Students advised to be involved in community service

Bridgetown.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Maxine McClean, told students from a cross section of academic institutions across the island that community service would enrich their lives.

In a address to 53 students who were being honoured with scholarships  by the City of Bridgetown Co-operative Credit Union Limited (COBCCU) for their outstanding academic achievements over the past school year, McClean told the children added community service to their repertoire would enrich thier lives.

"I want all scholarship winners today  and in the past to focus  not only on the benefits and obvious pluses of their scholarship, but see it as an obligation to the Credit Union and the people of Barbados", McClean said,

"It is my hope that past scholarship winners have not only made good use of the tangible benefits, but would have been fully sensitised to the importance of the philosophy of people helping people wich is at the heart of the COBCCU movement", McClean told the students and their family members gathered at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre over the weekend.