<p dir="ltr">The University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC), in collaboration with the Nand&nbsp; Persaud Group of Companies, recently conducted a Basic Microbiology Training&nbsp; Workshop which saw fifty-six (56) persons, including biology teachers, staff from the&nbsp; Hydrometeorological Centre, Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and National&nbsp; Agriculture, Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) benefiting.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">The capacity building sessions were held on October 25 – 28, 2021 at the Soil and Plant&nbsp; Testing Laboratory located at the University’s Johns Science Centre. The event was&nbsp; organised and facilitated by the Director of the University of Guyana Berbice Campus,&nbsp; Professor Gomathinayagam Subramanian, with support from the Ministry of&nbsp; Agriculture, the Ministry of Education and GuySuCo.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">At the opening ceremony, remarks were made on behalf of the Minister of Agriculture by, Dr. Richard Blair; UG’s Chancellor, Professor Edward Green; UG’s Vice Chancellor, XI, Professor Paloma Mohamed Martin; Dean of the Faculty of&nbsp; Agriculture, Dr. Lawrence Lewis; Director of the Agriculture Centre for GuySuCo, Mr.&nbsp; Gavin Ramnarain; Chief Executive Officer of the Nand Persaud Group of Companies,&nbsp; Mr. Mohindra Persaud and Chairman of Region 6, Mr. David Armogan.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">In their remarks, the various speakers lauded the initiative and urged that participants&nbsp; use the skills and expertise gained to contribute to national development and to begin&nbsp; to think about developing their capacity further to link with regional and global&nbsp; developments.&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">At the closing ceremony, remarks were made by UG’s Vice-Chancellor, IX, Professor&nbsp; Paloma Mohamed Martin; Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Dr. Troy Thomas;&nbsp; Director of the Agriculture Centre for GuySuCo, Mr. Gavin Ramnarain; Chief&nbsp;&nbsp;Executive Officer of the Nand Persaud Group of Companies, Mr. Mohindra Persaud&nbsp; and two guest speakers – Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, Advisor to the Ministry of Health and&nbsp; Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo, Director General, Ministry of Health.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">In their remarks, the speakers acknowledged the significant impact that UG, in&nbsp; collaboration with one of its major stakeholders, the Nand Persaud Group of&nbsp; Companies is making towards skills training and capacity building and urged the&nbsp; university to continue its role in human resource development.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">Participants expressed their gratitude for the training and indicated that they would&nbsp; like to benefit from more such initiatives in order to build their capacity which would&nbsp; help them to function more efficiently in their area of work.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">To view the closing ceremony kindly click on the link here:&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
https://zoom.us/rec/share/zXnmRm4deAHuBTmlvga2fsDgNEyorgpJLCA_NT5aYn ZhYLmlMfK43hXB5jYwKBY_.4_HKx1sqMIO6QLDd</p>

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<p dir="ltr">Participants from the Microbiology Training along with officials from the University&nbsp; of Guyana Berbice Campus, Nand Persaud Group of Companies, Agriculture Centre&nbsp; for GuySuCo, and the Ministry of Health.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">For Assistance&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">For additional information and support please call UG’s New Help Desk Numbers:&nbsp; Turkeyen Campus Registration Support: 623-1941, 623-1867, 623-1869, 623- 1871,&nbsp;<br />
623-1924, 623-1940, 623-1942, 624-1943, 623-1944, 623-1945, 623-1946, 623-1948,&nbsp; and Berbice Campus Registration Support: 623-1943, 623-1949.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p dir="ltr">All University operations continue under the emergency regulations developed and&nbsp; implemented last semester to address safety under the COVID-19 conditions.&nbsp;</p>

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<p dir="ltr">The University of Guyana is the 58th-year State university of Guyana. It offers 136 &nbsp;programmes in over 60 disciplines online and face-to-face in 8 campuses across &nbsp;Guyana. With a student population of now 10,000, UG has provided education, &nbsp;learning, and research for over 50,000 alumni. The mission of the University is to &nbsp;discover, generate, disseminate and apply knowledge of the highest standard for the &nbsp;service of the community, the nation, and of all mankind within an atmosphere of &nbsp;academic freedom that allows for free and critical inquiry. UG’s forward-thinking &nbsp;Blueprint 2040 is currently setting the course for the University’s future design and &nbsp;institutional response to the changing needs of Guyana.&nbsp;</p>

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