Nobel Laureate Week Committee to host press conference
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Nobel Laureate Week Committee to host press conference |
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Contact: Claudia Monlouis
Thursday 13 January 2011 – The 18th Nobel Laureate Week of Activities will be officially celebrated from the 21st to the 30th of January.
The activities marking the achievements of Saint Lucia 's two Nobel Laureates began in 1993 after Honourable Derek Walcott won the Nobel prize for Literature in 1992. The celebration also embraces the island's first Nobel Laureate Sir Arthur Lewis who won the award for Economics in 1979.
The first activity will be a grand media conference and presentation, at the residence of the Governor General on the Morne on the 28th of January. Other activities planned for the week will be unveiled as well as events to mark the grand observance on January 23rd- Nobel Laureate Day.
Word reaching the Government Information Service is that Nobel Laureate Day will commence with a grand affair at the National Cultural Centre.
Governor General, Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy, is the Chief Organizer on the Nobel Laureate Organizing Committee. |
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