BARBADOS IS PREPARING to welcome 88 students from Nigeria, who will pursue a nine-month course of study in the areas of Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Agriculture at the Barbados Community College, beginning in January 2015.
The students are among a number who have been staying in Trinidad and Tobago for the past month.
The first group of 34 was expected to arrive yesterday.
Concerns about Ebola were raised when the group was originally scheduled to arrive and the date was delayed. They were all reportedly tested for Ebola before leaving Nigeria.
Organiser of the trip, Donna St Hill, said though the students had already been medically cleared for travel to Barbados, “we don’t want them to come and have to experience any stigma. We don’t want people to be afraid they cannot deal with them”. (PR/SAT)
