St Joseph High School emerged victorious from the finals of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry’s (GBTI) Impromptu Speech Competition held on Wednesday.
St Joseph scored 691 points followed by Stewartville Secondary which scored 598. Speakers displayed much enthusiasm though several of them strayed from their topics, incorporated personal experiences, used poor grammar and mispronounced some very simple words. Some also failed to construct their sentences properly and incorporated phrases such as “discriminate her” as was pointed out by Chief Judge Bonita Hunter who corrected it by inserting the preposition “against”. The judge’s panel also included Kenneth Bentick and Dr Joyce Jonas.
Stewartville Secondary started off the contest with first speaker Kashrell Pyle who made a fair attempt to conquer her topic “If I would travel back in time I would”. She started by pointing out the
