ACMF launches online scholarship portal

The American Caribbean Maritime Foundation (ACMF) is now offering its scholarship and grant application digital with an easy-to-use platform.
The site which accepts applications from high school and tertiary level students was opened from January 1, 2024, with a deadline of April 30 for all applications to be submitted.
“I think students will find the portal easy to use and the platform makes the application more accessible to students across the Caribbean,” the President of the Atlantic Alliance Off-Shore Marine Training Institute, Miranda Thakur-Deen stated.
“Guyana is exploding with opportunity in the oil/gas sector and aspiring young maritime professionals should seize the opportunity to get a scholarship to study with us.”
ACMF has funded full tuition and grants for approximately 200 scholars and grantees in nine Caribbean countries, namely, Guyana, Jamaica, Bahamas, Suriname, St. Lucia, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
“Our focus is on professional positions”, Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Affairs at Manzanillo International Terminal – PANAMA, Juan Carlos Croston stated. He also serves as Chair of the ACMF Scholarship Committee.
“We would love to fund more students in Guyana, particularly residents in the hinterlands who need access to educational opportunity…a point emphasised by First Lady Ali a few months ago in Florida at the ACMF Anchor Awards,” he added.
The Caribbean is competitive in quality of training, diversity of skill sets, and geographic proximity for all workers in the industry. Jamaica alone churns out hundreds of officer-level talents annually, many with Bachelor’s in navigation and engineering. Additionally, the country potentially generates STCW-qualified and rated candidates in the thousands.