DISCOVERY Bauxite for 2022 continued its supports of youth in education.
The programme, valued at $8 million, includes financial grants and bursaries to 80 students attending tertiary institutions, and awards the 62 top-performing boy and girl in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations from the 31 all-age and primary schools in the company’s operating areas.
“The awards recognize academic as well as all-round performance and achievement, and we are satisfied that most have exhibited the high standards set by the qualification criteria,” said Discovery Bauxite’s vice-president and Country Manager Delroy Dell.
In congratulating the recipients, he pointed out that the success achieved by previous awardees, many of whom became distinguished doctors, lawyers, educators, government leaders, scientists, and engineers in their professional lives, was built on a disciplined approach to their studies which if followed could open similar career paths for the present awardees.
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He said that the examination results indicated a determination to achieve excellence by the scholars who are from over 50 districts and townships across the company’s mining and shipping operational areas, and that their success is a credit to the interest in their well-being demonstrated by their teachers and parents.
Dell was speaking to a representative set of scholars from the cohort of 150 students who have been awarded grants and scholarships by his company for the 2022-23 school year.
Discovery Bauxite also offers six major university scholarships per year for students pursuing first degree courses across engineering, social sciences, natural sciences, business, agriculture, medicine, education, and sports disciplines.
About Discovery Bauxite
The Discovery Bauxite company is very active in supporting the St Ann community and communities surrounding our mining areas. The company routinely engage in educational assistance, sports, business, environment, and agricultural endeavors.Numerous students have taken advantage of the Discovery Bauxite Jamaica 50 scholarship program to further their education.
The company also support two Community Skills Training Centres built in our manufacturing plant and mining areas. These Centres offer educational development in craft skills.
Discovery Bauxite, a subsidiary of Atlantic Alumina, is partnered with the Government of Jamaica in the Discovery Jamaica Bauxite Partners II operations, located on the North Coast of Jamaica. Here, they dry and ship more than 5 million dry metric tons of bauxite per year, and we have been for over 60 years.
Because of Jamaica’s low-silica high-quality bauxite, it is well suited for global alumina and cement industries. Aluminum production starts with the strip mining of the raw material bauxite, which is a clay-like soil found near the equator. Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a high aluminum content and is the world’s leading resource for creating aluminum products.
At their North Coast of Jamaica operations, the company ship high-quality bauxite with a silica content of less than 2% that is shipped in small particle sizes for a more cost-efficient product. The bauxite can be used in the cement industry due to its high alumina content and low freight costs. It can also be processed for alumina, which is the white powder used to create aluminum in metal plants.
Discovery Bauxite prides themselves on “mining, railroading, drying & shipping bauxite as a safe, productive & profitable enterprise, exercising care & concern for the environment & the community, operating as a responsible corporate citizen.”
Source: $8m awarded to scholars by Discovery Bauxite as published in the Jamaica Observer.
