Pres­i­dent Amar­jeet Kocher of the Ro­tary Club of St. Au­gus­tine has pledged $90,000 to The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus. The do­na­tion will be dis­trib­uted over a three-year pe­ri­od, with $30,000 al­lo­cat­ed an­nu­al­ly to fund schol­ar­ships and bur­saries for un­der­grad­u­ate stu­dents in need.

The cheque han­dover took place on the uni­ver­si­ty cam­pus. Kocher pre­sent­ed the cheque to Deputy Prin­ci­pal Pro­fes­sor Derek Chadee. Man­ag­er of Fi­nan­cial Ad­vi­so­ry Ser­vices Kristy Smith al­so at­tend­ed the pre­sen­ta­tion.

The uni­ver­si­ty will dis­trib­ute the funds through the Cam­pus Com­mit­tee for Un­der­grad­u­ate Awards. The Com­mit­tee will be re­spon­si­ble for man­ag­ing the fair and trans­par­ent al­lo­ca­tion of the schol­ar­ships and bur­saries.