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Published:Friday | September 23, 2011 | 12:00 AM
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Board Chairman of IGL Asraph Ali (left) and General Manager Sharon Thomas (right), rap with Romar Bent and Michell Hunter, two of the company's Razai Rahaman Scholarship for Medicine winners. - photos by Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Imtiaz Rahaman (right), executive director at IGL, listens keenly to Devon Anderson, IGL's head of industrial and medical gas.
We think the group of (from left) Dr Trevor McCartney, Kareen Blake, Lyttleton Shirley and Professor Wayne McLaughlin may be talking medicine.
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When it comes to helping our nation's youth, this gas company isn't just all hot air.

On Monday, IGL fêted six bright young people at its 2011 Scholarship Awards ceremony. Five of the students: Kaydeen Morris, Romar Bent, Latoya Gayle, Michell Hunter and Matthew Lyew, received the 2011 Razai Rahaman Scholarship for Medicine, while Trace-Ann Gooden was the sole recipient of the IGL Legacy Scholarship for Nursing.

The latter award was created to recognise and support students of the University of the West Indies' nursing programme, while the Razai Rahaman scholarships are named after an IGL director. Like the Legacy scholarship, it rewards academic success, community involvement and financial need for students in the medical sciences.

The scholarship ceremony, complete with live music and a post-awards reception, was held at the UWI's Mona Visitors' Lodge.