Georgetown : Rebecca Khan, a former student of the Bishop’s High School yesterday received the Eric Williams CAPE prize in History at a simple ceremony at the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission in Kingston Jamaica. Rebecca is the first Guyanese to be awarded the prize.
In 2008 the Eric Williams Memorial Collection joined with the CXC to offer an award in memory of the late Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and Historian Dr. Eric Williams. The award is for the most outstanding candidate in the Caribbean in the subject CAPE History.
In order to attain the award the candidate must attain a Grade one in CAPE History unit one and CAPE History unit two.
Rebecca obtained grade ones with distinctions in both CAPE History units and was selected for the prize after ranking the highest on CXC ranking criteria.
Rebecca had placed second in Guyana at CAPE in 2010 having achieved five subjects at CAPE with four grade ones with four distinctions and one grade two and was awarded a trophy by the Ministry of Education at its awards ceremony in 2010. Rebecca also achieved, grade ones in CAPE Law units one and two, and was named in the CXC and CAPE merit list for both subject areas and Caribbean studies.
