The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness (UWI-ALJGSB) have emerged win­ners of the 25th An­niver­sary Na­tion­al Ter­tiary Lev­el Quiz on the se­cu­ri­ties in­dus­try, host­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion (TTSEC).

The fi­nals of the com­pe­ti­tion were held ear­li­er this week on Wednes­day 19 Oc­to­ber 2022. The com­pe­ti­tion’s theme was You In­vest. We Pro­tect. Every­one Ben­e­fits!

A re­lease from the TTSEC re­ports the fi­nal bat­tle came down to two teams—The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies’ Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness (UWI-ALJGSB) and the Cipri­ani Col­lege of Labour and Co-op­er­a­tive Stud­ies (CCLS)—both vy­ing for the cham­pi­ons tro­phy, $15,000 to be in­vest­ed in the lo­cal se­cu­ri­ties mar­ket, gold medals and brag­ging rights.

“In the end, UWI-ALJGSB rep­re­sent­ed by Chris­t­ian Brook­er, Ted­dy-Ann Quam­i­na, Alexan­der Ram­lo­gan, and led by their coach Dr. Miguel Din­di­al emerged vic­to­ri­ous,” the TTSEC re­lease con­firmed.

The team from Cipri­ani Col­lege com­prised Nicholas Charles, Moni­fa Cud­joe, Sha­nia John and coach Nichelle Ro­dul­fo. They won $9,000 to be in­vest­ed in the lo­cal se­cu­ri­ties mar­ket, along with sil­ver medals.

“The TTSEC takes this op­por­tu­ni­ty to thank all the schools, stu­dents and teach­ers for their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the TTSEC’s first na­tion­al quiz com­pe­ti­tion which, in ad­di­tion to the fi­nal­ists, al­so in­clud­ed the Coun­cil of Le­gal Ed­u­ca­tion (Hugh Wood­ing Law School); CTS Col­lege of Busi­ness and Com­put­er Sci­ence Lim­it­ed (CTS Col­lege); and UWI School of Busi­ness and Ap­plied Stud­ies Lim­it­ed (Trad­ing as ROYTEC),” the re­lease said.  “We al­so ex­tend grat­i­tude to CBTT/NFLP, as part-spon­sor of the prizes of this com­pe­ti­tion.”

All stu­dents in the com­pe­ti­tion re­ceived to­kens and tablets cour­tesy the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Na­tion­al Fi­nan­cial Lit­er­a­cy Pro­gramme (CBTT/NFLP) and cer­tifi­cates from the TTSEC.

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About the TTSEC:

The TTSEC is gov­erned by the Se­cu­ri­ties Act 2012 and is re­spon­si­ble for main­tain­ing over­sight of the se­cu­ri­ties mar­ket and for en­sur­ing that fair­ness, eq­ui­ty and trans­paren­cy re­main com­mon val­ues in the mar­ket­place. TTSEC’s vi­sion is to be an ef­fec­tive reg­u­la­tor of the cap­i­tal mar­ket in which stake­hold­ers have con­fi­dence.