The Cooperative Division this week celebrated Junior Cooperative Week under theme ‘Youth and Cooperative Dominica’s Future’.
According to Commissioner of Cooperative Mariet Canoville “it is important that we have continuity in the Cooperative movement, thus the reason for organizing the week of activities. Young people must get involved. They must understand that the Cooperative model of business has transformed the lives of many people in Dominica”.
As part of the week’s celebration the department organized National Youth Empowerment Seminar on Thursday where representatives from various secondary schools gathered for an award ceremony and seminar.
Addressing the function were Commissioner of Cooperative Mariet Canoville; Dominica Cooperative Societies League’s training officer Ketura Nation; President of the National Youth Council Delroy Williams; Hon. Norris Prevost, representative for the Roseau Central Constituency; representing the Minster for Culture Sports and Youth Affairs was Mr. Bontiff; acting chief youth development officers and Hon. Gloria Shilingford, minister for Social Services, Community Development and Gender Affairs delivered the feature address.
Schools represented at the Seminar were ierre Charles Secondary, Dominica Grammar School, Dominica Community High School; Northeast Comprehensive Secondary School; Issaih Thomas Secondary School; Portsmouth Secondary School; St. Martin Secondary School; Convent High School; Castle Bruce Secondary School and Wesley High School.
Hilder Laville of the Northeast Comprehensive School was the winner of the Cooperative Quiz Competition held on Wednesday, January 26.
Awards were given to the longest serving teachers of the Saving Unions in the Southern District, including Roseau. These awards went to Caryl Fontaine of the Goodwill Primary School for over 20 years of service and Isabella Prentice of the Convent High School.
An award was given to the school with the most savers and highest amount of saving; this award went to the St. Martin Primary started which started in 2008; and St. Mary’s Primary which started in 2006. Students with the highest savings account in the south were also awarded. They are Kermyi Magloire of the St. Martin Primary School; Jarvis Humphreys of St. Mary’s Primary; Ibar Nadine Baron of Bagetelle Primary School and Kishmael Allan of Dominica Community High School.
During working session, presentations came from McDowell Paul, manager of the National Cooperative Credit Union Roseau; Garner Eloi, manager of Dominica Essential Oils and Spices Cooperative in Dominica, Commissioner of Cooperatives Mariet Canoville; Rennick Toussaint, education and training officer; and Senior Cooperative Albert Cuffy.
On Friday, January 28, students of various secondary schools toured the Dominica Essential Oils and Spices plant in Petite Savannah.
The Junior Cooperative Week start in 2009 and is now an annual event.
nice to see some of dominica’s teachers getting something…..it cool…..
well if u watch chs froom a different point of view u will c da same difference… by the way our tie are just beneath the seperation of the shirt so watch cosely b4 u mk such statements
There is hope for the future of Dominica when so many young people are involved in the cooperative movement.The organizers of the event are taking a step in the right direction to instill the cooperative philosophy in the hearts and minds of our young people. The cooperative model is excellent for small agro-economies like ours. Teaching kids to save from an early age is a brilliant idea.
On another note, I would like to see more male participants. Our young men must not be left behind. They need to understand the power of cooperative partnership and responsible saving plans.
Since I have the entire comments space on this story to myself, let me say that we either need to discard the wearing of ties as part of the school uniform or the girls in the pictures need to do justice to the uniform. They need to tighten up of the tie to avoid the appearance of sloppiness. I know that this is the Caribbean. We can cut them some slack on the last shirt button, but such loose ties!! Compare the DGS girls to the CHS girl sitting in the center of the last photo. Which model do you prefer?
Congrats to Hilder Laville and Miss Prosper its always nice to show the rest of Dominica how strong we are on the Northeast..we are so proud.
You can say that again.