GUYANA: Students travel to accept scholarships in Cuba
August 24th, 2006 |
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - About 365 Guyanese students will travel to Cuba next month as part of a program granting scholarships to universities in the communist-run country, an official said Wednesday.
The Cuban government is offering scholarships to 965 students from this South American country over the next three years to study medicine, engineering and other subjects under a pact the two nations renewed in February, Cabinet Secretary Roger Luncheon said.
More than 1,000 scholarship students from other Caribbean countries are currently studying in Cuba, while more than 1,200 Cuban doctors, nurses and medical technicians are filling shortages across the region.
Over the last three years, the government of Fidel Castro granted 350 scholarships to Guyanese students, mostly to study medicine.
“As a result of this huge presence of Guyanese students in Cuba, the government there has decided … to establish a separate faculty of higher education in the capital, Havana, exclusively for Guyanese students,” Luncheon said.
