UTech students get JAFA scholarships
From left: Isiah Parnell, charge d’affaires, US Embassy; Angella Harvey, cultural affairs specialist, US Embassy; Yashika Duncan, pharmacy student at the University of Technology (UTech); Soshana Shirley, social economics and environmental statistics student at UTech; Morin Seymour, president, Jamaica America Friendship Association (JAFA); Dianne Mitchell, UTech vice-president, administration and university registrar; and Garcia Imoru, UTech financial aid officer. Yashika and Soshana were recently presented by JAFA with $80,000 cheques toward their studies. The bursaries will help the students with continuing their undergraduate programmes. JAFA organises and promotes social and educational development activities, including the awarding of bursaries to undergraduate students at UTech and UWI in alternate years.