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Prof Courtenay Bartholomew.
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Prof Courtenay Bartholomew died on Friday night at age 89.
Bartholomew was a physician, scientist and author who impacted the medical field extending beyond T&T’s shores as he diagnosed the first case of Aids in the English-speaking Caribbean in 1983.
His death comes during the COVID-19 pandemic which has engulfed the world in sickness and death. The current pandemic comes 40 years after he was battling another pandemic the Aids pandemic which left the world similarly terrified.
Top marks, but engineering student left off list
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Sabita Mahase mother of scholarship winner Shania Ramsumair.
Knowing her mother’s struggles as a single parent, Shania Ramsumair studied from night into the wee hours of the morning to ensure she got top grades in the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) so that her mother would not have to pay her university fees.
While there were tears of joy yesterday when the Ministry of Education announced scholarship winners, it was painful for Ramsumair. The exceptional former student of Laksmi Girls’ Hindu College, St Augustine got all Grade ones in four subject areas in 2020. She got top marks in her profile grades for Caribbean Studies, Chemistry Unit 2, Physics Unit 2 and Pure Mathematics Unit 2.