-following pact among UG, South Rupununi council, village
The University of Guyana (UG) has extended its reach and range with the turning of the sod for a campus in the South Rupununi village of Aishalton.
In a release yesterday, UG announced that it had inked an agreement with the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) and the Aishalton Village Council for the joint establishment of the Maoka Taawa University of the Forests Campus.
Seven toshaos, along with a number of high-level officials from the 21 villages of the South Rupununi district, regions, as well as officials from UG’s Turkeyen campus, gathered to witness the signing of this “historic and monumental” document and the turning of the sod which officially brought into legal life, the agreement to create the University of Guyana’s Maoka Taawa University of the Forests campus. An event the release described as “a 16-year-old dream of our Indigenous brothers and sisters in the South Rupununi.”