The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) will honour five students from Guyana on Thursday.

According to the Ministry of Education (MOE), Dave Chowtie, Asiyah Karim, Venisha Lall, Chitra Parbhu and Aniyah Couchman are slated to be awarded by the Ministry of Education in Saint Lucia, along with other CXC top awardees for 2024.

The youths will be engaged in a variety of activities which will culminate in an awards ceremony at 7pm on Thursday and will be live streamed on CVC-TV.

Despite several challenges this year, Guyana’s Ministry of Education excelled once again at CXC’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam (CAPE). A total of 721 students wrote various units from 13 secondary schools and four private centres across the country.

The Daily Chronicle reported that Dave Chowtie, a student at Queen’s College, received recognition as the most outstanding CSEC student across the Caribbean. His academic excellence was underscored by his attainment of top honors in the Humanities discipline.

At the CAPE level, Ms. Aniyah Couchman of Queen’s College was recognized as the most outstanding student overall and in Natural Sciences.

Meanwhile, Asiyah Karim of the I.S.A. Islamic School is set to receive the award for most outstanding performance in Business; Venisha Lall of Anna Regina Secondary School copped most outstanding in Technical and Vocational Studies, while Chitra Parbhu of the Sarswati Vidya Niketan School copped most outstanding in sciences.

The other students to be honoured on Thursday are: Udia Yesenia Mckay, Yeshuwa Douglas, Shanoya Morgan, Rizwana Abdool, Rishav Persad, Abigail Ramdhanie, Alexei Aqui, Noella Brown and Khadine Rambert.

Persons can also send congratulatory messages to the awardees on the CXC® 2024 Wall of Fame! They can visit www.cxc.org/2024-wall-of-fame to learn more about their achievements and to leave comments at the bottom of the page.