October 3rd, 2016 -- Over the past two plus decades a group of past students of the Sandy Point High School (SPHS) has made meaningful annual contributions in support of the students, staff, and teachers of schools in Sandy Point.
The Sandy Point Primary School has been the beneficiary of some of these awards. As of 2012, SPBS expanded the cash scholarship to include the valedictorian from the Newton Ground and St Paul’s primary schools, bringing the total to three (3) primary schools valedictorian, attending the Charles E. Mills Secondary School (CEMSS), each receiving a $300 scholarship.
We have gone from three (3) scholarships of US$300 each to the Valedictorian from each of the feeder schools (SPBS Principal's Awardees) to the CEMSS to:
• a scholarship of US$400 to each of the SPBS Principal's Awardees upon graduating from SPHS/CEMSS
• another US$500 to each of those same SPBS Principal's Awardees upon graduation from the Clarence F. Bryant College
• another SPBS scholarship of US$1000 to each of the SPBS Principal's Awardees upon attending a college or University to obtain an undergraduate degree
• a SPBS scholarship of US$1000 to a needy graduate of SPHS/CEMSS studying any where in the world
• The Sir Hugh and Lady Claudette Rawlins Graduate Scholarship of US$2000 to any graduate of CEMSS pursuing graduate studies
• The Ridley Guishard Memorial Scholarship to two (2) socio-economically challenged natives of Sandy Point and graduates of SPHS/CEMSS pursuing an undergraduate or higher degree, each valued at US$2500 and
• Three (3) Warner's Excellence in Education Scholarships (WEE Scholarships) each valued at US$500 to two (2) students from SPHS/CEMSS with the best CXC results and one (1) from Verchilds High School with the best CXC results.
Over the years of our existence, we have made substantial donations to SPHS/CEMSS, but in 2015 we made a donation of a state of the art intercom to the tune of over twenty thousand dollars (US$20,000). In 2016 we are donating a 26-piece Steel Pan Orchestra valued at some twenty six thousand dollars (US$26,000).
This year to mark the 50th Anniversary of the existence of the SPHS/CEMSS, SPBS is hosting our 6th Annual Banquet in St. Kitts at the St. Kitts Marriot Resort, Frigate Bay. It will be held under the Distinguished Patronage of the Honorable Shawn K. Richards, Deputy Prime Minister of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture and Parliamentary Representative of Constituency 5, the area where CEMSS is situated. He is also an Alumnus of the school. The Guest Speaker for this auspicious occasion is a 1979 Alumnus of SPHS, Mr. Ulester Douglas. Mr. Douglas is a Psychotherapist by profession and the Executive Directive of Men Stopping Violence against Women, located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The gala will be on December 26, 2016 from 7 pm until. Tickets are on sale for EC$200/US$80. Get your tickets in St. Kitts from past students and teachers of SPHS/CEMSS, at Benjax Supermarket, Mount Idle, Sandy Point. In the USA from members of SPBS. In Anguilla at Paramount Pharmacy.
Get your tickets early as they are going very fast. Already they are more than 60% sold out. Don't delay until the night as there might be no tickets on sale at the venue and you cannot enter without a ticket.
Tickets can also be bought from the following persons in St. Kitts:
• Dorita Lewis
• Theodore Brown (DJ BJ)
• Joycie Richards
• Kenrick Isaac
• Shermin Stevens
• Jackiema Flemming
• Andrea Liddie
• Stacey Gumbs
• Vincent Hodge
• Stephen Duggins
• Elsa Revan
• Dorinda Lapsey
• COP Ian Queeley
• Patrick Williams
• Anthony Wiltshire
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