Business-minded students from across Bermuda won the chance to experience working in a bank first hand thanks to a training programme by the Bank of Bermuda.

The Recruit Extraordinary People (REP) Programme reception, which was last week, was attended by the Bank of Bermuda's CEO Phil Butterfield and and other members of MANCO, as well as the graduate trainees and some of the principals, vice-principals and teachers from the high schools.

The programme, which has been running since 2004, offers two-year holiday employment contracts to the top two Bermudian graduates from each of the Island's high schools.

The two-year term starts the summer after their first year of college/university, and if the students accept the offer, they are guaranteed employment during their summer and Christmas holidays over the two years.

Among those students who attended the reception were the Berkeley Institute's Jeremy Suderaraj and Sherrita Arorash, the Bermuda High School's Emily Ross and Aliyyah Ahad, Ronue Cann and Kornelia White from the Bermuda Institute, Sanae Russell and Jasmine Whitehurst from Cedarbridge, Mount St. Agnes' Matthew Sinclair and Devin McCallum, Oliver Riihiluoma of Saltus, and Carika Weldon and Erin Vickers from Warwick Academy.