–cops top regional CXC award

KAYSHAV Tewari of Queen’s College, who scored 19 Grade Ones at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination, has won himself the region’s Most Outstanding Candidate Overall Award.
He also won the award for the Most Outstanding Candidate in the Sciences, having achieved Grade Ones in Additional Mathematics, Agricultural Science (Double Award), Biology, Human and Social Biology, Integrated Science, Physics and Chemistry.

The other subjects in which he did equally well were: Economics, English A and B, EDPM, Geography, Information Technology, Mathematics, Principles of Accounts, Principles of Business, Religious Education, Social Studies and Spanish.

During QC’s annual Speech Day and Prizing Giving Ceremony for the Class of 2016, Tewari received a number of awards from the school, among them the Queen’s College Geography Prize, the Parent Teachers’ Association Prize, and the Wilfred Success Trophy for being the Most Outstanding and Best Graduating Student for 2016.

He also won himself the Ministry of Education’s Prize for being the year’s best CSEC student.

According to his cousin, Aditya Persaud:
“This young man, who hails from Lusignan, has surely made Guyana proud; he also dominated the stage yesterday at Queen’s College with the number of awards at the ceremony.

“Today, he has left for Barbados to receive his Caribbean Awards from CXC. Surely, he has made his village of Lusignan, and more so, his parents and family, proud.”