President meets students studying overseas

President David Granger, addressing the gathering at Minister of State, Joseph Harmon’s (right) home last night. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

President David Granger, last evening at the residence of the Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, encouraged a group of young Guyanese students studying abroad to return home, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said today.

“We are going to move mountains to enable young Guyanese to come back and have a stake in their native land,” he said.

Speaking at the first international student networking event, which was organised by the Minister of State and Simona Broomes, daughter of the Minister within the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes, the President said that the ‘good life’ in Guyana beckons people who are entrepreneurial, adventurous and committed to this country.