by GGYA | Dec 16, 2020 | News
For hours 14-year-old Ethan Pinder stood, diligently arranging grocery items in a seemingly unending line of brown paper bags. He wasn’t tipped a dollar as a bag boy would in a supermarket. Instead he received a greater reward – thinking of the world outside of...
by GGYA | Nov 28, 2020 | News
Finding extracurricular activities for young people isn’t as easy as it once was due to restrictions on movement and social-distancing mandates brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, one youth programme says a growing number of 14 to 24-year-olds are opting to...
by GGYA | Sep 30, 2020 | COVID19
2020 has been a year of unprecedented change. Young people the world over have been taking on the challenges of COVID-19 head on and Award participants have been amongst those leading the way. From translating government health advice into other languages for their...
by GGYA | Sep 30, 2020 | News
It’s a programme that enriches young people’s lives on multiple levels. At least that’s the way Carla Brown-Roker, Grand Bahama’s Ministry of Youth Officer views the Governor General’s Youth Award (GGYA) and she said as much during a presentation which saw 58...
by GGYA | Sep 30, 2020 | News
When Category 5 Hurricane Dorian roared ashore at East End Grand Bahama sweeping 16 feet of water into eleventh grader Arlington Watson’s High Rock home, it was his Governor General’s Youth Award training which kept him from panicking while huddled barefoot and damp...
