Thursday at the Primature, in the presence of Pierre Josué Agénor Cadet, the Minister of National Education, the Prime Minister's Office Director, Jimmy Albert and the Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister in charge of Citizenship and Patriotism, Guy André Junior François, the 40 winners (4 per department) of the Contest of text around the theme "Dessalines, the imperative necessity of the inclusion of all Haitians" were rewarded during a ceremony.

Recall that this contest launches last October 4th https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25742-haiti-212nd-dessalines-launch-of-the-activities-and-of-a-text-contest.html offered the participant the choice in two subjects :

1- "In which the Dessalines' thinking about the imperative need to include Haitians is still relevant ?"

2-: "The development requirements of Haiti in 2018 can they find an anchor in the thought of and the actions of Toussaint Louverture, Alexandre Pétion, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Henri Christophe ?"

According to the list published by the Directorate of Secondary Education of the department that ran this contest, the winners are great in first place Jean-Louis Christina, fourth year student of the renovated secondary school at the Cent-Cinquantenaire high school (West), with 90 points out of 100, followed ex aequo by Pierre Phébée, a student of the college Vie de France (South-East) and Christelle Gérome of Catherine Flon College (West) with 86 out of 100.

Speaking to thank the organizers, Jean-Louis Christina surprised the audience with the quality of her text and vision of an inclusive country where all Haitians would have their place like the Dessalinian ideal. For Christina, inclusion is the essential condition of the Haitian dream of development. Thanking the President, the Prime Minister and the Ministry for this activity which allowed the students to highlight their ideas, Christina and Christelle invited all the leaders to take inspiration from Dessalines' spirit of inclusion.

Guyserge Pompilus, one of the prime advisers to the Prime Minister, announced that other competitions in the same vein are coming soon, including November 18, the day of commemoration of the Battle of Vertières.

At the end of the ceremony, the prizes were awarded following the ranking in including laptops, books and digital tablets.

HL/ HaitiLibre