{"id":210557,"date":"2026-04-26T21:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210557\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:11:13","slug":"afuwi-director-on-expanding-education-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/210557\/","title":{"rendered":"AFUWI director on expanding education in the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann-Marie Grant, the executive director for the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies, joins &#8220;In Focus&#8221; with NY1&#8217;s Cheryl Wills to discuss\u00a0the foundation\u2019s commitment to expanding educational opportunities in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>She says through scholarships, the foundation aims to cultivate a more educated population; better equipped to rebuild Jamaica and to break cycles of generational poverty.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ann-Marie Grant, the executive director for the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies, joins &#8220;In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7488,7490,7489,7423,7487,9,24,55,54,56,200],"class_list":["post-210557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-in-focus","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-dana-perez","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}