The Albion/Port Mourant Estate of the Guyana Sugar Corporation on Thursday distributed bursary awards to children/wards of employees of the estate who were successful at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment Examinations. The awards represented 18 out of 100 being distributed at the various estates across the country. The bursary awardees were each given the sum of $6,000, and are entitled to an additional $1,000 each year for the next five years. This is however dependent on their “satisfactory attendance and performance” in school.
The estate’s Human Resources Manager Vemen Walter, in making clear the criteria for continual payment of the bursary,
