HWM announces competition winners

Local artist and educator Nasaria Suckoo Chollette won first place in both the photography and poetry competitions run by the Women’s Resource Centre for Honouring Women’s Month.

The competitions pulled in 35 entries. All submissions addressed the theme of this year’s HWM observance ‘Celebrating Our Diversity’.

The six winners received their prizes at the International Women’s Day celebration hosted by the Women’s Resource Centre at Casanova’s by the Sea Thursday.

Mrs. Suckoo Chollette, who heads John Gray High School’s Drama Department, said she would use her $300 winnings to buy books for Upkeepers of Rastafari, a local faith-based group.

WINNERS

Photography – Nasaria Suckoo Chollette (1^st) ‘Bellies 1’ $150, Courtney Phipps (2^nd) ‘Celebration’ $100 and Fevi Yu (3^rd) ‘Masquerade’ $50.

Poetry – Nasaria Suckoo Chollette (1^st) – ‘Curry Goat an Mango Jam’ $150, Alta Solomon (2^nd) ‘The Warmth of Diversities’ $50 and Shawna Dacres (3^rd) ‘Women’ $50.

All the prizes were sponsored by Orchid Development.