THE EDITOR, Sir:

WHEN KAVAN won the recent 'Rising Stars' contest and got one million dollars worth of credit, many persons (including myself) cried foul. To us it was mean and absurd for a 'big' company like this to give credit for cash, especially when it is known that the winner was not exactly 'well off'. We saw it as the death of a dream; a classic 'rags to riches' story gone amiss.

But alas! I heard recently from one of my students as we discussed 'corporate stewardship' that Kavan has sold $850,000 worth of credit already. I then summed it all up: Digicel did their corporate stewardship by sponsoring the competition and the winner, to his/her own initiative, is expected to use the principle of private stewardship to make prosperity out of what his/her talent has produced.

Though it is not what we expected; we are always looking for the 'easy money', especially in competitions like these, when we reconsider it this way, we have to declare: well done, Digicel!

I am, etc.,

N. ALEXANDER

nic7lex@hotmail.com