DEH competition winners with their entries: The six DEH Anti-littering Competition
winners and their teachers display their wining entries (from left) New Horizon High
student Geron Mignott; his art teacher Jodi Williams; PACE High School students
Kashekia Daley, Kaitlyn Thompson, Chadia Nichol and Shemika Gooding; their Art
teacher Judith Walker; John Gray High student Cordel Andrade and his art teacher
Mark Frasier.

Six students recently won awards for their submissions to the Department of Environmental Health’s (DEH) anti-littering poster and slogan competition.

The competition, which was held during October and November, was open to all school-age children in the Cayman Islands. The competition’s purpose was to raise awareness about the problem of littering, and to use winning entries to create a poster for schools’ display, reminding students to not litter.

DEH officials received more than 145 entries, said DEH’s Public Education and Promotions Officer Tania Johnson.

“Students and teachers were very enthusiastic about participating in the competition,” she said. “Congratulations to the winners, who clearly put a lot of care and thought into their entries; we were impressed by how creative some of the entries were.”

First-prize winners will receive digital cameras, while second runners-up will receive $125 gift certificates from Hobbies & Books. The competition was sponsored by Cayman Net News, Radio Cayman, Breezes, Caribbean Publishing and dms Broadcasting.

Poster competition winners were Geron Mignott, 11, New Horizon High School, first place; and Shemika Gooding, 12, PACE High School, second place.

Winners in the slogan competition were PACE High School’s Chadia Nichol, 14; Kashekia Daley and Kaitlyn Thompson, both 13 (this was a group entry); and Cordel Andrade, 13, John Gray High School.