of Albania and arrived as soon as she heard the news.

Today he tries to clarify what happened to him? What did she see? And why did she have that death?

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“That this crime does not go unpunished, because my daughter was killed very ugly, that way a human being is not killed, and one woman less, because they did too much evil to my daughter, that is not justified,” she maintains.

They last saw her at five
at dawn dancing in the middle of the street

He says that he was a couple of hers and he were not a couple. He did not live with her, nor did he sleep in her house. Besides, he had his wife in the same neighborhood. He cannot say that he was a femicide because he was not her partner

La ‘Negra’, as they affectionately called her, had gone out on Saturday night to a party around his residence located in the Lomas de Trupillo urbanization, together with three men of Venezuelan origin who apparently reside in the sector.

His relatives assure that he returned around two in the morning to change his clothes and went out again. Her neighbors remember that the last time they saw her was at five in the morning dancing in the middle of the street.

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Hours later, the city was surprised by the discovery of the body of an unidentified woman at kilometer 6 on the road that connects with Valledupar, about three kilometers from her residence.

The news spread like wildfire and reached the ears of her relatives, who made her a party.

There is a captured

…this person would have had sexual acts with the victim and then murdered her. He tried to hide the fact, but the community gave timely notice of what happened to prosecute him

In a quick action, the authorities captured on Monday in the center of Riohacha José Gregorio Plata González, 25, who is being accused of having promoted death by mechanical asphyxiation and he would be one of those who had gone looking for her.

“Apparently, this person would have had sexual acts with the victim and then murdered her. He tried to hide the fact, but the community gave timely notice of what happened to prosecute him, ”said the Guajira Police command after her capture.

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His mother, who has not been able to speak to the authorities about what happened, points out that apparently they are trying to make it appear that it was a case of femicide.

“He says that he was a couple of hers and he was not a couple. He did not live with her, nor did he sleep in her house. Besides, he had his wife in the same neighborhood. Why is he going to say that he did it? He cannot say that he was a femicide because he was not her partner, ”he points out.

Legal medicine opinion

Danitza maintains that the three people who searched for her must know who is responsible for her death.

Although he doesn’t know the legal medicine opinion Officially, those who have been linked to the issue have assured that she apparently received several blows and was raped on multiple occasions.

“The man from the funeral home told me that she had semen from several people, so she was not raped by a single man, several people raped her,” he said.

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Danitza was unable to see her daughter, nor to hold a wake for her as is customary, because her body was in an advanced state of decomposition, for which she was buried immediately.

Now she asks for the help of the community to clarify the death of the “Negra”, so that her case does not go unpunished, she assures that her daughter was not bad, she was good and everyone who could help did so.

Sirley, 40, was the eldest of two sisters, leaves four children, three minors and was dedicated to selling food in the new market in Riohacha.

Eliana Mejia Ospino
Special for Weather
Riohacha

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Attorney General's Office investigates mishandling of the PAE in Riohacha - Other Cities - Colombia

In its preventive function, the Attorney General’s Office questioned the mayor of Riohacha, José Ramiro Bermúdez, for not starting the provision of food and school transportation services in 2022, after the return to classes of more than 50,000 students.

During a field visit carried out on February 7, officials from the control body confirmed that Both programs were not started in the different educational establishments of Riohacha.
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Children in class, but dining rooms closed

“It was found that the school canteens are closed and the students do not receive the food service, in the same way it was possible to verify that the school transport service did not start either,” said the Regional Attorney of La Guajira Alfredo Moisés Ropain, in the letter sent.

The Public Ministry requested, for the second time, a copy of the contracts made by the District administration and the operators of the School Feeding Plan service, both for the urban and rural areas.

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It also required the list of the operators that will provide the school dining service to the ethno-educational institutions and cedes with their respective contacts.

“We are concerned as the Public Ministry that it has not been complied with, as expected,” said the Attorney General.

Riohacha had already activated a preventive monitoring action since last January 26, so that the start of the 2022 school year could be fulfilled and guarantee these rights to children who attend school.

On that occasion, the Attorney General’s Office required the mayor and his Secretary of Education, Jesús David Herrera, to provide a detailed and urgent report, in which the operator that will provide the school feeding service and his legal representative would be announced.

“We have been involved in this activity for more than 15 days, verifying and requesting information, because we do not co-manage nor are we responsible for spending, we verify that the territorial entity complies with its legal and constitutional obligation to start it within the legal term so that these services are presented to the different students”, pointed out the Attorney General.

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Finally, he indicated that he hopes this situation will be corrected as soon as possible, because otherwise it will be up to him to close the preventive activity and give him a disciplinary transfer, so that each public servant responds for the responsibilities that he assists.

He stressed that despite the fact that the Public Ministry prioritized surveillance in Riohacha, verification is carried out in the rest of the department.

El Tiempo tried to establish contact with the Riohacha mayor’s office to find out its position on the issue, without being able to obtain any response.

Eliana Mejia Ospino
Special for Weather
Riohacha