Blue Planet competition winners receive prizes

Jimmy Attard, manager, marketing and promotion at Air Malta, last Tuesday presented two Air Malta tickets to London to Joyce Chetcuti of St Paul's Bay, who won the IMAX Vodafone Blue Planet competition, carried in The Sunday Times last month, in collaboration with the Eden Leisure Group, to raise environmental awareness.

Readers, who were required to view the highly educational film, were asked to state what, in their opinion, is Malta's most pressing environmental problem, and what would they do to improve it. Ms Chetcuti's reply was carried in The Sunday Times on June 30.

Ms Chetcuti, a former teacher, who was accompanied by her husband Paul, also received a hotel stay on bed and breakfast basis and free entrance tickets to the Science and Natural History Museums, courtesy of Eden Leisure Group.

The Eden Leisure Group also decided to award two runners-up in the competition, whose replies were deemed to be very good. Kate de Cesare, the group's marketing manager, who also manages the IMAX theatre, presented Eden entertainment packs consisting of bowling, IMAX and ice-skating tickets, to Alan Pulis of Marsascala and to Vincent E. Farrugia of Naxxar.

Mr Pulis is a teacher of Environmental Science at Giovanni F. Curmi Higher Secondary School in Naxxar, while Vincent is an 11-year-old student at San Andrea School, l-Imselliet. His mother, Maria Pia Farrugia, received the prize on his behalf.

The presentation ceremony was held in the foyer of the IMAX Vodafone theatre in St George's Bay and was also attended by the editor of The Sunday Times, Laurence Grech, who congratulated all three winners.