Ali­cia Llanos

Three of the Caribbean's most out­stand­ing peo­ple have been se­lect­ed as the An­tho­ny N Sab­ga Caribbean Awards for Ex­cel­lence 2010 Lau­re­ates. The lau­re­ates were an­nounced yes­ter­day by the chair­man of the Re­gion­al Em­i­nent Per­sons Se­lec­tion Pan­el (EPP), Michael Man­soor, at the An­tho­ny N Sab­ga Caribbean Awards for Ex­cel­lence 2010 Lau­re­ates An­nounce­ment Cer­e­mo­ny at the ANSA McAL head of­fice, Tatil Build­ing, Mar­aval Road, New­town. The lau­re­ates ho­n­oured in their re­spec­tive cat­e­gories were:

�2 Art and Let­ters – Adri­an Augi­er of St Lu­cia;

�2 Pub­lic and Civic Con­tri­bu­tions – Syd­ney Al­lic­ock, of Guyana; and

�2 Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy – Dr Kath­leen Coard, of Grena­da.

The lau­re­ates will be ho­n­oured at a gala award cer­e­mo­ny on April 17. They will re­ceive the An­tho­ny N Sab­ga Caribbean Awards for Ex­cel­lence Medal and Ci­ta­tion, TT$500,000 to sup­port their work and pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment and the op­por­tu­ni­ty for vis­i­bil­i­ty, en­cour­age­ment and sup­port across the Caribbean and be­yond. Man­soor said the awards, a part of the ANSA Mc AL Foun­da­tion, were launched in 2006. He said the idea was born out of a key strate­gic plan to ho­n­our dis­tin­guished Caribbean cit­i­zens who ex­em­pli­fy Caribbean life and to pro­mote and fos­ter ex­cel­lence in mem­bers of the Caribbean com­mu­ni­ty. Man­soor said the nom­i­nees were se­lect­ed from five par­tic­i­pat­ing Caribbean ter­ri­to­ries, each with their own nom­i­na­tion com­mit­tees. The ter­ri­to­ries from which nom­i­nees were se­lect­ed were T&T, OECS, Guyana, Ja­maica and Bar­ba­dos.

Pro­gramme di­rec­tor Maria Su­perville-Neil­son said four fun­da­men­tal cri­te­ria was used in se­lect­ing the lau­re­ates. These cri­te­ria were:

�2 lau­re­ates must demon­strate a track record of con­sis­tent­ly su­pe­ri­or work;

�2 they must have the ca­pac­i­ty for sig­nif­i­cant fu­ture achieve­ment;

�2 their work must have had, or like­ly to have, a pos­i­tive im­pact on the Caribbean re­gion; and

�2 they must be wor­thy ex­em­plars to the peo­ple of the Re­gion.

Su­perville-Neil­son said: "Fol­low­ing this part of the process, the se­lect­ed nom­i­na­tions were then sent to the EPP, from which the three lau­re­ates were cho­sen based on their ex­cel­lent work and po­ten­tial for greater achieve­ment." The Re­gion­al Pan­el was chaired by Michael Man­soor. Oth­er mem­bers in­clud­ed Sir El­lis Clarke, Jus­tice Christo­pher Black­man, Dr Comp­ton Bourne, Christo­pher Bovell, Judy Y Chang, Rev Hen­ry Charles, Sis­ter Paul D'Or­nel­la, Sir Shri­dath Ram­phal, Ma­jor Gen­er­al (Ret'd) Joseph Singh and Sir K Dwight Ven­ner.{