The Cameroon General Certificate of Education Board, GCE Board is receiving rave reviews from the public eye.

In recent years, the shelves in the office of the Board’s Registrar has been adorned with various awards, expressing the goodness of that institution to Cameroonians and other nationals making use of their services. The new award that the Board is expected to receive is the Camer Foundation Awards.

This information is contained in a memo, dated April 30 2014, addressed to the Registrar, GCE Board, Southwest Region and signed Dr. Roger Ngatcho, General Coordinator.

The correspondence partly reads; “We write to inform you that the jury of Camer Foundation Awards chaired by Prof. Ebenezer Njoh Mouelle, has chosen the GCE Board as the “State Institution of the year 2013.”

For 20 years, the GCE Board has distinguished itself as an institution with a vision and under your stewardship; the GCE Board has built an imposing headquarters, which was inaugurated by the Minister of Secondary. The Board has demonstrated unparalleled maturity.”

According to the organisers of the awards ceremony, this year’s edition, the 10th, has been slated for Saturday, June 28 2014 at the Hilton Hotel in Yaounde.

“The high point of the awards night will be the crowning of the First Lady, Mrs Chantal Biya, founding President of CERAC, with an award for a decade of humanitarian services,” the memo indicated.

After ten years of the Camer Foundation Awards, some of the previous winners include; President Paul Biya, who won the Oscar Prize for Politics, from 1990 to 2000, Hon. Fran?oise Foning, who won the award for the most active woman in politics for the decade – 2000 to 2010, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, won the 2005 Minister of the year award, Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o did same in 2006. Issa Tchiroma Bakary did same in 2009 while Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa will follow suit in the years 2011 to 2012.

At the diplomatic level, Ambassador Niels Marquadt of the US Embassy in Cameroon won the award for the Best Ambassador for 2006, while his Chinese counterpart in Yaounde, Cameroon won the award in 2007.

Former Prime Minister and now Senator, Peter Mafany Musongue won the National Honours Awards 2012, while Mrs Rose Ngassa, Mayor of Tombel won the Mayor of the Year Award for 2007.

Guillaume Sarra, Deputy General Manager of Les Brasseries Du Cameroun won the prize for Excellence in Management 2011 and the award for the Best General Manager in 2005 went to David Nkotto Emane of Camtel.

For the prizes of excellence to communities across Cameroon, the people of Bamboutos in Lekie Division, Centre Region, Haoussa community in Yaounde, the Bawock Village in the Northwest Region all won for the year 2010. In 2011 it was the Bangoulap community in Yaounde and for 2012, it was the Bansoa community in Mvog-Fouda, Yaounde.