Annandale Secondary School and Queen’s College (QC) defeated their opponents in the semi-final matches of the GBTI Inter-Secondary School Impromptu Speech competition for fourth formers.
Annandale and St Joseph High had a very close match with the victors scoring 656 points.
St Joseph scored 636. Annandale selected topics ‘It is not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game’, ‘The benefits of reading’ and ‘should sex education be taught in schools?’ The St Joseph team chose ‘How can we feed the world?’, ‘the benefits of gardening as a hobby’ and ‘All that glitters is not gold!’
In the second match QC scored 86 points more than rivals School of the Nations. QC scored 666 points with the topics ‘The value of physical exercise’, ‘What would you do to promote tourism in Guyana?’ and ‘Laughter is the best medicine.’ Nations’ topics were ‘To me success in life means’, ‘The value of friendship’ and ‘The benefits of rising early.’
Sheik Sadiq, Bonita Hunter and Bernadette Persaud judged the contests.
