Barnaby, Sutherland, and Blake
Barbara Ellington, Features Co-ordinator
FARRAH BLAKE, University of Technology third-year student of Business and Management, Tyrone Sutherland, who is a second year Business Administration student at Northern Caribbean University, and Carole Barnaby, a student at the University of the West Indies, are the winners of The Sunday Gleaner's "Independence/Essay Competition."
The competition which ran during the months of July and August, as part of The Sunday Gleaner's observance of Jamaica's 40th anniversary of Independence, was open to currently enrolled Jamaican undergraduate students of the island's three universities. There were 29 entries.
The scholarships, which cover tuition, are donated by Michael Lee Chin chairman of both AIC Funds and National Commercial Bank; Gordon Tewani, managing director of Mall Jewellers and Audrey Marks, managing director of Paymaster Jamaica Limited and Jamaica's Promise.
The three winners earned the highest marks for their respective universities.
Miss Barnaby chose the topic: "Jamaica would be better off economically and socially if it had remained a colony of Britain." Discuss using arguments for and against this often expressed view.
Miss Blake chose the topic: Compare and contrast the contribution of National Heroes Sir Alexander Bustamante and Norman Washington Manley to Jamaica's Independence movement.
And for his essay, Mr. Sutherland selected: "In his book 'Caribbean Organisation' Locksley Lindo points out that 'organisations are creatures of their environment." Comment, referring specifically to Jamaica and its developmment over the last 40 years.
The three essays will be published in the In Focus section of The Sunday Gleaner, starting next week. The scholarships will be presented next month.
The judges were Janneth Mornan-Green, communications consultant and UWI part-time lecturer, Phillipia Phillips, head of the Publications and Advertising Department of the Jamaica Information Service and Ealane Livingston-Smith, a communications consultant.
Among the judges' concerns about the quality of the 29 entries received were the students' failure to balance arguments; problems with use of the language; circumlocution; weakness with spelling; failure to develop arguments fully; lack of focus; and problems with grammar.
