Colombian gov't scholarships galore But Jamaicans not applying for them......"We offer 15 scholarships a year to Jamaicans to study in Colombia, but nobody applies,"

THE Colombian Government has been trying to entice Jamaicans to study in that country for several years, but there have been no takers, one of its senior diplomats has said.

"We offer 15 scholarships a year to Jamaicans to study in Colombia, but nobody applies," bemoaned Deputy Head of Mission at the Colombian Embassy in Kingston William Bush. "Now we are promoting the fact that we have these scholarships," Bush told the Jamaica Observer.

The diplomat in an interview with the Sunday Observer last week, said that qualified Jamaicans would study at various locations across the country as part of a wider arrangement of cooperation between Jamaica and Colombia that has several other education components. Read more: