GES wishes BECE candidates good luck

Accra, April 18, GNA - Mr. Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, on Friday wished candidates for the 2008 BECE who begin their papers on Monday "good luck and God's guidance" throughout the examination.

"This is the period of reckoning and I believe in your ability to perform creditably in the examination," he said in a statement released in Accra.

"Indeed your teachers have over the period prepared you adequately for the task," he added. Mr. Bannerman-Mensah urged them to conduct themselves properly in accordance with the rules and regulations governing the examination.

"I implore you to desist from any unacceptable conduct that may have the tendency to bring the examination into disrepute and also bring untold hardship to you, your parents and the community at large," he said.