T&T student second in regional climate change story competition

A Trinidad and To­ba­go stu­dent has placed sec­ond in a re­gion­al cli­mate change short sto­ry com­pe­ti­tion, beat­ing more than 170 en­tries from 14 Caribbean coun­tries.

Priya Ramdeo earned sec­ond place in the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Cli­mate Change Cen­tre's (CC­C­CC) 2026 Youth Short Sto­ry Com­pe­ti­tion with her sto­ry, Mas For The Liv­ing Sea, earn­ing a tablet.

The com­pe­ti­tion was won by 22-year-old Sher­di­na An­toine of Do­mini­ca, whose sto­ry, Weath­er­ing Us, was se­lect­ed from 173 sub­mis­sions. She re­ceived a Mac­Book Neo, while Bar­ba­dos' Kait­lyn Grif­fith placed third with The Coast­line of To­mor­row, earn­ing a Kin­dle.