The Burnham Education Scholarship Trust (BEST) distributed 10 bursary awards to students who excelled at the 2012 National Grade Six Assessment on Wednesday.
In his address to the recipients PNCR Leader David Granger said that the BEST is not a “one shot initiative” but a relationship. The committee will monitor the awardees progress throughout their secondary education with the aim of guiding them until they graduate from university, the party said in a press release.
Granger reminded the students that the late President Forbes Burnham was the first Minister of Education. “The PNC post-Independence administration constructed the