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Public primary schools host joint graduation

COLE BAY--Some 194 pupils celebrated their graduation with a joint school leaving exercise for St. Maarten's six public primary schools, in a ceremony filled with song under the banner "Why fit in when you were born to stand out?" held Friday morning at Princess Port de Plaisance Resort.

Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Affairs Rita Bourne-Gumbs and Head of Division of Public Education Glenderlin Davis-Holiday joined family members of the pupils, and past and present school officials of the Leonald Conner School, Marie Genevieve de Weever School, Oranje School, Ruby Labega Primary School, Dr Read more

Foundation plans scholarship for highest scoring FBE pupil

PHILIPSBURG--Together We Can Foundation announced on Wednesday that it plans to grant a full highschool scholarship to the highest-scoring pupil of the 2015 foundation based education (FBE) exams.

This, the Foundation said via press release, is the mere reason of holding the Battle of The Fittest Tournament, amongst other types of fundraisers. “This tournament will take place in the month of July and we are encouraging companies to make a donation. Proceeds of these events will go towards the scholarship fund and other social projects we intend on executing in the near future.”

The foundation said that it hoped to be able to assist many more pupils in the future, possibly all who score a certain grade point average (GPA), if the foundation manages to raise sufficient funds Read more