an award worth $5,000 which will help finance legal studies in the UK.

The news that Ms Scott won the Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation's (CSTF) annual Gladys Neale Award came this week as her mother, Jennifer Scott, and aunt, Kay Dutton, accepted the award on her behalf during a CSTF Bermuda Advisory Council meeting.

The Gladys Neale Award recognises a founding member and chairman of the CSTF Graduate Awards Committee.

The recipient completed her BA Honours in Journalism and Public Relations at Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta and will now take legal studies at Bristol University in England.

While at Bermuda College, Nakia represented the Island in the World School Debating Championships.

At GSU, she was involved in the production of a closed-circuit talk show which won the 1995 Best Talk Show award.

As a member of the school's dance troupe she performed for the Children's Wish Foundation, an organisation which grants the wishes of terminally ill children.

INVESTING IN THE FUTURE -- Representatives of the local advisory board for the Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation present Jennifer Scott, the mother of Nakia Koshea Scott, with $5,000 which will go to her daughter's education.

Shown from left are Jordy Walker, Mansfield Brock, Alex Cooper, Mrs. Scott, Scott Pearman and Albert Jackson.

INVESTING IN THE FUTURE -- Representatives of the local advisory board for the Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation present Jennifer Scott, the mother of Nakia Koshea Scott, with $5,000 which will go to her daughter's education.

Shown from left are Jordy Walker, Mansfield Brock, Alex Cooper, Mrs. Scott, Scott Pearman and Albert Jackson.