THE Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has embarked on an outreach and fact finding programme geared to reach outlying areas.

GNBS said that in an effort to decentralize its programme, to share information with residents of the outlying regions, and to garner feedback from stakeholders, staff members of the Communication Division of the Information Services Department of the GNBS visited several areas across the country.

To date, Officers have conducted two-day visits to Linden, Region Ten (Upper Demerara/Berbice) and Bartica, Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni), and a similar visit is planned for Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) later this month.

During the visits, GNBS employees conducted activities such as lectures for secondary school students and teachers on programmes of the GNBS, the importance and relationship between standards and quality, career opportunities in standardisation, and the implementation of the metric system.

Another major activity was visits to markets, supermarkets and shops to ensure that devices used were verified, and that vendors understand how to use the metric system and are packaging goods offered for sale in metric quantities.

Several live call-in programmes on television were also conducted by staffers of GNBS.