Top Linden performers receive bursaries

Valerie Patterson presenting a $25,000 bursary to Roshelle Sparman, one of three students to receive a LUSCSL bursary for successfully sitting the 2013 CAPE examination

By Jeff Trotman

Orinella Oyana Drakes, the top performer for Region Ten at the 2013 CXC examination, was among twenty seven students, who received bursaries from the Linden Utility Services Cooperative Soc-iety Limited (LUSCSL) on February 21st.

Drakes, who obtained thirteen subjects, including nine grade 1s, two grade 2s, one grade 3 and one withheld, received a bursary award of $15, 000 at the ceremony at the LUSCSL office, Burnham Drive, Wismar.

LUSCSL Chairman,  Valerie Patterson, chaired the ceremony. She ex-plained that the society had intended