All dressed in white: Youths of the Starters nursery school after their physical display dubbed "Fitness and more in 2004".
The Cliff Anderson Sports Hall came alive yesterday when schools across Georgetown depicted unity, beauty and much more in dances, masquerades and physical displays as the Georgetown leg of the Regional competition entered day two.

In front of a packed crowd children from the nursery, 5-7, and 8-10 categories displayed colourful costumes and creativeness.

Some of the schools that participated were the West Ruimveldt Primary, St. Andrews Primary, Precious Jewels Nursery and Alexander Village Nursery.

The students performed excellently in the dances which were categorized as Interpretive, Religious Beliefs, Fantasy, Social Commentary and Legends and Traditions.

For the 5-7 group dances, first place winners in the various categories were St. Agnes doing "Mash Vibes" and Green Acres performing "Elephant Twist".

Second place winners in the same categories were North Georgetown Primary's "Soca Inflation" and St. Sidwell's "The Frog Prince's Ball".

South Ruimveldt performing "Caribbean Way" and Thomas More Primary doing "Ouch dot. Com were third place winners in the category.

The Masquerade competition saw four nursery schools participating with Liana Nursery's "Masquerade Dance", Kingston Nursery's "Striving for more in 2004" and South Road Nursery's "Flouncing Time" placing third, second and first respectively.

In the 5-7 Individual category of the Physical Display, ABC Academy performing "Body Twist", Thomas More doing "This is my childhood and St. Angela's Primary doing "The Energetic one", were third, second and first place winners respectively.

Winners in the group category were St. Angela's St. Margaret's and Green Acres Primary.

Tomorrow, the physical display competition will continue and the Costume competition will be held.

The second part of the dance and masquerade competitions wit children in the 11-13 and 14-17 categories participating will be staged at the National Park on Friday, bringing the curtain down on the Georgetown leg of the competition.

On Tuesday, the youths through their dramatic poetry and calypsos highlighted the main events of 2003 including the numerous beauty pageants, and the unrelenting crime wave at the National Cultural Centre where the action began.

The youths participating in the Nursery, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, and 14-17 age groups were drawn from schools such as St. Joseph's High, Queen's College, Sacred Heart Primary, Stella Maris Primary, Precious Jewels Nursery and St. George's Nursery.

The event was well organized and saw the students completing their pieces in the shortest of time.

Unlike last year, there were no long delays after the completion of one segment before the next began.

In the Calypso competition, some of Tuesday's winners were St. George's Nursery, Kingston Nursery and St. Agnes Nursery.

In the 5-7 category, Visha Ramsaywack, the only entry secured first place with "We Need Education".

Dramatic poetry winners were Happy Acres Nursery doing, Bel Air Nursery and J.E Burnham and Tonga Bowman of Stella Maris.