Yana Marisa Edwards receiving her award for being the country’s top CSEC student from Minister in the Ministry of Education, Desrey Fox. The occasion was the National Education Awards Ceremony held at the National Cultural Centre yesterday.
Vickram Deonarine of Anna Regina Secondary receiving his award yesterday for being one of the top junior secondary performers from Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Pulandar Kandhi. The other awardees in this category were Rahul Lall and Yashoda Narine also of Anna Regina Secondary.
Yogeeta Persaud of CV Nunes Primary was one of three students who received awards yesterday for topping the National Grade Six Assessment. The others were Sayyid Rajab of ISA and Arianna Seeraj of St Margaret’s. In photo, Persaud receives her award from ACEO (secondary) Melcita Bovell.
Congrats to all the successful students who wrote the various exams recently … especially to Yana Marisa, who is the daughter of a good friend of mine. I am prou of all of them, their parents and teachers … as a small nation we should do something to make the outstanding students ‘household names’ like we do for other endeavors such as sports … and better yet organise and deliver better awards to them, especially from the government and the private sector.