Governor General makes presentation to 'Crabs for Computers' students

Sun, Sep 26th 2010, 11:00 PM

GOVERNOR General Sir Arthur Foulkes flew to Andros on Wednesday to present 20 students with their hard earned computers and complement Mangrove Cay's administrator for teaching them an important lesson -- "there is no free lunch in life."

Mangrove Cay administrator Gilbert Kemp conceived the novel idea of having students collect land crabs for sale to raise money to purchase much needed lap top computers for their studies. At Thursday's ceremony 20 computers were presented. Five more are awaiting promised funds before they can be purchased.

Mr Kemp, who flew the children to Nassau earlier this year to sell their bags of crabs -- the Governor General being one of the purchasers ...

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