By Petrina Francis, Education ReporterA NUMBER of Bahamian students at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) are withdrawing from their course of study as a result of the brutal murder of their fellow countryman, Joseph Burrows.
Rhoma Tomlinson, director of public relations at NCU, told The Gleaner yesterday that some of the Bahamian students have expressed their desire to leave.
VERY CONCERNED
While unable to give the number of students who are pulling out, Ms. Tomlinson said that there are currently 42 Bahamian students enrolled at the institution. She noted that the parents of some of the Bahamian students are "very concerned", so a number of them have decided to pull out.
However, the director of public relations said that the Student Development Office is doing everything to encourage the students to stay.
QUITE SADDENED
"The university is still quite saddened but we are heartened by the fact that the country has come out to support us," she said.
She said classes are continuing but there is a "sort of gloom around the university". "As strange as it may seem, we have seen a more united NCU (as a result of the recent incident)," Ms. Tomlinson added.
Joseph Burrows, a 22-year-old biology student, went missing on November 6 after leaving home about 10:30 p.m. to purchase a snack for his daughter at a fast food outlet in Mandeville. His partially decomposed body was found days later in bushes near the Windalco mud lake off the Winston Jones Highway in Manchester.
