Four students from the parishes of St. Ann and Manchester are this year’s recipients of the Rio Tinto/Alcan Legacy Fund Agriculture Scholarship.
The students, who are pursuing studies at the Portland-based College of Agriculture Science and Education (CASE), are Tomai McLean; Celine Sitladeen; Daunja Galloway and Vanessa McMurrine.
The awards, totalling more than $2.7 million, cover the cost of tuition, boarding, meals, among other education-related expenses.
Minister of Transport and Mining Audley Shaw, congratulated the scholarship recipients in his address at the handover ceremony held at the Ministry’s Maxfield Avenue offices in St. Andrew on October 13.
Chairman of the Rio Tinto/Alcan Legacy Fund Board, Sherene Golding Campbell, said she is pleased that the Fund is achieving its mandate and providing assistance to those in need.
Expressing thanks on behalf of the recipients, Tamoi McLean said the initiative has greatly changed their lives and “enabled what would have seemed impossible”.
The Rio Tinto/Alcan Legacy Fund agriculture scholarship is offered to students who live in the parishes of St. Catherine, St. Ann and Manchester.
The targeted parishes are the areas where the entity’s bauxite mining and alumina refining operations were located for 59 years, prior to the conclusion of its local engagements in 2001.
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Minister of Transport and Mining, Audley Shaw (centre), participates in the handover of a cheque valued at more than $2.7 million to four students who are pursuing studies at the Portland-based College of Agriculture Science and Education (CASE). Occasion was the presentation of the Rio Tinto/Alcan Legacy Fund Agriculture Scholarship at the Ministry in Kingston on October 13. The students are Tamoi McLean (second left); Daunja Galloway (third left) and Celine Sitladeen (third right). Absent is Vanessa McMurrine. Sharing in the presentation are Acting General Manager, Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), Joan Thomas Levy (left); Chairman, Rio Tinto/Alcan Legacy Fund Board, Sherene Golding Campbell (second right); and Principal Director, Mining/Minerals (Acting) in the Ministry, Suresh Bhalai (right). In the background are Director of Bauxite Lands, Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), Kemoy Lindsay; and Programme Executioner, Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ, Pamela Nesbeth.
