The Guyanese scholarship student, who allegedly murdered a man and slit a woman’s throat in Cuba, will be given legal representation and his future in the scholarship programme will hinge on the outcome of the court case, according to Public Service Minister Jennifer Westford.
The student, Shurlon Austin, of Hamilton Road, Pattensen, South Sophia, left Guyana in 2006 at the age of 24 and was scheduled to complete the Cuba-leg of his studies over the next few months. Thereafter, he would have returned to Guyana to complete his final year of studies before graduation.
Asked about Austin’s future in the scholarship programme, Westford yesterday said that it would depend on