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National/Additional Scholarships
based on Advanced Level Examinations
–
approximately $110 million expended to pay personal maintenance, book
allowances, special equipment fees, warm clothing allowance and tuition
fees for nine hundred and eighty-nine (989) new and continuing students
Annual Scholarship and Technical Assistance Programme
– approximately
$10 million was utilised to pay tuition and allowances of sixty-seven (67)
current students and forty-five (45) new scholars
Undergraduate Scholarship Scheme for Students with Disabilities
–
approximately $1.2 million used to pay tuition and allowances for eight (8)
current students and five (5) new scholars
Arrears of Scholarships
– approximately $5 million was utilised to pay
increment arrears and back pay to teachers on scholarship
Programme of Development Scholarships for Public Servants
–
approximately $10.8 million was expended for payment of tuition and
allowances of twenty-five (25) scholars
Postgraduate Scholarships
– approximately $20 million was expended to
finance tuition and allowances for eighty-three (83) current students with
First Class degrees and for two hundred (200) students who will graduate
with First Class Honors at the end of the current academic year.
Libraries
178.
The National Library and Information System Authority utilised $50 million, for
the Libraries Programme, Trinidad. An investment of $6 million was made toward the
purchase of books and materials for twenty-three (23) public libraries throughout the
country, four (4) mobile libraries and four (4) libraries located in correctional institutions.
179.
The construction of new libraries continued with the Rio Claro, Mayaro and
Couva libraries substantially completed at a total cost of $52.7 million. Construction
works on Chaguanas, library is twenty-seven per cent (27%) complete, piling has been
completed along with the construction of all pile caps and ground beams. The ground
floor slab and all ground floor columns were completed. Work commenced on
construction of the first floor slab which is forty-five per cent (45%) complete.
Approximately eighty-five per cent (85%) of the southern boundary wall has been
completed along with fabrication and installation of rebar to approximately seventy-five
per cent (75%) of the first floor beams. Installation of formwork to the first floor beam
has commenced and is about forty per cent (40%) complete.
180.
Under the upgrade of public libraries facilities, refurbishment and extension of
Sangre Grande Library continued. The ground floor, first floor and external works are
approximately eighty-five per cent (85%), seventy per cent (70%), and eighty per cent
(80%) complete respectively. A restoration architect was selected for the restoration of
the Heritage Library.
