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UWI students to receive over $2 million for Scholarships & Bursaries from Caribbean Gas Chemical Ltd

For Release Upon Receipt - August 9, 2019

St. Augustine


) Dr Deirdre Charles – Director, The UWI St. Augustine Campus Division of Student Services and Development, Ms. Kristy Mannette-Smith – Manager (Ag.) Financial Advisory Services, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal Professor Brian Copeland, Mr. Hiroshi Kita – Chief Executive Officer, CGCL, Mrs Donielle Charles-Rodriguez, Corporate Secretary, CGCL and Professor Indar Ramnarine, The UWI St. Augustine’s Deputy Campus Principal, at the MoA signing ceremony

Eighty (80) nationals of Trinidad and Tobago attending The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine Campus will benefit from scholarships and bursaries over the next  five years courtesy Caribbean Gas Chemical Limited (CGCL). This follows the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) for the establishment of a CGCL Scholarship and Bursaries Fund on Monday, July 29, 2019.

The MoA formalises a commitment between The UWI and CGCL, from 2019-2024, and includes the award of fifty (50) bursaries valued at $5,000 each. Thirty (30) continuous scholarships valued at $20,000 each will support programmes and research across eight faculties at The UWI for the same period. The awards will be based on academic merit, financial need and/or extra-curricular activities or any combination of two or three.

Prior to the signing of the MoA, CGCL funded ten bursaries totalling TT$50,000.00 to undergraduate students of The UWI from La Brea and environs at the start of Academic Year 2018/2019.

These scholarships and bursaries will be offered to new and continuing undergraduate students respectively from CGCL's fence line communities such as La Brea, Sobo Village, Rousillac, Vance River, Vessigny Village and Union Village.

Signing on behalf of both parties were UWI St. Augustine’s Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal Professor Brian Copeland and Mr. Hiroshi Kita, Chief Executive Officer of CGCL. Professor Copeland expressed his sincerest gratitude to CGCL for their continued support to students of The UWI. Also present at the signing were UWI representatives such as Professor Indar Ramnarine – Deputy Campus Principal, Dr Deirdre Charles – Director, Division of Student Services and Development, Ms. Kristy Mannette-Smith – Manager (Ag.) Financial Advisory Services, and Mrs. Debra Coryat-Patton, Legal Officer. Representing CGCL were Mr. Kahlil Comissiong – Community Engagement Coordinator, and Corporate Secretary Mrs. Donielle Charles-Rodriguez.

For more information on the scholarships and bursaries, please visit https://sta.uwi.edu/scholarships/

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Since its inception in 1948, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged, regional University with well over 40,000 students. Today, The UWI is the largest, most longstanding higher education provider in the Commonwealth Caribbean, with four campuses in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Open Campus. The UWI has faculty and students from more than 40 countries and collaborative links with 160 universities globally; it offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology, Social Sciences and Sport. The UWI’s seven priority focal areas are linked closely to the priorities identified by CARICOM and take into account such over-arching areas of concern to the region as environmental issues, health and wellness, gender equity and the critical importance of innovation. Website:www.uwi.edu 

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

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