 caribbean airlines supports ug research as part of new partnership caribbean airlines supports ug research as part of new partnership caribbean airlines supports ug research as part of new partnership webmaster wed 12052018 122 efforts to bolster research at the university of guyana ug recently were boosted by caribbean airlines cal which underwrote attendance by several ug computer scientists at the 2018 caribbean academic of sciences conference which was held in jamaica the fourmember team comprised three female computer scientists some of whom received their firstever invitations to showcase their research at the prestigious academic gathering the cal support follows a meeting between vicechancellor professor ivelaw griffith with ceo of cal mr garvin madera and cal guyana country manager mr carl stuart about formalising a partnership between the airline and the university the meeting was facilitated by ug education resource ambassador captain gerry gouveia ceo of roraima airways according to mr madera caribbean airlines is happy to support the university of guyana in facilitating the travel of four academics to attend the caribbean academy of sciences conference in jamaica as the region s leading air carrier our corporate social responsibility programmes positively impact the communities we serve he also noted that caribbean airlines enjoys a legacy of cooperation with the government and people of guyana and the guyanese diaspora in providing consistent safe and reliable service we look forward to building on this relationship in the future vicechancellor griffith remarked i m ecstatic with the reception by ceo madera of my proposal to establish a broad partnership which will include travel support for staff and students discount travel for the new petroleum engineering degree programmes being developed with the university of the west indies and the university of trinidad and tobago and sponsorship and discount travel for the conferences being planned for next year ug and cal expect to formalise their partnership soon with a formal agreement the vicechancellor also stated that during 2019 the university will be hosting the second diaspora entrepreneurship conference the caribbean writers conference and a conference on the guiana shield  ug in brief with a current enrollment of some 8000 students the university of guyana ug has graduated more than 20000 students who have gone on to successful careers locally regionally and internationally the university is also a major contributor to the national economy and to business and industry established in 1963 on a parttime basis with shared space at queens college ug moved to its own campus at turkeyen in 1970 and expanded in 2000 with the addition of the tain campus it now offers more 116 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including the natural sciences engineering environmental studies forestry urban planning and management tourism studies education creative arts economics law medicine business optometry and nursing several online programmes are available and the ug also offers extramural classes at four locations through its institute of distance and continuing education idce the ug also offers the opportunity for student engagement in debating sports and cultural religious and professional activities  