BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - The Washington Archibald High School has won for the third time in succession, the top award in the St. Kitts Nevis Junior Achievement Company Program as the most outstanding participating school during an Award Ceremony held on Friday September 23, 2011 at the ECCB Auditorium.
The Washington Archibald High school was also presented with the “Best Business Plans Award” and the “Best Financial Report Award,” while the Charlestown Secondary School was awarded winner of the “Best Trade Fair Display.”
The Six Junior Achievers for 2011 were Tishania Liburd of the Basseterre High School, Yashida Langley of the Cayon High School), Abyke Sealey of the Charlestown Secondary School, Clayticia Daniel of the Gingerland Secondary School, Damela Williams of the Immacculate Conception Catholic School and Haniff Charles of the Washington Archibald High School.
The most outstanding Junior Achiever Award was won by Yashida Langley of Cayon High School, for which she was also awarded a digital camera, compliments of Courts.
Second place Junior Achiever was won by Damela Williams of the Immaculate Conception Catholic School, who also received a scientific calculator, compliments of the City Drug Store.
A Blackberry phone package, compliments of Digicel, and a dinner for two, compliments of the St. Kitts Marriotts Resort were rewards given to two outstanding teachers in the JA Program. They were Mr Kenrick Liverpool of the Charlestown Secondary School and Mrs Dahlia Hudson of the Washington Archibald High School respectively.
The Awards Ceremony was attended by the Hon. Hensley Daniel, Deputy Premier of Nevis; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Mrs Ionie Liburd Willett; Other representatives in the Ministry of Education on the Nevis Island Administration; Deputy Governor of the ECCB, Mr Trevor Braithwaite; Representatives from the St. Kitts Nevis & Anguilla National Bank and the First Caribbean International Bank, platinum sponsors of the Junior Achievement Company Program, other contributors, donors, and teachers.
Mrs Liburd Willett, during her brief remarks stated that the skills of problem-solving, collaboration, communication, marketing, and the development of creativity, are the skills that high school learners need to experience the realities and opportunities of work and entrepreneurship in the 21st-century global marketplace.
She added that the Junior Achievement program empowers secondary school students to make a meaningful connection between what they learn in school and its application to the real world, thus enhancing the relevance of the classroom instruction, and increasing their understanding of the value of staying in school and making a positive contribution to society.
Junior Achievement is now spearheaded by the St. Kitts-Nevis Chamber of Industry & Commerce in partnership with the Ministry of Education and financial institutions within the framework of an Advisory Committee. The new program is scheduled to commence in October 2011.
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