Lotto Company sponsors debating competition
Stabroek News
September 30, 2002
The Guyana Lottery Company on Thursday presented the Ministry of Education with a fifty-two-page handbook on debating.
Dr Rovin Deodat, well known personality in the debating world, produced the booklet, which presents guidelines for speakers and judges in a debating competition, with the permission of the Lottery Company. The booklet signals the beginning of a new debating series on television called the National Secondary Schools Debating Competition.
The new series will be broadcast on GTV 11 as well as community television stations in rural areas, and sixteen schools have been invited to participate.
According to the organizers, the series, beginning next week, is expected to reach the high standards of debating characterised in the Patrick Dargan series of debates.
The new series is named after Dr Walter Rodney, renowned for his debating skills, and the schools will be competing for a shield under his name. Five hundred copies of the booklet were initially printed and ten copies have been distributed to each of the sixteen schools in the competition.
According to Chief Education Officer (ag) Genevieve Whyte-Nedd the launching of the booklet ties in with the Ministry’s activities for Education Month and it endorses one of its objectives in its five-year plan, to focus on Literacy and Numeracy.
Working along with the Lottery Company will be academics from the University of Guyana. The competition begins next week with Berbice High debating Skeldon High. The first round will be aired in November.