New executive urged to revive UG students society

UG’s Internal Auditor Quincy Bourne (left) handing over the keys of the University of Guyana Student Society’s office to newly-elected president Richard Rambarran on Friday. (Photo by Arian Browne)

Vice-Chancellor Jacob Opadeyi on Friday urged the newly-elected president and members of the University of Guyana Students Society (UGSS) to be an active society that will go down in the annals of history as having done something good for the university.

“In my years here, the student society has been very dormant. We want you to do something, I want to see the student society raising funds, you owe the society that…you don’t pay school fees, you pay lesson fees here, the taxpayer covering all the cost, so in return you want to give something back…I want under your leadership to identify one project that when we come back here in ten years we can say that we did this during my time,” Opadeyi told the gathering at the installation of the new UGSS Executive Council at the Turkeyen Campus’ Education Lecture Theatre.

Opadeyi noted that the low level of attendance by the faculty representatives was not good and that the