Philipsburg: ---It was all joy for the debate team of the St. Dominic High School last night at the Philipsburg Cultural Center after it was announced that they are indeed the winner of this year's interscholastic debate. St. Dominic High School scored 328 points debating on the topic Constitutional Affairs. The school will receive $1, 500 from the water and utility company GEBE, and HIFI system. The debaters will get a laptop each sponsored by the Windward Islands bank and RBTT Bank, while the team would get a cellular phone from UTS. Chalesa Joseph one of the debaters from the winning school won the best speaker prize which is round trip ticket to any of American Airlines destinations.
Taking second place was the St. Maarten Academy with the topic "Environment" At one point the crowd as well as the Academy thought they captured the first spot but the judges have it that they were 9 points behind with 329 points. Their school would receive $1000 compliments of Nova Scotia Bank, cellular phones, a round trip ticket compliment of Winair.
Third place went to the Learning Unlimited with the topic Education. The Milton Peters School and Caribbean International School were each given participation awards. Their schools would also receive Naf 1000 while the participants would receive a pencil bag and cellular phones.
A laptop computer was given to Kyle Wathey as he was randomly chosen to receive the researcher's prize.