The Sagicor Basis has been hailed for its continued funding within the training of younger Jamaicans.
Minister of Training, Expertise, Youth and Data, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon, underscored that philanthropy is within the DNA of the charitable arm which has been awarding scholarships for over three a long time.
“Yr after yr, Sagicor has been investing in our younger folks not simply with monetary help however with perception in them. Sagicor is an organization that understands that your biggest returns aren’t solely measured not on the steadiness sheet, however within the lives that you just contact,” she stated.
Dr. Morris Dixon was addressing Tuesday’s (August 12) Sagicor Basis Scholarship Awards Ceremony held at The Jamaica Pegasus resort in New Kingston, the place 55 scholarships have been awarded to secondary and tertiary college students.
The 28 secondary scholarships are valued at $50,000 per yr and will likely be offered for 5 years whereas the 27 tertiary scholarships, valued at $300,000, are renewable for as much as 4 years.
Dr. Morris Dixon charged the scholarship recipients to assume large and think about rising careers.
“See it as you being chosen for larger issues. It’s an enormous deal that you just’ve gotten this. It’s a really large deal that Sagicor has chosen you and so you will have now a accountability to stroll together with your head very excessive since you’ve been chosen and also you’re backed by Sagicor,” she stated.
Scholar on the College of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Calicia Vassell, copped the R. Danny Williams Visionary Award for Management and Volunteerism, whereas Northern Caribbean College (NCU) scholar, James Barrett, earned the Chairman’s Innovation Award.
Sagicor Basis additionally awarded 4 athletes from the 2025 Jamaica Lecturers’ Affiliation (JTA)/Sagicor Nationwide Athletics Championship.
They’re champion boys Kahneil Walford, Ashumor Morrison and Kellan Harris and champion lady, Antoya Lindsay.
In his remarks, Chairman of the Sagicor Basis Jamaica, Christopher Zacca, shared that over the previous 55 years training has been central to Sagicor’s mission.
He stated the choice course of was fairly difficult as there have been greater than 1,400 candidates.
“However from that pool, our chosen students are from everywhere in the island with budding docs, legal professionals, specialists, artists, architects, some politicians too, I’m positive they usually’ve overcome actual adversity and monetary hardships, constructing with them the sort of resilience that’s unmatched,” Mr. Zacca stated.
He identified that the students weren’t solely chosen for his or her excessive tutorial achievements however due to different traits that set them aside.
“In a world that usually asks younger folks to shrink or to attend your flip, you selected as a substitute to point out up with braveness, with focus and with a starvation to rise and make a distinction. That’s what made you 55 out of 1,400. You’re the sort of Jamaicans that we wish to construct extra of and since we consider within the strengths of who you’re turning into, we don’t solely hope for nice issues from you, we’re getting ready for them,” Mr. Zacca said.
