Monica Pryce (third left), information technology teacher of Clarendon College and Jaevion Nelson (third from right), sixth form student of Clarendon College accept the grand prize of an all-expenses paid trip to the United Kingdom from Camille Facey (second left), senior vice-president of legal, regulatory and public policy at Cable and Wireless and Alveta Adderly-Knight (second right), legal officer at Cable and Wireless. Looking on from left are Oliver Clarke, chairman and managing director of The Gleaner Company Ltd., and Hope McMillan, Golocal Jamaica's project manager. - Andrew Smith/Staff Photographer MONICA PRYCE and Jaevion Nelson of Clarendon College won themselves an all expenses paid 10-day trip to London, England after their school was declared overall winner in The Gleaner's Go-Local Jamaica 'Show Your Community to the World' Competition.
The elated team members, who hail from the hills of Chapelton, Clarendon, were yesterday presented with the prize by Camille Facey, senior vice-president of legal, regulatory and public policy at Cable and Wireless Jamaica Ltd., the sponsor of the prize. The presentation was made at the North Street, downtown Kingston offices of The Gleaner Company.
The prize trip includes airfare, hotel accommodation, meal allowances, spending money and a one-week scholarship at the Cable and Wireless Childnet Academy in London for two representatives from the Clarendon College website team.
The team from Clarendon was selected after six months of intense competition among 30 schools which entered the competition from across the island. The competition required schools to submit interesting articles and material about their school and community on the Go-Local Jamaica website.
"I feel really elated to know that we have won the competition and that I have been chosen to go to London, England to represent my school and to be an ambassador for Jamaica also," Jaevion Nelson remarked.
Ms. Facey in congratulating the team, also commended The Gleaner Company for launching the competition. In fact, she said this was tantamount to the efforts being made by Cable and Wireless in the United Kingdom to promote and encourage students from around the world to develop top quality websites through its Childnet Academy.
Also present at the function were: Kamal Powell and Simone Givans, members of the Clarendon College team; Marlene Davis, manager of The Gleaner Online Ltd; Hope McMillan, project manager of Go-Local Jamaica and Carmen Wade-Barrett, content editor of Go-Jamaica and Alveta Adderly-Knight, legal officer at Cable and Wireless.
