15 students awarded medical scholarships in Cuba

The government of Cuba has awarded fifteen scholarships to Belizeans to study medicine in that country. The students were selected from thirty applicants by officials of the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Embassy of Cuba in Belize. They will take up their studies at the Rafael Perro School of Medicine in Pinar del Rio. The scholarship recipients are Shantel Pakeman, Irbin Segura and Tamarie Rocke from Belize City; Lydia Cruz of Esperanza; Jose Can and Josimar Cantun from Orange Walk; Jose Antonio Galvez, Danny Yacab, and Armelle Gillet from San Ignacio; Abigail Joseph of Cotton Tree Village; Candy Azueta from Georgeville; Corozal’s Ulysses Bautista and Isaac Gongora; Roni Zul from Hopeville; and Ismar Tun of San Narciso. A total of forty-eight university level scholarships have been granted by Cuba to Belizeans this year.