Serving our Members…Impacting Lives Positively; this is the slogan of the JTA Co-op Credit Union. It is a motto that the organization has been following for nearly two decades and with each passing year the truthfulness of this statement has been proven over and over. On August 30, 2024, The JTA Co-op Credit Union awarded scholarships, grants and bursaries to three distinct groups of winners to help them start the school year right.
The first group of awardees is our PEP Bursary Awardees. These students are children of members of the Credit Union who performed very well in the recent PEP exams and will be entering high school in September 2024. A total of 39 students will be awarded this year, three from each parish.
First-place PEP Awardees who were present at the awards function. They are flanked by the Credit Union’s General Manager Mr. Robert Ramsay and the Board Treasurer Mr. Cyril Lebert.
The second group of awardees are two local schools. Roger Clarke High and Edwin Allen High, are winners in our Better Schools…Better Jamaica programme. Roger Clarke High will receive a total of $1m to construct a cosmetology laboratory at their school while Edwin Allen High will receive $500,000 to complete a waste recycling project. Both projects are aimed at enhancing the teaching and learning experiences at the institutions.
First and second-place winners of the 2024 Better Schools Better Jamaica programme Roger Clarke High and Edwin Allen High receive funding to complete their projects.
The final group of awardees are members of the Credit Union. These are educators who are members of the Credit Union and are pursuing further studies and have distinguished themselves in their studies as well as the teaching profession.
JTA Credit Union 2024 Tertiary Scholars including in the picture are Mr. Robert Ramsay, Cyril Lebert, Mrs. Suezette Hemmings-Bryan (HRD Manager JTA Credit Union) and Mrs. Gloria Gascoigne (widower of founding father of the Credit Union Desmond Gascoigne).
In total the Credit Union has awarded $6.2m to these three groups, this is not merely money given as financial aid, it represents the JTA Credit Union’s investment in the future of our society. It represents hope, opportunity, and reenforces the truthfulness of that old adage that says; “hard work pays.”
Amid the excitement at the start of the 2024/2025 school year the JTA Co-op Credit Union is doing its part in helping our members, their children and at least two schools to start the new year right.
