Three more scholarships have been awarded to CARICOM nationals, graduates of the University of the West Indies, to pursue post-graduate studies at universities in Chile.

This year the Government of Chile, through its Agency for International Co-operation of Chile (AGCI), has awarded three scholarships to UWI graduates. Hulda Peters of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is on a six-month scholarship to study for a diploma in Agribusiness Management at INACAP, a leading agricultural college in that South American country.

Two-year scholarship were awarded in 1999 to Ms Shanti Persaud and Tanyasha Yearwood. Ms Persaud, a graduate of the Faculty of Pure and Applies Sciences at Mona, Jamaica, will read for the Masters's degree in Natural Planning and Management at the University of Chile. Ms. Yearwood, a graduate of the Facultry of Arts at St Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago, is reading for the Masters in Education at the University of Conception. Both will graduate in 2001.

The scheme began in 1997 with an award for a two-year scholarship to a Jamaican Kevin Weeks who graduated in March last with a Master's degree in International Relations from the University of Chile.

In the following year 1998, two more scholarships were awarded to Keisha Reid and Natalie Mings, who are pursuing studies leading up their Masters degree in Education and International Relations from the Universities of Conception and Chile, respectively. They too will graduate in 2001.