SHAL­IZA HAS­SANALI

Se­nior Re­porter

Shal­iza.has­sanali@guardian.co.tt

Amal­ga­mat­ed Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices Ltd (ASSL) has award­ed grants to 48 stu­dents who will be start­ing sec­ondary school to­mor­row.

Dur­ing a func­tion at the ASSL’s Ch­agua­nas of­fice, re­cip­i­ents of the An­tho­ny Joseph Foun­da­tion (AJF) grant were pre­sent­ed with $500 vouch­ers by the se­cu­ri­ty firm’s ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Dr Michael Aboud for their out­stand­ing per­for­mance in the 2023 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion.

Aboud urged the stu­dents to strive for ex­cel­lence and to ap­proach their stud­ies with “ded­i­ca­tion, com­mit­ment and the un­wa­ver­ing be­lief that your po­ten­tial knows no bounds”.

“Em­brace chal­lenges with courage for they are the step­ping stones of great­ness,” he added

Aboud al­so ad­vised the stu­dents to re­main unit­ed by the ideals that dri­ve us for­ward, for­ev­er ho­n­our­ing the mem­o­ry of Joseph and the val­ues he em­bod­ied. He said Joseph not on­ly revered ed­u­ca­tion and un­der­stood its sig­nif­i­cance but al­so recog­nised how its ab­sence can im­pact one’s jour­ney.

“By set­ting your course to­wards suc­cess and up­hold­ing the val­ues of in­tegri­ty, per­se­ver­ance and ex­cel­lence, you will un­doubt­ed­ly leave a mark that echoes through time. I al­so ask each one to re­main pa­tri­ot­ic to our coun­try and help us to make a dif­fer­ence and be part of the so­lu­tion and not the prob­lem,” he said.

The AJF was launched in 2016 by ASSL in mem­o­ry of Cor­po­ral An­tho­ny Joseph, a se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer who died in De­cem­ber 2015 in the line of du­ty. Joseph had served the com­pa­ny for more than 30 years.