Olivia is all round top performer
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Olivia Alleyne, second right, being congratulated by Deryck Murray,
Guardian Life of the Caribbean’s Vice President Employee Benefits, on
winning the HSFB’s 2007 Essay Competition. Joining in are, left, Keila
Worrell, Poster Competition winner, and CEO of the HSFB, Adrian Randall.
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This year’s top performer in the Barbados Secondary Schools’
Entrance Examination, Olivia Alleyne, is no stranger to excellence when it comes
to academic achievement. The outstanding primary school student of Christ Church
Girls’ School earlier signaled her prowess in essay writing by winning the Heart
& Stroke Foundation of Barbados’ (HSFB) Essay Competition for two consecutive
years, in 2006 and 2007. On each occasion she captured the first prize of a
voucher for $400, plus a year’s subscription to National Kids Geographic
Magazine.
The Annual Poster and Essay Competition for Primary Schools
is organized by the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados in partnership with
Guardian Life of the Caribbean Limited, in recognition of World Heart Day.
Students between the ages of 5 and 8 years are invited to draw or paint a poster
using a selected health theme, while those between 9 and 11 are asked to write
an essay of not more than 350 words on the same theme. Prizes in each category
are $400 for first, $200 for second and $100 for third. Each winner also
receives a one-year subscription to National Kids Geographic Magazine, while the
school producing the first prize winner gets a prize to the value of $1,000.
CEO of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados, Adrian
Randall, congratulated Olivia on her achievement. “Winning the Essay Competition
two years running was quite an feat, and to top it off by taking first place in
the Common Entrance examination is truly remarkable.”
“It is pleasing to see one of the Foundation’s family, as it
were, do so well”, Randall continued, “and we look forward to her continuing to
achieve great heights in the years to come”.
Randall said that he also looked forward to the students in
this year’s Poster and Essay Competition emulating Olivia’s excellent standards.
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