On November 7, on the College of the West Indies Regional Headquarters in Jamaica,
CCRIF SPC introduced the award of 11 scholarships totalling US$80,000 for college kids pursuing postgraduate and undergraduate research in areas associated to complete catastrophe threat administration (CDRM) for educational yr 2023/24 at Caribbean universities.
For the reason that inception of the CCRIF SPC Scholarship Programme in 2010, CCRIC has supplied 176 scholarships totaling US$1.8 million to Caribbean nationals for research at regional and nationwide universities within the Caribbean, in addition to universities within the USA and the UK.
The award ceremony represented a celebration of scholarship and success and was a testomony to the position that CCRIF is enjoying in investing in and nurturing a expertise pool of youth within the areas of CDRM.
CCRIF Board Member, Saundra Bailey, in her remarks, stated, “To our students, congratulations. We’re happy with the choices we now have made in selecting you as CCRIF students. You might be our future and the long run we wish relies on the choices we make in the present day. Use this chance to outline your success and form your future and that of your nation and be an agent of change”.
Additionally in attendance had been representatives of The College of the West Indies, with which CCRIF SPC has had a partnership since 2010. These included amongst others: Ms. Sandrea Maynard, Professional Vice-Chancellor, Workplace of International Affairs; Dr. Maurice Smith, College Registrar; Prof. Aldrie Henry-Lee, Professional Vice-Chancellor Postgraduate Research; Prof. Michael Taylor, Dean of School of Science and Expertise; Dr. David McBean, Director of the Mona College of Enterprise and Administration, amongst others. Professors of the College of Expertise, Jamaica (UTech), together with Prof. Carol Archer, the Graduate Centre Coordinator for the School of the Constructed Setting, additionally attended the occasion, as UTech additionally has a scholar receiving an award this yr.
The recipients of the CCRIF postgraduate and undergraduate scholarships for 2023 are as follows:
Postgraduate scholarships at The College of the West Indies
- Patrick Burke (Jamaican) – M.Sc. Enterprise Threat Administration
- Toni Ann Hendricks (Jamaican) – MPhil Environmental Administration
- La Ferne Henry (Jamaican) – M.Sc. Enterprise Threat Administration
- Fayola Thompson (Trinidadian) – MPhil Seismology
- Ameika Turner (Jamaican) – M.Sc. Pure Useful resource Administration
- Postgraduate scholarship on the College of Expertise, Jamaica
- Natola Watt (Jamaican) – M.Sc. Constructed Setting
Undergraduate scholarships at The College of the West Indies
- Jabari Aberdeen-Mc Kell (Trinidadian) – B.Sc. Geology, Minor in Renewable Power
Administration - Yasser Charaf (Belizean) – B.Sc. Civil Engineering
- Rhyana Dupigny (Barbadian) – B.Sc. Environmental Science
- Adam Loutan (Trinidadian) – B.Sc. Geography and Environmental and Pure Useful resource
Administration - Malakai Williams (Jamaican) – B.Sc. Geology
The CCRIF undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship programmes can be found to all
CARICOM and CCRIF member nations within the Caribbean.
One of many recipients of a postgraduate award, Patrick Burke, a former ward of the state had this to say about his accomplishment: “For me the path to getting a bachelor’s
diploma has not been a straightforward one or a direct route. I’ve been a ward of the state for 17 years and as such the journey was tough and typically insufferable. Being confronted with
disdain, ridicule, and stigma grew to become a norm for wards, and this affected me all through highschool and college. The fact is that being in a boys’ house was a relentless battle,
mentally, bodily and emotionally – particularly as a result of schooling was by no means seen as an necessary topic. Nonetheless, I didn’t permit what I went by to have an effect on my futuristic objective.”
CCRIF congratulates its 2023/24 scholarship recipients and appears ahead to their contributions to advancing the sustainability agenda of the area.
The awards ceremony additionally included the launch of the 2024 CCRIF scholarship programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Purposes for the 2024 scholarships are actually open and individuals can go to the CCRIF web site to use at: https://www.ccrif.org/ccrif-uwi-scholarships (undergraduate) or https://www.ccrif.org/scholarship (postgraduate).
Caribbean universities whose college students have obtained scholarships over the 13-year interval are The College of the West Indies; College of Expertise, Jamaica; College of Guyana; and College of Trinidad and Tobago. Scholarships have been supplied to nationals from 13 nations within the area: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, The Bahamas, and Trinidad & Tobago.
The scholarship programme is a part of the CCRIF’s wider Technical Help (TA) Programme, which goals to create a cadre of individuals who can contribute to efficient catastrophe threat financing, catastrophe threat administration, local weather change adaptation and environmental sustainability within the area. The CCRIF TA Programme additionally supplies internships to school graduates in addition to assist to member nations, regional organizations, non-governmental and community-based organizations, and educational establishments to develop and implement catastrophe threat administration and local weather change adaptation initiatives and programmes. The Facility has made a complete funding of
roughly US$10 million beneath its TA Programme since 2010.
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