As we reported on Monday on our website newsroom.gy, the University of Guyana is moving to set up a campus in indigenous Wapichan community of Aishalton in the Rupununi. It’s a historic move for education and indigenous communities, as it will be the first time university education is being taken to an indigenous community anywhere in Guyana and the Caribbean. For years, students from indigenous areas have had to travel to Georgetown for tertiary education, facing challenges like accommodation a

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