Four to study in U.K.

Four Belizeans will pursue post-graduate degrees and courses of study in the United Kingdom this academic year under the British Chevening Scholarships Program. Lorna McDougal, the Executive Director of the National Organization for the Prevention of Child Abuse, NOPCA will work towards a Master’s degree in International Child Welfare at the University of East Anglia. Oliver del Cid will spend nine months at the Foreign Service Program at Oxford. He is a Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. John Pinelo of the Ministry of Natural Resources will pursue a Masters in Rural Resources and Environmental Policy at Wye College while the News Editor of FM 2000 Ann Marie Williams will work on a Masters in Gender and Development at the University of Sussex. All four leave Belize in September. The Chevening Program is run by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.