Lone Tobago scholarship winner: I hope to inspire others
Saturday 13 March 2021
Scholarship winner Treverra James, centre, at her Signal Hill home on Friday with her father Trevor James and mother Sherra Carrington-James. - DAVID REID
She is the second of her siblings to receive a Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) open scholarship, but for 19-year-old Treverra James it came as no surprise.
In 2017, her elder sister Safiya James, another past student of Bishop’s High School, was awarded an open scholarship, and is in Ireland studying medicine.
In an interview with Newsday on Friday, the day after Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly announced this year s scholarships, James said she knew she was up to winning one.
Dil-E-Nadan G3 member wins open maths schol
Varun Ramnarine
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THIRD generation (G3) entertainer Varun Ramnarine has given credence to the long-held belief that music increases one’s cognitive abilities in subjects such as mathematics and science.
Ramnarine, a first-year mechanical engineering student at UWI, St Augustine, was among one of the 100 national scholarship winners announced on Thursday.
He captured an open mathematics scholarship, one of the ten (five open and five additional) awarded to his alma mater, Naparima College, San Fernando.
Ramnarine was born into music, as his father Raymond is the lead singer of the family band Dil-E-Nadan. He and his younger brother Vinesh and cousins make up G3, the third-generation musicians and singers, and have been performing from a very young age.
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Report on schools reopening: RC secondary students happy to be back Published by Tags
Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly held a meeting for education stakeholders February 23 to get feedback on the return to school for Forms Four, Five and Six students preparing for examinations.
Limited face to face tuition resumed at secondary schools across the country February 8.
The Catholic Education Board of Management (CEBM) presented a report on the schools under its purview: Matelot Community College, St Francis College, the Presentation Colleges in San Fernando and Chaguanas, and St Benedict’s College.
The report indicated that students were happy to be physically back at school. Attendance was 100 per cent and students’ feedback was that “physical tuition was invaluable.”
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