Millennium competition launched

The Ghana Millennium Commission, in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service, is organising a nation-wide essay competition among all students in senior secondary schools.

This is in connection with the celebration of the end of the second millennium and the start of the third.

A release issued in Accra on Thursday said to ensure fairness in the competition, all heads of schools will certify entries as true and the original work of a contestant with fully endorsed passport sized photographs attached.

Prizes to be awarded will range from five million cedis, and will all be converted into treasury bills for the winning contestants as a form of future investment for them.

It said care had been taken to choose four contemporary topics for the competition. They are:

(1) Development gains made by Ghana in the last ten years can only be sustained in a peaceful environment. What challenges does this pose to the youth in the next millennium?;

(2) What role do you envisage for the Ghanaian woman in terms of peace, development and their sustainability in the next millennium?;

(3) How prepared is Ghana towards meeting the challenges of the next millennium?; and

(4) Good governance coupled with economic growth can sustain peace and development in the next millennium. Discuss.

Closing date for the submission of entries is Friday, December 31, 1999.