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SCHOOLS POETRY COMPETITION 2003/2004
Secondary & Tertiary School - Category 4: Forms 4-College
   
1st Place Winner - Chavez Hazel, Verchilds High School, St Kitts and Nevis
2nd Place Winner - Vashma Carey, Ottos Comprehensive School, Antigua and Barbuda
3rd Place Winner - Sandrena Martin, Ottos Comprehensive School, Antigua and Barbuda
   

1st Place Winner- Category 4
Chavez Hazel
Verchilds High School, St Kitts and Nevis


Let’s Integrate
Regional Integration is not an end in itself.
It is an instrument
to support a strategy of economic growth and development.
It is the signaling and locking-in of structural reform commitments
and it attracts foreign direct investments.
It deepens trade liberalisation
and enhances regional cooperation.

Regional Integration creates trade,
economic relations with third states,
economic transformation,
full employment and other factors of production.
It accelerates economic convergence
and enhances levels of international competitiveness.

Integration increases productivity
and economic policies.
Each country ought to support each other
and learn to love one another.
For once we have a strong unity
we will have prosperity
and a decrease in enmity.
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2nd Place Winner- Category 4
Vashma Carey
Ottos Comprehensive School, Antigua and Barbuda

Will It Ever Work?
Will it ever work?
Will the Caribbean be able to come together
to promote local industry, culture and history?

Will it ever work?
Will they be able to educate citizens about Caribbean integration
and not divisiveness?

Will it ever work?
Will the teachings of communication with
our Caribbean brothers and sisters
help them to put away their differences
and come together as one united region?

Will it ever work?
Will Caribbean brothers be able to migrate from
one island to another and live in harmony with each other?

Yes , it will!
Yes, it will!
If we join hands together in true democracy
to help develop one common destiny.
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3rd Place Winner- Category 4
Sandrena Martin
Ottos Comprehensive School, Antigua and Barbuda

For Financial Stability and Economic Growth
Financial stability and economic growth will always be elusive,
Unless we form a partnership, one that’s all-inclusive.
St Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda,
everyone hand in hand,
Remember that divided we fall, but united we stand.

We need to develop our resources and our industries,
And learn to better use our land, our sun, our sky our seas.
We need to increase exports and reduce imports,
And refuse to become those foreign investors’ cohorts.
Let’s not put all our eggs into one basket, but diversify,
To prevent, in case of failure, our lands being left high and dry.

We need to invest in our people, the lifeblood of our nations,
And educate them all without favor or limitations.
We need strong and capable leaders, proud, passionate and dignified
To lead us to economic growth, the goal for which we strive.
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