Two of our out­stand­ing col­leagues, Je­hue Gor­don and Chris­t­ian Homer are among the fa­cil­i­ta­tors for this year's Schools' Lead­er­ship sym­po­sium, host­ed by The Guardian's Sports Desk. The four-day event en­ti­tled 'In­spi­ra­tion' which starts to­day at the Cas­ca­dia Ho­tel from 8 am, will be of­fi­cial­ly opened by Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, Anil Roberts, whose Min­istry is the ti­tle spon­sor. To­day's first ses­sion will be fa­cil­i­tat­ed by for­mer West In­dies bats­man and cur­rent T&T cap­tain Daren Gan­ga, who will be speak­ing on the top­ic - How to or­gan­ise your life if you in­tend to be a leader.

I be­lieve this is a great way to start the event since Gan­ga is well known for his ex­cel­lent lead­er­ship skills, al­though the West In­dies Crick­et Board and its se­lec­tors do not seem to recog­nise this. An­oth­er West In­dies Test play­er, this time a woman, Mer­risa Aguil­liera who is the cap­tain of the West In­dies and T&T women's crick­et team will fol­low. Meris­sa is trav­el­ling from Moru­ga to be with us and she - be­ing a coun­try girl - will tell us about the ex­cit­ing road from Moru­ga to Aus­tralia where she led the Caribbean women's team with much dis­tinc­tion.

End­ing day one will be that great mo­ti­va­tion­al speak­er Don La Fou­cade, who al­ways has us eat­ing out of his hands. We re­al­ly do look for­ward to Mr La Fou­cade. Je­hue, the na­tion­al and world 400 me­tres hur­dle record hold­er, who is a stu­dent at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies starts to­mor­row's ses­sion and he will be fol­lowed by Ca­lyp­so Monarch, Karene As­che and for­mer West In­dies fast bowler, An­tho­ny Gray, who is cur­rent­ly a coach at UTT. On Wednes­day we will hear from FI­FA vice pres­i­dent, Jack Warn­er, with Homer fol­low­ing and George Bovell end­ing the ses­sion.

Mr. Valenti­no Singh, Co­or­di­na­tor of the event wants to sur­prise us on Thurs­day so he has left the day blank, ex­cept to say, it's the clos­ing day and our par­ents and teach­ers are in­vit­ed to come along and hear us re­veal the won­der­ful ex­pe­ri­ence we had over the three days, see us col­lect our cer­tifi­cates and prizes and be ex­posed to some en­ter­tain­ment. In­deed, I am look­ing for­ward to four fun filled days.

See you there!

Stephanie Seenath -

Se­nior Press Pass Cor­re­spon­dent

Shi­va Boys' Hin­du Col­lege