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THE DAILY HERALD, Thursday, March 16, 2017 Islands 17

ST. KITTS--The Bronte tion we feed to the children The Consumer Affairs as well as business places
Welsh Primary School was they can feed it on to their officer explained why the out there to come on board,
this year’s victor at the sec- parents who are working Department had decided to donate and contribute, be-
ond annual Department of and would be spending the have an annual quiz. cause whatever we collect
Consumer Affairs Primary money on them.” “We figured that having a from those business places
School Quiz held on March Topics covered during the quiz rather than a spelling we give back to the students
15, which aimed at impart- quiz included Consumer B or a reading competition and we give them material
ing consumer knowledge to in the Caribbean Commu- [was best – Ed.], because that they can read …,” he
children and by extension nity Caricom, Competition through the quiz we know said.
their parents or guardians. Law and Policy, and A Wise the children’s minds would Fough said that the De-
Consumer Affairs Officer Consumer. Other partici- be ticking,” he said. “So, partment of Consumer Af-
Vincent Fough said that it is pating schools included the therefore, whatever ques- fairs utilises the week of
vital to educate consumers Immaculate Conception tions are being asked on a activities as an opportunity
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on their rights and respon- Catholic School, Tucker broad scenario, we think to spread the word on con-
Winners of the Department of Consumer Affairs Primary
sibilities as they navigate in Clarke Primary School and that the children should sumers’ rights and respon- School Quiz receive their trophy.
the marketplace. He said the Violet-Petty Primary be able to answer those sibilities as well as other in-
that children are essential School. Fough said that the questions and much more formation that can benefit competition and anybody Department of Consumer
to passing along that infor- children were very knowl- information, from my per- consumers. who opens a business has Affairs, prize-giving to per-
mation. edgeable of the topics pre- sonal view, would be spread “Without the consumers, competition; and for you sons who participated in
“We figured in order to get sented. across all consumers.” businesses cannot survive to get consumers you have the recent Consumer Af-
our word out there, we uti- “I must say for the second Fough said that more and once the consumers to be competitive and with- fairs radio programme and
lised the children because year and listening to some schools and businesses know their rights and re- out being a competitive to wrap up, an island-wide
they are the ones who pass of the students I can see should come on board to sponsibilities and as long business person consum- motorcade which will be
along the message,” said that they spent some time participate in the quiz. as consumers are educated ers would not patronise the held on Saturday, March
Fough. “Even though they going through the ques- “I just want to say from the in consumer matters, we business.” 18, at 11:00am to reach out
are not persons of work and tions and answers, because Department of Consumers figure that business places Other activities planned to persons in the rural areas
class, they are the ones most the information was sent Affairs that we hope that will be better off,” he said. for the week of activities in- to familiarise them with the
effective when it comes to them,” he said. “I can other schools can partake “They may be able to have clude the funeral service of recently launched Consum-
to spending or purchasing see that a lot of them have in the next Consumer Af- a better business going. the late Charlton Edwards, er Affairs App, The SKN
anything. So, the informa- learnt a lot from the quiz.” fairs Primary School Quiz They would survive in the Permanent Secretary in the Shopper.

ST. KITTS--One lucky sonal biases. “Not everyone such an opportunity,” she
child between the age of would excel in academics or added.
eight and sixteen years has sports. There are other av- The winner also gets an
the opportunity to leave an enues that they can excel in airbrush set, art supplies
indelible mark on the 34th including the artistic field.” and free registration for the
Annual Summer Residen- The designs should fea- Summer Camp while his/her
tial Camp by producing a ture no more than two co- school will receive a screen-
design that will be featured lours and be submitted on printing starter set. The top
on official camp documents 8.5”x11” paper. five submissions will receive
and promotional materials. Youth Officer Creque said gift vouchers for supplies.
This can be done through winning the competition The submission deadline
participation in the T-Shirt is a feather in the cap for is Friday, March 31. Reg-
Design Challenge for the the student. “This is a tre- istration forms and com-
summer event, which is or- mendous accolade to add petition rules are available
ganised by the Department to their resume. Imagine from the Department of
of Youth Empowerment. having your very own de- Youth Empowerment on
The design must reflect the sign, at such a young age, Church Street. Additional
theme of the camp which is on over 300 T-Shirts. That’s information is available by
“Empowering Our Youth amazing. Not many of our calling 467-1393 or email
to Soar for Much More; established artists have had youth@gov.kn .
Summer Camp 34.”
Youth Officer Suelika
Creque said a number of
designs had been submit-
ted for consideration last
year and the eventual win-
ner was Earlene Webbe, a
student of the Charles E.
Mills Secondary School
(CEMSS). This year, the
youth staff hopes to get
even more and Creque has
called on art teachers, par-
ticularly in the high schools,
to help motivate their stu-
dents.
“And I also want to urge
other stakeholders and per-
sons in the community, who
invest in young people, to
get them involved,” Creque
said, noting that some-
times adults force children
to participate in activities
they are not interested in
because of their own per-