scholarships and teacher training awards to 15 young Bermudians.

Mr. Scott gave an impromptu speech to the students and their families in a ceremony held at CedarBridge Academy, praising them and encouraging them to assist other young people now in the media for the wrong reasons.

And yesterday Sen. Scott congratulated the scholars in the Senate, and touched on the issue of media coverage.

He said that all representatives of the media had been invited to the ceremony, adding: "But the media wasn't able to show up.

"My response was that if they were ready to throw Molotov cocktails,'' Sen.

Scott continued, "ZBM would have been there to record them. All have demonstrated they are prepared to excell. Our community is in good hands irrespective of the glitches that have happened.'' Mr. Scott said the Island's future was bright judging from the academic careers of the students and reminded parents that next years scholarships will increase to $15,000 a year.

There are six Bermuda Government Scholars for 2000 and six teacher training awardees.

The scholars are: Natasha Dowling, who is continuing studies in special education at Kean University in New Jersey. She is a graduate of Whitney Institute and Becker College in Massachusetts; Daren Herbert a performing arts student at the University of Arts in Philadelphia, is a graduate of Warwick Academy; Mature student Llewellyn Trott, a graduate of the Technical Institute, who is studying technology education at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida; Tashae Thompson, an economics student at the University of North Florida, in Jacksonville, earned an associate degree in arts and science at the Bermuda College this year; Nicole Tucker will continue to study journalism at Syracuse University after earning a bachelor of Arts in English at Oakwood College in Alabama. She is a graduate of the Bermuda Institute; And Marissa Wainwright who is studying speech language pathology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Ms Wainwright is a former Police Cadet and attended the Bermuda College after leaving Warwick Academy; Teacher training awards went to: Njeri Asha, who is studying early childhood, elementary education at University of Montevallo, in Alabama; Arlita Bascome, who holds a psychology degree from Bryn Mawr College and soon begins a degree in reading from Columbia University in New York; Karla Binns will continue her studies in early childhood education at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta and Derreka Albouy will continue studying accounting at Andrews University in Michigan; Shay-Coy Bridgewater who is studying psychology at Spelman College in Atlanta; Chay Crockwell who is continuing studying electronic engineering technology at Tampa Technical Institute; Andrew Simons, a graduate of the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut will continue studies in management science and engineering at Stanford University in California; Khamla Smith will begin studies in meteorology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia after getting an associate degree from the Bermuda College. Ms Smith declined the financial remuneration of the award; And Trudy Smith begins business administration studies at Acadia University in Nova Scotia. She also earned an associate degree from the Bermuda College.

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