Five students were given thousands of dollars in cash from the Bank of Butterfield to help them with their studies yesterday.

There were two scholarship winners who get $20,000 per year for up to four years.

Oxford University and Bermuda High School for Girls graduate Joanna Sherratt gets the Postgraduate Scholarship, in memory of Sir. A Dudley Spurling, which will help her study towards her studies in Medicine at Nottingham University in England.

And Tara Kessaram, who graduated from the United World College and the Bermuda High School for Girls gets the Undergraduate Scholarship, in honour of Sir Harry D. Butterfield, which will help her study towards a degree in Medicine at the University College, London this autumn.

And three students will get the Butterfield Overseas Education Bursaries, worth $20,000 a year for up to two years, to help them with undergraduate studies overseas.

Former Berkeley Institute and Florida Community College student Tariq Lynch-Wade will use the money for his Aviation Management and Flight Operations degree at Jacksonville University in Florida.

Keilyn Lightbourne studied at Warwick Secondary School, Bermuda College and Mount Saint Vincent University.

She is now studying for a Bachelor of Arts at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Virginia.

The third bursary winner is Katrina Kawaley-Lathan, who was educated at Saltus Grammar School. She is about to begin her Bachelor of Science at Queen's University in Ontario.