(Nevis) – Two scholarship winners have been selected to receive awards for the 2007/2008 academic year, according to a press release from Daniel Brantley & Associates, Barristers & Solicitors of Charlestown, Nevis and Keithley Lake & Associates, Attorneys-at-Law of The Valley, Anguilla.
The recipients this year are Sherry-Ann Liburd of Nevis and Alwayne Smith of Jamaica.
The Keithley Lake & Associates and Daniel Brantley & Associates Scholarships were launched in 2006 as a result of both firms’ desire to assist deserving students enrolled in the Certificate of Legal Education Programme of the Norman Manley Law School.
Harold Malcolm also received a bursary donated by both law firms.
Each scholarship is worth US$2,500 (or EC$6,700) and the Bursary is valued at US$1,000 (or EC$2,600).
Sherry-Ann Liburd graduated from the University of the West Indies, Faculty of Law with a first class honours degree in law in 2006 topping off an impressive undergraduate academic performance. She continued her outstanding performance by being the recipient of the Michael March Memorial Prize for the Law of remedies after the first year of the law school programme. Ms. Liburd has participated in several extra curricula activities in the wider community in Jamaica, while attending the law school.
Alwayne Smith, is the holder of a two degrees from the University of the West Indies and performed extremely will during his first year at the law school. Despite his academic demands, he was, and continues to be involved in Christian Fellowship, Human Rights Committee and the National Initiative for Street Children. This demonstrates his ability to balance his academic pursuit with co-curricular involvement at the law school and beyond.
Harold Malcolm graduated from the University of the West Indies, Faculty of Law with a first class honours degree in law. He also has a Masters degree in English from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. Despite being a student at the Law School and teaching part-time, Harold in involved in a number of civic and volunteer organisations.
“This year’s scholarship winners were selected from an outstanding pool of applicants who we hope will contribute positively to the development of their respective countries and the Caribbean as a whole,” said Yvette Wallace, Managing Partner of Keithley Lake & Associate. “We are investing in the development of legal education in the region. We trust others will be so moved to play their part in this process.”
Mark Brantley, Managing Partner of Daniel, Brantley & Associates stated: “I am very proud of the scholarship winners and our bursary winner this year. I am especially pleased that a Nevisian, Sherry-Ann Liburd, was a recipient. This young lady comes from a wonderful family in Gingerland, Nevis and has the proven intellectual capacity to achieve great things for herself, her family, her country and the wider regional and international community. So too indeed do the other awardees. Daniel, Brantley & Associates continues to be pleased to assist in the legal education of the young people of our Caribbean region and continues to commit itself to the promotion and encouragement of excellence as we develop as a people and as a region.”
