Antiguan and Barbudan students are being afforded an opportunity to complete their tertiary studies with a scholarship from the country’s oldest indigenous bank.  

The Antigua Commercial Bank Louis H. Lockhart Scholarship targets students who are enrolled in or have been accepted by an accredited college, university or vocational educational institution.  Preference will be given to completion of the final year of the study. 

Scholarships for study at non-regional institutions would be considered only where the course of study is not available at a regional institution. 

Application forms can down loaded from the Bank’s website at www.acbonline.com. 

The deadline for application is 31 May, 2010. 

Last year’s winner was Phylena Richards. She is completing a Bachelor of Science in Accounting at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. 

This Scholarship has become one of the most successful and prestigious scholarship programmes in Antigua & Barbuda with all of the winners graduating with first class honours.  

The Antigua Commercial Bank Louis H. Lockhart Scholarship was conceived and implemented to honour the contribution of one of the founders of the Bank, Sir Louis H. Lockhart.  The scholarship was first launched in 1993 and a number of scholars have benefited in a various fields of study. 

Antigua Commercial Bank offers this programme as part of its commitment to invest in our young people and to contribute to the social and economic development of our country.