Eleven Guyana Defence Force (GDF) scholarship awardees are due to travel soon to the People’s Republic of China to begin their studies.
The Ministry of the Presidency on Wednesday said the 11 Second Lieutenants will be pursuing studies in the fields of Industrial, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Industrial, Electronic Information Engineering, Mechatronic Engineering, Bio-engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering and Technology on five-year scholarships.
President David Granger met with the awardees on Wednesday afternoon at the Ministry of the Presidency and he highlighted that the army’s technical corps – the Air Corps, Engineer Corps, Intelligence Corps, and Signal Corps as well as the Coast Guard – are being improved and retooled, as part of its ongoing restructuring and reorganisation.
