For the first time Guyana has produced the region’s top Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) performer in Cecil Cox, of Queen’s College, who in 2013 was adjudged the region’s best science student at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Examinations (CSEC).
Cox has, with this award, achieved two significant milestones. Not only is he the first Guyanese student to be awarded the Dennis Irvine Prize for most outstanding performance at CAPE, but according to a well-placed education source he is the first student in the region to have been awarded for