St. Margaret’s winner of inaugural competition

A group of Class three students from the St. Margaret’s Primary School are celebrating their win of the inaugural Errol Barrow Cooking Challenge Competition.

After the winners were announced, the three boys of the primary school, Ramarco Phillips, Renaco Haynes and Thierry Bailey, were seen with cheeky grins as they collected their prizes. Their teacher, Glendene Hayde, expressed how exciting it was for her to watch the boys compete and work efficiently together as a team to pull off this win.

Meanwhile, class four students of Mount Tabor Primary School placed second and class three students of St. John’s Primary School placed third. Each competitor was given an apron at the beginning of the competition. General Secretary of the Democratic Labour Party, George Pilgrim, noted that the prizes, which were cash prizes, would be donated to each school.

Pilgrim went on to reveal that after two years of deliberation, they were finally able to host the inaugural “Cook Off Competition”, which took place at the Lodge Secondary School yesterday morning, as a part of the 30th anniversary of the passing of the late Errol Walton Barrow and added that it was his hope that this competition developed into an annual occurrence. The competitors had to create a meal following a recipe of Caribbean stew chicken with a Bajan side dish, which came from the book “Privilege Cooking in the Caribbean” that was co-authored by the late Prime Minister.

“The idea basically was to ensure that the children in St. John had the opportunity to connect with our former Prime Minister and leader of the DLP,” he said. After all, Pilgrim noted, as a result of a policy put in place by the late Errol Walton Barrow, children can now go to school and receive a relatively free education. He added that as primary school children, he did not think it was too early for them to be thinking about what they want to do with their future and advised them not to waste their education.