Business View Caribbean | August 2019

10 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN AUGUST 2019 Manchester are slated to benefit. These include 450 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) students, who received placement scores of 280 and above. “This year, we are offering four tertiary scholarships to students studying education, medicine, agriculture, and information technology,” Keane said, the program, which is in its tenth year, has benefited some 13,500 students to date. Keane added that the initiative continues to grow annually, with JISCO/Alpart awarding $13 million to 1,800 students last year. “Each year, we do our evaluation (on the program) and we continue to see how we can make it much better. We continue to do this initiative because we recognize the value of education in our operating areas.” “We know that there are a number of students who are actually in need of some assistance to further their educational development from the primary, secondary, tertiary, and even the basic (school) level, where we assist students with vouchers to purchase uniforms, bags books, and so on. Students and parents in the beneficiary communities look forward to the assistance every year,” Keane said, noting that it serves to motivate the students to do well in school. The top-performing boy and girl in the inaugural sitting of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) have received $1 million each from the Guardian Group Foundation to assist in financing five years of their secondary education. Dominic Haisley and Rachel Gammon, who will be attending Campion College in September, were among 25 outstanding scholars honored at the Foundation’s annual Scholarship and Grant Awards ceremony held on July 23, at the AC Marriott Hotel in New Kingston. More than $5.5 million in grants, bursaries, book vouchers, and book supplies were awarded to the students. Also honored were children of Guardian Life policyholders who emerged as top performers in PEP; children of Guardian Life employees who excelled in PEP, and those who will be entering tertiary institutions locally. Grants were also provided to eight students from Denham Town, Alpha and Duhaney Park primary schools in Kingston and the Sunbury All-Age School in Clarendon. This year, we are offering four tertiary scholarships to students studying education, medicine, agriculture, and information technology