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Kaye Williams, Chair of the RCS Barbados Branch.

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The Gold Award in the Junior Category of the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition was presented to Samuel Lamontagne of Providence School.

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For the first time there was a Gold Award Finalist in the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition, deemed eligible to be included in the 140 finalists put forward for consideration for the overall top global awards. Nicholas Taylor of Providence School took that award.

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A section of the audience gathered for the Award Programme for the winners of the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition.

RCS Barbados paying attention to youth

THE Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) – Barbados Branch recognises the role which youth must play within our society and seeks to give prominence to the voices of youth, via its programmes.

Kaye Williams, Chair of the RCS Barbados Branch, noted the above as she delivered remarks during the Award Programme for the winners of the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition, which was held at the British High Commissioner’s Residence at Ben Mar, Erdiston Road, St. Michael.

“We the Barbados Branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society are delighted to be a part of a platform that nurtures the creative talents of our young people and it’s our young people in Barbados and across the Commonwealth. We endeavour to protect literacy, expression and celebrate excellence and imagination,” she said of the RCS Barbados’ efforts to have youth compete in the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition.

Williams also told the students that they must see themselves not only as citizens of Barbados, but as citizens of the Commonwealth and citizens of the world.

“As you grow and mature, we encourage you to continue to express yourself locally, globally and we encourage you to build on your creativity and your imagination,” Williams further admonished.

Brenda Pope, Chair of the Education Subcommittee of the RCS Barbados Branch, meanwhile noted that in 2019, over 11 000 young people from across the Commonwealth entered the competition, 30 of whom were from Barbados. The 2019 topic invited young people to share on the topic of “A Connected Commonwealth” and to consider how they could work to ensure cultural, technological and environmental connections for positive change.

The local award entries included submissions from nine girls and three boys, for a total of 12 students in all from four schools. Repeat winner Kya Knight of the Deighton Griffith Secondary School was the winner of a Gold Award in the Senior Category of the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition. The Gold Award in the Junior Category of the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition was presented to Samuel Lamontagne of Providence School.

For the first time, there was a Gold Award Finalist in the 2019 Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition, deemed eligible to be included in the 140 finalists put forward for consideration for the overall top global awards. Nicholas Taylor of Providence School took that award.

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