Twenty-five Grade Six students are the recipients of this year’s GBTI Bursary Awards given as a reward for their successful completion of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA).
According to a GBTI release, each year a number of its Early Savers Members are rewarded for their successful completion of the NGSA. This year 15 of the awardees are Early Savers Account Holders while 10 are the children of employees of the bank.
The lucky Early Savers who were randomly selected were: Kiran Dass, Skeldon Line Path Secondary; Katrina Bishamber, Bishops’ High School; Sarah Leesa Sue, Bishops’ High School; Dashawn Forde, North Georgetown Secondary; Steve Tirbeni, Hope Secondary; Seon Hamer, Bygeval Secondary; Alamudeen Kathanan, Zeeburg Secondary; Yadevi Percy, Good Hope Secondary; Khojal Brigmohan, Hope Secondary; Akash Jaimurat, Annandale Secondary; Bharrat Naraine, Diamond Secondary; Talesia Abel, Zeeburg Secondary; Alyssa Michael, Saint Stanislaus College; and Kyle Wayne, Richard Ishmael Secondary.
Children of employees who were awarded bursaries for their successful completion of the NGSA are: Deyna DeCamp, Sajid Durball, Jessica and Joshua Farinha, Gianna Fernandes, Jovana Goodridge, Sarah Hussain, Maliha Rajkumar, Nerissa Samaroo and Ariella Yhap.
Under normal circumstances the students would receive their awards at a ceremony held at the bank, however due to the COVID-19 constraints, their bursaries were given via direct credit to their accounts.
To be eligible for selection, students must have an active account at GBTI as at April 1st of the year of writing the exams, the release added.
