The 2030 Vision is you — scholarship, bursary awardees told
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Twenty-seven back-to-school scholarship and bursary awardees were recently challenged to make the most of the educational opportunities being given to them because of how integral they are to the realisation of Jamaica’s 2030 Vision.
Just prior to her recent installation as new president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, Georgia Waugh Richards reminded listeners at the Sydney Carter Scholarship and GSAT Bursary awards ceremony of the Manchester Co-operative Credit Union that the student beneficiaries are Jamaica’s future.
“We have as our 2030 Vision that Jamaica will be that place to live, to work, to raise families and do business. I can guarantee you, boys and girls, that a number of persons in this room will not be here at 2030 in the flesh. I can almost guarantee you, unless it is something abnormal, that all of you will be here at 2030. Boys and girls, it therefore means that that vision is you. What will you do with yourselves to ensure that the land you will live in, Jamaica, land we love, becomes that place (that the vision talks about)?” she asked.
The Manchester Co-operative Credit Union handed over $1,340,000 in grants to the students.
Waugh Richards said that the recipients should prove that they are a good investment.
President of the co-op’s board of directors, Reverend Charles Danvers, told the gathering at the Mandeville Hotel that education is one of the sure pillars on which national development will and must take place.
“Without solid education our young people will drift aimlessly,” he said.
Recipient of last year’s Sydney Carter Scholarship, Tanielle Fairclough, told the honorees that it is all about “perspective and viewing life with the right lens” as they look forward to the new chapter.
“Emotions such as fear can present itself and become intimidating, but there is no need to be fearful of what lies ahead,” she said.
Fairclough completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in management studies at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Western Jamaica Campus.
The scholarship is named in honour of a late former manager of the credit union, Sydney Carter.
Zanor Bell, a second-year political science major at UWI, is this year’s Sydney Carter Scholarship recipient. All the other awardees received bursaries.
