RALPH BAN­WARIE

The Chi­nese Em­bassy host­ed award­ed schol­ar­ship grants to three stu­dents who re­side in the Bor­ough of Ari­ma on Wednes­day at the Ari­ma Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre on An­gli­can Street Ari­ma.

The three awardees were Kyle Leera, a stu­dent of Ari­ma Boys’ RC, Evan­ge­lene Far­fan, a stu­dent of El Do­ra­do East Sec­ondary School and Sy’rai of St Joseph Con­vent, Port-of-Spain.

Am­bas­sador of the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na to Trinidad and To­ba­go Fang Qui said the grants will be used to as­sist the re­cip­i­ents of the schol­ar­ship with their ed­u­ca­tion­al ex­pens­es.

He said Chi­na and Trinidad and To­ba­go had ties for over 200 years and added that Chi­na will al­ways be of as­sis­tance to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

He said Chi­na played a sig­nif­i­cant role in the time of COVID-19 and sup­plied the coun­try with vac­cines.

Ari­ma May­or Cagney Casimire al­so re­in­forced that Trinidad and To­ba­go had ties for a num­ber of years with Chi­na.

He said most of the shops in the bor­ough were run by Chi­nese na­tion­als and even to­day they have ex­pand­ed and opened su­per­mar­kets and clothes stores.

He thanked Am­bas­sador Fang Qui for grant­i­ng the schol­ar­ships to three of the bor­ough’s chil­dren.