Students honoured
Shining examples of young people helping each other to be the best were commended by Community Minister Wayne Scott at the Young Citizens Awards Ceremony yesterday.
The eleventh annual event, offered by the Department of Child and Family Services, celebrated 42 outstanding students from schools around the Island.
“Bermuda’s future is now,” Mr Scott told the luncheon at The Fairmont Southampton.
“The students we honour today are already stepping up and doing their best to build a better Bermuda, and it is our intention to keep them involved in mapping out their future.”
A National Youth Policy, pledged in the latest Throne Speech as a means of giving the Island’s youth a voice in decisions, will be shaped by the input of students and young adults, the Minister said.
The students were called up to the stage and applauded in turn for their citizenship qualities within their schools and communities.
The event coincided with the United Nations’ Universal Day of the Child.
Jeremiah Andrade, Brandi Benjamin, Sophie Booth, Tatum Brewer, Marie-Sophie Brackstone, Jackie Costello, Jessie Daba, Gabrielle Deshields, Maya Desilva, Diamond Dill, Quincee Dill, Austin Dowling, Abigail Frost, Jaime Furtado, Vanessa Gilbert, Emma Harvey, Landon Holder, Nanami Ingram, Kyesja Jones, Sebastian Lee, Kacey McGowan, Zyon Minors, Evin Mosley, Taylor Mullan, Rajan Patton, Isaiah Pearman, Milai Perott, Julia Pimental, Rakeysha Robinson, Kristy Sanchez, Charis Smith, Jade Smith, Kailyn Stevens, Sebastian Stirling, D’Angele Symonds, Chayse Tanner, Timaris Thomas, Carlita Trott, Cameron White, Taylor White, T’aja Williams, Peter Wilson
