School head says coaches must put in more time if standards are to improve
8 July 2021
By Neto Baptiste
One secondary school principal and an advocate for school sports,
Foster Roberts, believes that coaches attached to the schools programme should work with athletes within their various disciplines all year round and not just when their particular discipline is in season.
Roberts, the principal at the Ottos Comprehensive School (OCS), said that many of the plants are either equipped with the necessary infrastructure or are close enough to facilities that could be used all year round.
“The coaches that we have, we can’t just coach when it is football season and produce footballers, you have to be coaching them all year round. So they need to work with the principals in the schools and let us set up the schedule for you to come during the school week, after school to work with the children for an hour or an hour and a half,” he said.
OCS principal says alumni has played a major role in school’s success
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By Neto Baptiste
The alumni of the Ottos Comprehensive School (OCS) has and continues to play a major role in both the educational and sporting success of the institution.
This is according to OCS Principal
Foster Roberts who, while speaking on the Good Morning Jojo Sports Show, hailed the school’s past students for the role they continue to play in the growth and development of current students and those who would have gone before.
“At Ottos Comprehensive School, we would have reached out quite a bit of our alumni over the last couple of years and the response has been very positive. We have alumni that, based on the positions they hold in the institutions they work, that they would have sponsored our track uniforms. We have a new set of track uniforms that we haven’t used as yet that we got from a sponsor and that person is an alumni of the Ottos Comprehensive School,” he said.
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Local artist makes his mark with street urban style
By Carlena Knight
When we think of art, we think of beautiful murals, paintings that hang on walls or pieces in an art gallery, but one local artist is on a mission to bring a new concept to Antigua and Barbuda.
Ron Howell, 41, more popularly known as GuavadeArtist, is bringing his urban, contemporary street style to the masses in an unconventional way.
The self-taught artist, who is versatile in different avenues of art such as illustration, painting, sculpting, 3D modelling, art toy creation, and digital drawing/animation, has turned his skill into a business that not only offers paintings, but also customised clothes and toys.