{"id":252960,"date":"2020-07-22T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=252960"},"modified":"2020-07-22T22:02:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T02:02:50","slug":"dowasco-satisfied-with-support-for-water-week-competitions-despite-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/dowasco-satisfied-with-support-for-water-week-competitions-despite-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"DOWASCO satisfied with support for Water Week competitions despite COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DOWASCO officials hand out a prize to a competitor in the Water Week competition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The manager of the Dominica Water Sewerage Company (DOWASCO), Bernard Etinoffe, has said that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, he is happy with the schools which participated in the annual Water Week competitions which were held under the theme Water and Climate Change.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough in 2020 we all recognised that things were different, we are happy for the success that we\u2019ve had to date,” Etinoffe stated. “We\u2019ve had a number of activities planned which we could not execute because of the required protocols, social distancing, lack of congregating, schools were closed and things like that but we are happy that we were still able to have a number of schools participating in our water week activity, in particular, our posters competition and our essay competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Water Week activities scheduled for March had to be significantly scaled down to just the school poster and essay competitions.<\/p>\n

However, according to Etinoffe, despite this disappointment, after much planning, the pandemic did bring to the forefront the importance of water, which through hand washing, has been deemed an essential step in combating the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

There was only one entry in the Secondary School Poster Competition from the St. Mary\u2019s Academy submitted by Hillary Lawrence. Ciara Rose Baron from the Bagatelle Primary School emerged first and Jedidiah Fontaine from the Roseau Primary School placed second in the Primary School poster competition. The other participating schools and students were: Roseau Primary \u2013Tyesha Lockhart, Castle Bruce Primary \u2013 Celina Winston, Shanea Stanislas and Kerdy Scotland, Christian Union Primary \u2013 Asia JnoBaptise& Josiah Alexander, St. John\u2019s Primary \u2013 Elle Victoria Rodney, Trafalgar Primary \u2013 Adrian Cuffy and Jahiin Florent,Woodfordhill Primary \u2013 Carelle Sebastien and Juniesha Stewart, Wotten Waven Primary \u2013Marlisha St. Jean.<\/p>\n

In the Primary School Essay Competition, Walson Jr Pacquette from the Grandbay Primary placed first and Faith Sylvester from the St. John\u2019s Primary took second place. The other participating schools and students were: Trafalgar Primary \u2013 Jokwan Moses, Berean Academy – Aryana Dennis, Castle Bruce Primary \u2013 Celina Winston, Tete Morne Primary \u2013 Da\u2019Quan Thomas Woodfordhill Primary \u2013 Juniesha Stewart andShellysa Dejean, Massacre Canefield Primary \u2013 Mehndi Charles, Patricia Baroness Scotland Primary \u2013 Nickeze Ettinoffe, Mia Diderand Tyler Christmas, Bagatelle Primary \u2013 Mikayla Anselm, Christian Union Primary \u2013 Kadisha Debeauville<\/p>\n

Water Week was sponsored\u00a0 by the National Bank of Dominica, ACME Garage, Fine Foods Inc, DIGICEL, National Cooperative Credit Union, H.H. V Whitchurch and Company, Sign Man, Carlton Phillip Motor Pool, FICHTNER Water and Transport, ISRATECH Jamaica Ltd\u00a0 and Water Works Caribbean.<\/p>\n