Guyana to augment Diaspora benefits with support from Mexico

Jun 27, 2017 News

-move comes through UG renaissance project

Mexico, through the University of Guyana [UG], is prepared to share its experiences with Guyana so that it can be in a better position to tap into its Diaspora with a view of augmenting beneficial gains.
A partnership to realise this goal was last week vocalised by Mexican Ambassador, Mr. Ivan Roberto Sierra Medel. The occasion was a press conference hosted by the Mexican Embassy in collaboration with UG.
Speaking at the press conference, Ambassador Medel said, “the Embassy of Mexico is pleased to work closely with the University of Guyana, and I personally want to express gratitude to Vice Chancellor [Ivelaw] Griffith for this partnership, because Mexico is eager to learn from Guyana, and also eager to exchange experiences in the many fields that effect development of our societies”.
According to Ambassador Medel, immigration is one of the major issues in Guyana as it is in Mexico. Mexico, he explained, has a long history of immigration. He related that “it is a country of destination for immigrants, it is a country that is a source of immigrants, it is a country of transit and it is a country of return of immigrants.”
As such, Ambassador Medel related that “over the years, the Government of Mexico has put in place policies addressing the need to engage with the 30-million strong Mexican Diaspora and we want to share this experience with Guyana. We want to share it with the University of Guyana and the best part of Mexico is inside of Mexico and the overseas communities”.
He added, “We have the global Diaspora; we not only have immigrants in the United States and Canada, we have Mexicans living around the world and some of them, almost one million of them, are highly skilled…So the global network that brings together highly skilled immigrant Mexicans is a highly skilled best practice regarding Diaspora engagement, and we are very happy to have this opportunity to share this experience with Guyana”.
As part of its partnership with UG, Mexico will have an integral role to play when it hosts a Diaspora Engagement Conference next month.
Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith, is particularly pleased to have Mexico on board. In fact, he has described Mexico’s support as a manifestation of a partnership between UG and Mexico. He revealed too that Mexico, through its Embassy, and UG have been developing, over the last year, several different strands of partnership.
“Perhaps one of the more recent bits of evidence of that partnership is when the Government of Mexico, through its Embassy, sponsored someone to come directly from Mexico to be a part of our Turkeyen and Tain Talks, looking at oil [and] the experience of the Mexican reality looking at its energy sector,” Professor Griffith said.
According to the Vice Chancellor, “the Ambassador himself is one of the strong advocates testifying before the University Council among other places as we move to establish a school of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation.”
He explained that an important element of that pursuit is “we are asking that each student that graduates from that school of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation has one language other than English. Spanish will be one of those languages [as well as] Mandarin and Portuguese, and Mexico has committed to enabling us to deliver the instructional reality where Spanish is concerned.”
The whole collaboration with Mexico comes as part of a renaissance project being pursued by the national university under the guidance of Vice Chancellor Griffith. The project, he explained, is taking what some might call a non-traditional path since it is characterised by the “building of friendships and partnerships in a variety of ways.”
According to Professor Griffith, “I want to signal the differentiation and the variety of our pursuits by having the evidence of one of those elements of the pursuits or partnership with Mexico be reflective of the significant strides of the renaissance that we are making”.

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