CAVE SHEPHERD HEEDS MINISTER'S CALL FOR COMPUTERS

THREE SECONDARY schools in Barbados each received a complete computer system from Cave Shepherd last Friday morning.

Combermere, Queen's College and Foundation are the winners in the company's annual Back-To-School competition. This year's contest featured a new format, based on the number of purchases made by parents of students who wrote their school's name on the back of their receipts and dropped them into the boxes provided.

"Earlier this year the Minister of Education, Reginald Farley, asked for assistance with outfitting schools in Barbados with computers. We saw this as an opportunity to play our part and make a contribution," said Kay Wiseman, local advertising and media manager, Duty Free Caribbean. "As such we decided to link it with our annual Back-To-School Competition in the form of the prize for the school's section of the contest being a gift of computers."

Foundation's IT tutor Roger Moore received the school's computer from Cecille Blackett of the Back-To-School Department, Gerald Phillips, IT coordinator at Combermere, was presented that school's computer by Ricardo Crookendale, Manager of the luggage department and IT coordinator of Queen's College, Cynthia Howard received her school's computer from Kay Wiseman.

The computer system came complete with CPU, mouse and pad, keyboard, hard drive, monitor and surge protector, and were provided in partnership with Cave Shepherd's suppliers, A and B Trading, Satya Enterprises and Yankee Garments.

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