NEW GPC awards successful NGSA children of employees with bursaries

The NEW Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (NEW GPC) on Friday awarded several children of its employees, who were successful at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), with bursaries for their performance at the examination.

The awardees were Phyllisia Scott; Amiya Bhagelu; Lakshana Rambarran; Talia Lovell; Naomi Hunte and Kelsi Mc Kenzie.
For five years, each child will receive $50,000, given that they perform with a minimum pass rate of 60 per cent each term. This is also extended for those who choose to further their education at the sixth form level.
Hampers are usually handed over with school items but since the COVID pandemic, devices are also gifted.
Human Resources Assistant Kittesha Griffith shared, “It is the company’s endeavour that these students would use all of what is being awarded to strive your best to achieve what you are meant to achieve.”
Company Secretary Sean Noel indicated that this bursary is also a motivational tool for students to excel and extend their best effort.
“One of the critical things about these awards is not just that it gives you a cash donation, but it is the incremental motivational tool that helps you to decide that if you continue to better yourself, good things will follow,” Noel stated.
As they step into the new secondary education level, the Company Secretary charged the awardees to make good decisions that will positively impact their lives.
“You must develop an inquiring mind…At the end of the day, your aim is to become an improved person, a better person at the end of your schooling. We hear that the experiences are invaluable as you go through life and the friendships that you form are invaluable so those things must be at the top of your focus – developing good friendships.”
Former bursary awardee, Marvin Scott also advised the awardees to be their greatest asset and choose how they want to learn throughout the next five years.
“I attended St Stanislaus College through sixth form. Most time, you will hear the sky is the limit and that is fine. That is hard to believe but you really are going to be your greatest asset. The only thing that is going to keep you back will be yourself,” Scott shared.