The Dominica State College (DCS) has emerged champion of a debate competition with the Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC) of St. Lucia.
The event, titled Debate Battle of The Colleges, was held on Friday July 7, 2023 in St. Lucia.
In the first of two debates in the competition, the Dominica State College Literary and Debating Society represented by Ajani Shillingford, Khalil Stoute and Bijoux Desiree, put up a strong fight against the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College.
The DSC team scored 1015 points to SALCC 1104 points, allowing team SALCC to claim victory in that debate for which the topic was “The benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) outweigh the potential risks to humanity”.
The SALCC proposed the moot and the DSC opposed.
In the second debate, the DSC was represented by Janice Corbette, Megann Mendes and Sasha Maxwell. They opposed the moot “The key cause of gang culture in the Caribbean is the prevalence of debilitated families.” They scored 1154 points to SALCC’s 1032, soundly defeating the St. Lucia college them and securing a win for the DSC debate team.
The Dominica State College was declared the overall champion of the competition between the two schools, amassing a grand total of 2169 points in contrast to 2136 points from the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College.
The judges praised the DSC team for their consistency throughout both debates of the competition and the SALCC team described them as formidable opponents.
Congratulations to Ms. Trudy Christian and the Dominica State College team for winning the debate series against your Stm Lucian colleagues. This splendid victory puts to shame cowards in high office who fear that a debate will expose them as shallow. Folks do continue the good debate and prepare to take your rightful place as leaders in our community.
Because bright minds a brighter than you.Linton went to the Privy council representing himself in a legal matter,and you know he did not know the difference between May have and MUST have.Matt Peltier once asked Linton about his CV on q95 and Linton asked Matt what is a CV.I am sure you remember the Aljazeera …………… matter.Linton said the signature on the MOU was his but he knew nothing about the contents.That is the man you want to see as Prime Minister.Dominicas are not stupid.
How come there are no pictures of the opposing school.
ADMIN: We received the photos from the Dominican team.
We have not been able to acquire photos of the St. Lucian team.
Provided we do, we will update the article.
Id have hoped they would have won. Congrats.
Congratulations are in order.
Disappointed that more than ten hours this is posted and no one has congratulated the team. Let us be proud! This is the result of hard work and dedication by all connected to this institution. Greater things are ahead. Continue to strive for excellence
Congratulations to Ms Trudy Christian and the debating team. We’ll done guys and more success in future debates.
Well done team Dominica!!! HOORAY!!!
It’s unfortunate though, that you all did not travel with Skerrit.
As Prime Minister, he has never debated anyone, but he is brilliant in his usage of insults, diatribe and vitriolic garbage. How can bright minds cast a ballot for anyone representing this man’s party??
KEEP SHINING!!