(AGO) — The Attorney General’s Office says the 24th AG’s Cup Speech Competition will held on Friday, May 4.
After holding the event for the first time on Tinian and Rota over the past two years, the AGO will hold this year’s competition will at the CNMI Supreme Court on Saipan.
The AG’s Cup has been held every year since 1984, with competitors from all the high schools, both public and private, invited to participate in this highly educational and prestigious competition.
The competition provides high school students with the opportunity to research a current legal issue, form positions about the issue, and present arguments for their positions to a panel of judges and the community.
Traditionally held during Law Week, the competition fosters speaking excellence and introduces pre-graduating students to public forum type settings.
The issue presented for this year’s competition is whether the CNMI should renegotiate the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America.
The speech may examine the advantages and detriments of the current alliance between the United States and the CNMI under the Covenant, and compare those advantages and detriments to those of other islands, such as Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Eleven high schools have already confirmed their participation in this year’s competition.
Among them, is the five-time defending high school, Mount Carmel High School. Students from Mount Carmel High School have garnered an unprecedented five straight wins, a feat no other high school has accomplished.
For more information, call Linda Waugh or Bernie Dela Cruz at 664-2341.