Dillon: Think positive to change Enterprise

“Think positive if you want to change Enterprise. When I see young people engaged in camps such as these it speaks volume...

change only begins by changing your thoughts because your thoughts determine your actions.

You have made a positive choice to join the camp,” Dillon said at the closing ceremony for Camp Phoenix 2017 at the Enterprise Government Primary School at Homeland Gardens in Chaguanas.

The camp was a joint initiative between the Enterprise Community Council and the Police Service’s Inter Agency Task Force (IATF). The Minister commended the organisers, the children as well as parents/guardians for being part of the two-week camp.

According to organisers, the goal of the camp was to foster closer ties between law enforcement and the community in order to proactively address the spike in crime within the Central Region, specifically Enterprise.

A total of 90 residents between the age of six and 17 received certificates of participation, having completed courses in the field of self-defence, conflict resolution, etiquette and physical fitness, among others. Personnel from the protective services namely Defence Force and Police and Fire Services as well as ECC members supervised at Camp Phoenix.

Yesterday, motivational speaker Don La Foucade told the youths that the area where they are from does not make them. Instead it is they who make the area. He added that in life, it matters not where a person comes from rather it is where he/she is going. He told the children that having good manners give them an advantage in life as “good manners will open any door”. La Foucade further told them that the more one gives, the more he/she receives.

The camp was first of two in the community. The second, also geared at providing a positive environment and activities for youths, begins on August 7 and ends August 18. The camp is mainly funded via the corporate support of Phoenix Park Gas Processors Ltd, TSTT, Republic Bank and the US Embassy alongside small business within Enterprise.