21st August 2010
LUCELEC PRESENTS 26 SCHOLARSHIPS

Saint Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) presented 26 scholarships to eligible children of LUCELEC employees over the weekend. Five of the recipients are new entrants into the Company’s scholarship programme having performed very well at this year’s Common Entrance Exams. The other 21 are continuing in the programme.
The programme awards deserving students a full scholarship covering books, school supplies, uniforms, tuition and other fees, school bags and notebooks through secondary school and the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, providing the recipients maintain good academic performances.
This year, six other students who also performed well at the Common Entrance exams were granted bursaries for the upcoming academic year. The presentations were made at the Company’s annual Scholarship Social held at its Cul de Sac Compound. The activity is staged to celebrate the achievements of the outstanding performers of the scholarship programme, as well as to give the students the opportunity to interact with each other and with LUCELEC personnel in a less formal setting.

In a motivational talk to the students, which formed part of the programme, Managing Director of the Celestial Self-Development Centre, Thecla Deterville, lauded LUCELEC for what she called “an investment in the human resource capacity of the country”. She observed that these scholarship holders would be the doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and leaders of the country in the years to come. She also encouraged the students to apply themselves diligently to their studies, not only to ensure that they remain in the scholarship programme, but also to build upon the great work they have accomplished thus far.
LUCELEC’s Managing Director, Trevor Louisy, congratulated all the recipients and revealed plans for providing even greater support for the students through additional motivational and study skills sessions to be held during the course of the academic year.
The Company also used the opportunity to provide the recipient of its Bernard Theobalds Scholarship, Miss Abigail Williams, with funding for her second year of studies at the University of the West Indies. The Bernard Theobalds Scholarship is intended to encourage students to pursue an education at the University of the West Indies for a career in the field of Engineering. The scholarship is open to all Saint Lucians and is awarded once every 3 years.
Since the inception of the LUCELEC scholarship programme more than one hundred students have benefitted.

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