Photo: Moses Shyne Barrow and Sean Diddy Combs

BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Nov. 10, 2022

According to an announcement made yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition, Hon. Moses “Shyne” Barrow, a Belizean student may get the opportunity to attend Howard University. The former Bad Boy rapper has teamed up with his former boss and mentor Sean “Diddy” Combs to give at least one student the opportunity to study in a select field at Howard University in Washington, DC. 

The Sean Diddy Combs Belize Full Scholarship, as it has been dubbed, will give a financially challenged student from Belize the opportunity to study in the field of either business, tech, or education at one of the United States’ most prestigious historically black universities, Howard, Barrow stated in his release yesterday. 

In the announcement made on social media yesterday, Barrow said, “Education has always been extremely important to my dear brother Diddy and I. Thus, in that vein, I asked Diddy to make Belize a part of his philanthropic support for his alma mater Howard University so that at least one Belizean student can get the benefit of attending one of the United States’ most prestigious HBC universities.”

Diddy received an honorary degree in Humanities from Howard in 2014, and reportedly attended the college in the late ‘80s, but dropped out after two years before completing a degree.

Interested applicants must have completed 6th form studies and have an interest in attaining a Bachelor’s degree in one of the fields that have been designated as priority areas of study. They must have a GPA of 3.0 and above, come from a financially challenged household, and write a letter that explains how their studies at Howard would be of benefit to Belize. They are expected to return to the country after receiving their degree.

E-mails from interested applicants should be sent to [email protected].