Over 300 scholarship graduates to return over next few days – first batch of 99 brings agronomists and engineers

Congrats to them all.

CONGRATS. a NEPHEW OF MY WIFE RETURNED AS A mEDICAL dOCTOR. hE MAMA AH CRY WID joy. sHE CALL LAST NIGHT AND I CAN HEAR THE CRYING WHILE WATCHING cpl.

Congrats to them! In addition to the skills they now bring the spirit of communist revolution to Guyana. Most will likely be the next generation of ideological albatrosses on the neck of poor Guyana.

What a BLOODY ASS!!  You SICK BASTARD!!!!

Do not shout my silly little drunken friend. I am merely observing the communist blights in the PPP. They have made life hard for my generation. 

I would rather have DOG SHIT as my friend!!!

I know. I cannot elevate yourself from the dog waste. 

So you see what level you are?? I doubt you will ever know. PEA BRAIN.

The cheap rum is messing your mind to make you accept dog waste as friend. 

It's always a heartening thing to see young people return to Guyana after completing training abroad.

Thanks to the now cash-strapped Cuban government, this large batch of qualified professionals would not have been possible.

I won't agree that these youths were indoctrinated in communism while in Havana. Besides, the social and economic conditions being in such a sorry state these days, our new Guyanese grads certainly won't promote the Cuban model of development.

Still, we owe a debt of gratitude to the Cuban government for providing free university training up to doctorate level to thousands of Guyanese over the past four decades.

One important fact must be pointed out to young JB and others who find fault with Cuban solidarity to Guyanese. The rich and mighty USA, Canada and Britain have never assisted the children of poor Guyanese parents in granting scholarships as Cuba has consistently done.

Why after 50 years of UG we need to send our people to Cuba for sub-standard training? Isn't this a classic symptom of a failed nation? Why can't UG be like UWI? 

Look at the people who went to UG and UWI. You see these people excelled at UWI.

Mr Gilbakka said: "The rich and mighty USA, Canada and Britain have never assisted the children of poor Guyanese parents in granting scholarships as Cuba has consistently done."

In the rich countries they understand there is no such thing as a free lunch. Someone has to pay for sending people to university. It is expensive to have universities as critical as they are. The rich world requires that the student benefitting from university education bear part of the burden by paying for his/her education. Notice I said part since even in the most capitalist America there are many government subsidies and scholarships for university education. Perhaps this is the reason why Guyana's university has failed and why Cuba's is not at the level of the West. The rich world has decided to fund fully primary and secondary education. The rich world has decided to fund fully primary and secondary education. Would these students coming back from communist Cuba understand there is no such thing as a free lunch? Would they be able to set priorities? 

And your point is?

Good question, JB. Why can't UG be like UWI? Because political interference took precedence over free-thinking academic excellence at UG almost from its inception. But it would not be correct to blame the Cuban government for that. They have helped precisely because our university system was inadequate.

I am not blaming the Cuban government. I am angry because we should not have to do this after 50 years since the establishment of UG. Guyana is a failed nation! Here we have a unintelligent Minister partaking in the failure by greeting the students at the airport like when this is some great accomplishment. What stupid lot. They are all stupid and backward like Nehru.

You want see STUPID, IGNORANT AND ILLITERATE, just look into the Mirror or go to Webster Dictionary and look up JB.

Meh Kafee sweet laka sumutoo din marnin. Come on JB give me more reasons to call you a bloody FOOL.

I rest my case! 

Don't be angry, son, or you will end up getting a stroke like me.

Fact is, Guyana's deadlocked PPP-PNC politics has not advanced the interests and welfare of the masses after 47 years of political independence.

The nation is crying out for a new-type political leader and dispensation. Hopefully, young people like you would organize yourselves, study hard and take up the challenge to do what the older politicians have failed to do.

Great advise for the young PUNK Mr Gilbaka.

Most UG graduates are as good as any graduate from UWI. Case in point.. Huckumchand(Parag) the attorney in Guyana. Was a classmate of mine at Line Path Secondary.

Oh we are making changes. I will be voting for the AFC come snap or any election. 

We know that. That is not the main point of my argument. Imagine if these bright young people are exposed to the best training. 

You want to tell me that UG does not afford some of the best training when these bright people go to UWI and excell? I thought UWI is the best in the Caribbean? 

You seem to have a problem figuring out the difference between ability and quality of training. We know Guyanese students have ability. The fact remains the PPP destroyed UG. At UG we have people with bachelor's degree teaching people about to get a bachelor's. Labs are nonexistent. The library is grossly under stocked. They destroyed the medical school also.