RSVGPF, PCCU to host joint scholarship awards ceremony

The Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) and the SVG Police Co-operative Credit Union Limited (PCCU), will jointly present scholarships and bursaries to over 86 students from various secondary schools throughout St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), who have successfully passed the Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA), on Wednesday, August 15, at the Police Credit Union Conference Room located on Bay Street, commencing at 3 p.m.

The Police Scholarship Fund is the second largest scholarship programme in SVG; second only to those granted by the Government, and was established to offer scholarships to the children of police officers to further their education.

The joint scholarship awards ceremony will be held under the theme, “Sixty solid years of educating our nation’s youth”.

Speakers at this event will include Commissioner of Police Colin John, President of the Police Credit Union, and Retired Superintendent of Police Horace Williams. The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Ankie Scott, lecturer in Economics at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, and a former recipient of the police scholarship.