KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Eleven Caribbean college students pursuing undergraduate and post-graduate research in areas associated to complete catastrophe threat administration (CDRM) have just lately obtained scholarships from the Caribbean Disaster Danger Insurance coverage Facility (CCRIF) segregated portfolio firm (SPC).
The Ceremony at hand over the Scholarships totaling US$80,000 passed off on the Regional headquarters of the College of the West Indies in Jamaica early final week. It pushed the worth of scholarships issued by the CCRIF SPC to above US$ 1.8 million with 176 recipients.
An announcement from CCRIF SPC stated the “award ceremony represented a celebration of scholarship and success and was a testomony to the position that CCRIF is taking part in in investing in and nurturing a expertise pool of youth within the areas of CDRM.
CCRIF Board Member Mrs. Saundra Bailey, in her remarks, stated, “To our students, congratulations. We’re happy with our choice to decide on you as CCRIF students.
You’re our future, and the long run we would like relies on the selections we make right now. Use this chance to outline your success, form your nation’s future, and be an agent of change”.
Six Jamaicans, three Trinidadians, one Barbadian, and one Belizean had been amongst this yr’s CCRIF SPC scholarship recipients.
Jamaican Patrick Burke, pursuing a Grasp of Science in Enterprise Danger Administration, stated acquiring his Bachelor of Science diploma was difficult given his historical past as a state ward for 17 years.
“Being confronted with disdain, ridicule, and stigma turned a norm ahead, and this affected me all through highschool and college,” Burke stated, including that “the truth is that being in a boys’ residence was a relentless battle, mentally, bodily and emotionally – particularly as a result of training was by no means considered as a necessary topic.
“Nevertheless, I didn’t enable what I went by way of to have an effect on my futuristic purpose,” he added.
The opposite areas of examine being pursued by scholarship recipients this yr are environmental administration, seismology, pure useful resource administration, constructed surroundings, civil engineering, geology, and renewable vitality administration.
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