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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Tears of joy, praises as Hillview honours its scholars

by

Matthew Chin
520 days ago
20240109
Hillview College’s President’s Gold Medal winners Ryker Harricharan and Nishka Maharaj pose for a picture after receiving awards for their outstanding performances at the 2023 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations during a ceremony at the school yesterday.

Hillview College’s President’s Gold Medal winners Ryker Harricharan and Nishka Maharaj pose for a picture after receiving awards for their outstanding performances at the 2023 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations during a ceremony at the school yesterday.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Hillview stu­dents Ryk­er Har­richa­ran and Nish­ka Ma­haraj were both award­ed the Pres­i­dent’s Gold Medals for scor­ing top marks in the Caribbean Ad­vanced Pro­fi­cien­cy Ex­am­i­na­tions (CAPE) last year.

In recog­ni­tion of their ac­com­plish­ments, and that of their fel­low peers, which cat­a­pult­ed Hillview Col­lege in­to record-break­ing sta­tus with 13 Gov­ern­ment schol­ar­ships, the col­lege ho­n­oured their open and ad­di­tion­al schol­ar­ship win­ners dur­ing an awards cer­e­mo­ny yes­ter­day.

Shreya Ram­per­sad, an ad­di­tion­al schol­ar­ship win­ner in Cre­ative and Per­form­ing Stud­ies, be­came emo­tion­al in her speech, as she thanked her teach­ers for guid­ing her since Form Three. She al­so praised her fam­i­ly for giv­ing her strength along the way.

“To my par­ents and sis­ters, your love and sup­port have been my pil­lars of strength, your sac­ri­fices and en­cour­ag­ing words have fu­elled my de­ter­mi­na­tion to reach new heights. This achieve­ment is as much yours as it is mine,” Ram­per­sad said with tears fill­ing her eyes.

Al­though se­cur­ing an ad­di­tion­al schol­ar­ship for busi­ness stud­ies, Sachin Ma­haraj en­cour­aged stu­dents to not let aca­d­e­mics de­fine them and en­joy their youth while they still can.

“Don’t let the pres­sures of ex­ams get to you at all, be­cause aca­d­e­mics isn’t every­thing at the end of the day. I know that’s a bit, you know, weird to hear from me, a schol­ar, but I tellin’ ya, your aca­d­e­mics isn’t every­thing. You need to en­joy your days at Hillview; but just know that when time comes, you have to lock in, and you have to do your work,” Ma­haraj said.

Al­so in at­ten­dance was Tu­na­puna MP Es­mond Forde, him­self a for­mer Hillview stu­dent. He con­grat­u­lat­ed the awardees and recog­nised the in­deli­ble mark the col­lege has made on the coun­try.

“For the last num­ber of years, last prob­a­bly 20 years or so, Hillview has been at the top, as it re­gards to schol­ar­ship win­ners,” he said.

Thank­ing God for the ground-break­ing ac­com­plish­ment, the Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary of the Syn­od of the Pres­by­ter­ian Church of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Ter­rence Ward, ap­plaud­ed the ef­forts teach­ers and par­ents had made in the lives of the schol­ars.

“To the teach­ers at Hillview, we thank you for your com­mit­ment and ded­i­ca­tion to the stu­dents. To par­ents, con­grat­u­la­tions, your many years of love and per­sis­tence has borne fruit, and God’s favour has been with your chil­dren,” Ward said.

Pres­i­dent’s Gold Medal win­ner Har­richa­ran was the top per­former in En­vi­ron­men­tal Stud­ies, In­for­ma­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Tech­nol­o­gy, Math­e­mat­ics and Nat­ur­al Sci­ences. Nish­ka Ma­haraj, the oth­er win­ner of the pres­ti­gious award, was tops in Busi­ness Stud­ies, Gen­er­al Stud­ies, Lan­guage Stud­ies, Mod­ern Stud­ies/Hu­man­i­ties and Tech­ni­cal Stud­ies.

Hillview re­ceived sev­en open schol­ar­ships and six ad­di­tion­al schol­ar­ships.


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