President David Granger yesterday urged the first batch of graduates from the Bertram Collins College of the Public Service to be the change that is needed to transform the sector into one which caters for the needs of the citizenry.

“Change is a continuous process and if public service is to change the country, much more needs to be done…The quality of public service this country needs cannot be delivered by simply walking off the street one day and calling yourself a public servant the next”, Granger said during the graduation ceremony which was held at GuySuCo’s former headquarters at Ogle, East Coast Demerara where the school is being housed temporarily.

The 58 cadets successfully completed a one year programme which was divided into three semesters. The areas of study includes Information Technology, Accounting, Budgeting, and the Legal System in Guyana, Language, Communication, Politics and International Relations. A second batch of cadets is presently being trained under the supervision of 31 administrative and academic staff…..