St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris gives financial support to around 100 students

St Kitts and Nevis: Amid a period when citizens and residents of St. Kitts and Nevis, like millions throughout the world, are unfavourably affected financially by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister and Parliamentary Representative for Constituency Seven, Dr Timothy Harris, again moved forward to present much required financial support to close to 100 school students.

This was done by the 17th annual Help-a-Child Scholarship Programme, an initiative of Prime Minister Harris that gave a bursary of $500 to 95 students who have shown academic potential. The 17th instalment of the prime minister’s legacy initiative was held at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church on Thursday, October 22.

Prime Minister Harris has extended maintained that proper education is the greatest gift that one can present to a child, and as such has pledged to continue his support to the educational progress of the nation’s youth for as high as he can.

The prime minister said, “We’ve been performing this for 17 great years because we believe in what we are doing, and we are overwhelmed when we look to see what has become of some of those who would have profited from this special programme.”

The Prime Minister displayed on his own educational course and recalled that during those years he too benefited from the generous help of others.

“I shall recollect that when it was time to sit the CXC and GSE, which were newly launched, it was a kind fellow who would have paid my exam fees, so I have lived it about people giving back and that is why when we launched this [Help-a-Child programme] I said ‘the greatest gift we can give to our young people is the gift of a quality education,” Dr. Harris affirmed.

Furthermore, Prime Minister Harris said that his Team Unity government proceeds to make plentiful investments in the education sector, evident by the vital budgetary allocation made to the Ministry of Education yearly.

“The education which we want to have being purveyed in our schools must teach and support our young people towards production and productivity, and of course efficiency. These boys and girls are going to be the next set of representatives, honorary consuls, police officers, nurses, doctors, businessmen and women getting a prolific enrichment to St Kitts and Nevis. And in the realm of technology and in this minimizing globe, if you will, the sky is the limit and there is no limit to our range except we impose those limits upon ourselves,” the prime minister continued.

During Thursday’s ceremony, students of the Joshua Obadiah Williams Primary School gifted Prime Minister Harris with a plaque in honour of his years of dedicated and consistent commitment to the educational development of young people, by his Help-a-Child Programme.