Belizean wins tourism scholarship

The Caribbean Tourism Organisation, C.T.O., has announced five scholarship winners chosen from the region… and a Belizean student is among them. Zerith Eiley will be awarded a six thousand U.S. dollar scholarship towards her two-year study in Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus. The other scholarship winners were from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Barbados, and Jamaica. Ten other students will receive lesser grants of one thousand U.S. dollars. The Caribbean Tourism Organisation says its education and training opportunities for Caribbean nationals are an effort to produce future leaders for the region’s tourism sector.