according to early reports yesterday.

Both medal-winning performance were turned in by Berkeley Institute students, Latanya Dickinson in the shot put and Raneika Bean in the high jump -- both in the girls' 17-and-under age group.

Dickinson, 13, captured a silver medal with a throw of 10.72 metres while Bean, 14, snatched a bronze with a leap of 1.72 metres. Both were making their debut at the Games.

Dickinson also placed sixth in the discus with a throw of 26.58 metres, not good enough for a medal but still a personal best.

Bean also ran a personal best in the girls' 13-and-under 100 metres with a time of 12.29 seconds in the semi-final. But she finished a distant sixth in the final with a time of 12.36.

Jarita Dill ran an impressive 56.83 seconds in the girls' under-20 400 metres, but she followed this up with a time of 57.06 for sixth place in the final.

Dill also competed in the 800 metres, clocking 2:18.29 for fifth place in the final.

Janine Scott (14) recorded a time of 25.76 in the girls' under-17 200 metres and followed with a time of 59.51 in the semi-final of the 400 metres.

Neither, however, was good enough for a medal.

Patrinia Swan clocked 58.93 in the 400 metre semi-finals but didn't place in the final. She also had a time of 2:26.18 in the 800 metres but failed to medal.

In the boys' under-20 division, Bermuda's Tariq Hewey ran the 100 metres in 11.3 seconds and the 200 metres in 23.3 seconds, but again neither effort was good enough to place him in the finals.

Gabriel Wilkinson recorded a personal best throw of 12.63 metres in the boys' under-17 shot and placed sixth while Kondwani Williams had a personal best time of 53.71 in the under-17 400 metres semi-final.

The Bermuda squad is due to return home at 7.30 p.m. today.