Sayers: Be the best you can

MICHAEL SAYERS, President of the General Employees Cooperative Credit Union (GECCU), is advising young students to “be the best you can be at every stage of your life.”

His call came last week Thursday, July 13, at the Methodist Church Hall in Kingstown, during GECCU’s scholarship awards ceremony.

Of the group who will begin their secondary education in September. Fifteen of those will have some ease on their journey compliments scholarships from GECCU.

They include: Kajj Murray, second overall and for Boys in the recent Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA); Brescott Glynn, a former Kingstown Preparatory School student who placed ninth for Boys and 11th overall.

Also included are: Joleah John from the Dickson Methodist Schoolthird for Girls and 11th overall; Evronn Cadougan, Kingstown Preparatory School - tenth for Boys and 13th overall; Osei Abbott, Georgetown Government School - 11th for Boys and 14th overall.

Also making the list were: J-ylay Lewis, Windsor Primary Schoolfourth for Girls and 16th overall; Alexia Laborde, St Mary’s Roman Catholic - seventh for Girls and 19th overall; Joshua Delpesche, Kingstown Preparatory - 13th on the Boys’ and 19th overall.

Dickson Methodist School’s Delvin Connell 16th for Boys, and 27th overall shared that position with Amariah May, St. Mary’s Roman Catholic who was 12th for girls. They both received scholarships, along with: Meshauna Butler, Union Methodist Primary - 12th for Girls, as well as Saorise Cupid, Sugar Mill Academy, 18th, and Ayah Defreitas, St. Mary’s Roman Catholic, who shared the 18th position for Girls.

The Grenadines were not left out, Kevin Lavia from Bequia Anglican Primary earned his award for being