Education Local News Combermere gets computers from CIBC Caribbean Barbados TodayPublished: 05/04/2024 Updated: 04/04/202401K views Kwame Mascoll, Associate Director, Sales Management, Insurance & Deposits (right) presents one of the 20 laptops to IT Coordinator Sasha Waterman while Allan Mercer, Director, Personal Credit Services (left) Principal Julia Beckles (second left), Deputy Principal Timothy Barrett (third left) Technology Analyst Thierry Jones (third right) and Neil Matthews, Deputy Chief Information Officer (second right), share in the moment. Combermere is the latest school to benefit from CIBC Caribbean’s initiative of donating repurposed laptops and desktops to educational institutions across the region. Bank officials travelled to the Waterford, St Michael school where they presented 20 laptops and 20 desktop computers to the Information Technology Department recently. The donation was received by the school’s principal Julia Beckles accompanied by deputy principal Timothy Barrett and IT Coordinator Sasha Waterman. The donation brings to 300 the number of devices the bank has donated over the years to primary and secondary schools and other educational institutions in Barbados and across the region where the bank has a presence. The bank’s Deputy Chief Information Officer Neil Matthews, in handing over the devices, said: “CIBC Caribbean is happy to continue making a meaningful contribution to education across the region especially in the area of Information technology.” He noted that as laptops and desktops became available as the bank updated its systems, they would be repurposed, and further donations made to schools and colleges. (PR)