Dear Editor/head of News,
I recently learnt (from an up-close birdie, who, over the years, being a birdie, has been flying very high up in officialdom), that the Culture Ministry is sharing out grants to Trinbagonian students at university in Trinbago and abroad. The friend said the grants are...well, grants, thus do not have to be repaid at all, whether by working for the government on completion of the relevant course of study, or by actually paying back what was advanced, with interest, if not.
I find that strange, very strange indeed, especially given that the amount being disbursed ranges between TT$25,000.00 and TT$120,000.00, from what the birdie whispered to me. I find it even more strange that these grants are being...well...granted...to sons and daughters of PNM people, only or mainly, hence why it's Joan Yuille-Williams Ministry not the Ministry of Public Administration or Ministry of Education that's exclusively dealing with this programme.
Now! I have a relative who is at university, so, eager to help, I tried approaching the Culture Ministry to get the details. Guess what? Every time I called or went (at least twenty-five times!) the Doctor woman who ALONE is in charge, was never in office and, daughter-of-a-gun, she never returned any of my several calls, despite whoever answered the phone promising that she would so do.
Meantime, the birdie himself is trying to get one of these grants for his family too. I'll therefore keep close to the birdie, for birds of a feather flock together and, as may be gleaned from what I've written, we're both at one on this.
Yep! That's what a birdie whispered to me.
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