THE Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) yesterday held the drawing of its special raffle on the ground floor of Fogarty’s. With over 21,500 raffle tickets sold, the union was able to raise just over $2M. The ticket numbers of the lucky winners were announced yesterday. A total of 37 prizes were at stake, including 25 consolation prizes of $5,000 each. A motor cycle, refrigerator, and gas stove were also among the 12 other significant prizes up for grabs.
According to General Secretary of GAWU, Seepaul Narine, the proceedings from the raffle will be going towards the expenses for the union’s 20th Delegates Congress which is scheduled to commence on August 25. President Donald Ramotar, who previously had served as a member of the union’s leadership, is expected to deliver the feature address and declare the Congress open.

Business sessions will take place on August 27th and August 28th at the Bath Primary School, West Coast Berbice. The congress is the highest decision making forum of GAWU and is held triennially. Over 600 delegates from the Union’s 14 bargaining units are expected to be in attendance at the 20th Delegates Congress.

The following are the winning raffle ticket numbers (in order from 1st to 12th and then consolation prizes):  13291, 10915, 533, 2508, 1491, 4629, 20967, 15138, 18102, 14053, 21261, 7533, 16413, 4546, 20274, 1446, 2158, 16590, 1511, 16250, 18621, 16414, 3351, 11361, 16247, 16417, 14770, 16412, 4396, 2160, 7730, 1447, 5610, 5430 and 10071.