Kordell Monique Clarke, a Bank of Nova Scotia Scholarship recipient for year 2003, successfully used the funds to facilitate her tuition for the five years of her secondary education.

 

A remarkable academic achiever, she has completed twelve CXC O’Level subjects, gaining seven distinctions and five credits.

 

Kordell has always challenged herself to achieve the highest level in all her endeavours. Her determination, coupled with the continued support of her mother and close friends, assisted her to complete her studies at the secondary level. She now aspires to study Actuarial Science as she believes this will not only make a difference in her life, but encourage other young persons to believe in their potential and take on challenges.

 

She has been awarded for outstanding performance at the CSEC level and received an Honours Diploma from the Convent of Mercy Academy for her academic excellence.

 

Voluntarism has been an important part of her daily life.  She is an active Inter-School Christian Fellowship member and served in the Key and Tourism Action clubs. She has a passion for Mathematics, dance and singing, and has participated in homework groups where she assists other students to complete assignments and attain success in examinations. Through her membership at the Ebenezer Methodist Church, she has been able to encourage her peers to achieve academic success and spiritual growth.

 

Kordell Monique Clarke it is with pride that the members of the Governor-General’s Achievement Award Committee of St Andrew have selected you as a worthy recipient of the Governor-General’s Youth Award of Excellence for the parish of St. Andrew, in the year 2009.

Winston George Wright was born in Lambs River, Westmoreland, and is the owner and Managing Director of Jamrock-Caribe Realty Limited. A graduate of Mico Teachers’ College, now the Mico University College, his professional career began as a teacher at Papine Junior Secondary, now Papine High, and continued as a lecturer at the University of Technology, formerly the College of Arts, Science and Technology.

 

A multifaceted individual, Mr. Wright served as a News Editor at the Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation, Public Relations Officer at the United Nations Development Programme, and a Life Underwriter at Life of Jamaica. He distinguished himself in the latter position by becoming a member of the Million Dollar Round Table.

 

At the community level, the name Winston Wright is synonymous with voluntarism. He has made significant contributions to the parish of St Andrew through his voluntary service in the Jamaica 4H Clubs, as Chairman of the Board and as President of the Caribbean 4H Council in Barbados. He also served for 25 years in the Boys’ Scout Movement of Jamaica, holding several positions of responsibility including that of Assistant Commissioner.

 

During his years at The University of the West Indies, Mona, he served as the Chairman of the August Town, St Andrew Improvement Committee and established the August Town Basic School. He founded and became the first Managing Editor of the ‘Scope’ student newspaper, and was appointed Chairman of the Guild Press, publishers of the ‘Pelican Annual’.

 

Winston George Wright your colleagues and the members of the Governor-General’s Achievement Award Committee of St. Andrew have selected you as a worthy recipient of the Governor-General’s Achievement Award for the parish of St. Andrew for 2009.

Dean Lincoln Rhoden, an outstanding Scout Leader, since 1983, has served as Assistant District Scout Commissioner for St. Andrew since 1994, and has charted a life of community service that has empowered many young people. His volunteerism has helped to transfer skills and changed the social environment in marginalized communities, such as Hermitage in rural St. Andrew.

 

A self-employed Cabinet Maker, Mr. Rhoden’s artistic work is imbedded in the French windows, doors and items of furniture at Vale Royal, the official residence of the Prime Minister of Jamaica; and many other places, such as the Scout Headquarters of Jamaica, Kingston Parish Church, and the Half Moon Hotel.

 

He was instrumental in designing a Five-Year Development Plan for the Hermitage Education Centre to revitalise the community where he resides. The main objective of the Centre, which has been in operation since 2001, is to empower young people and provide them with life-enabling skills. The project has received classrooms, built by Food for the Poor; support from students at the University of Technology for the Homework Centre; The University of the West Indies and the Citizens’ Security and Justice Programme. A Scholarship Programme was recently established for students of Hermitage to attend The University of the West Indies or the University of Technology.

 

Born on February 29, 1961 in the parish of St. Andrew, Dean Rhoden attended the SDA Basic School in August Town, from 1965 to 1967; August Town Primary School from 1977 to 1973; and Papine Secondary School 1973 to 1979. And, from January to April, 2008, he participated in a three-month training programme in the Principles and Practice of Social Work, at The University of the West Indies,

 

Mr. Rhoden has been recognized for his service to scouting and other community activities by the following awards: A Medal of Merit for ten years of outstanding services to the Scout Movement, 1995; The Bar to the Medal of Merit for further outstanding service to the Scout Movement, 2003; Outstanding Community Volunteer Award, from the Hermitage Citizens’ Association, 2005; Volunteerism Award, from the Community Citizens’ Security and Justice Programme, 2006; and an award for Outstanding Support to the Church Road Citizens’ Association, 2008.

 

Mr. Rhoden is a member of the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ); and he assists in training students at Jamaica College in their CXC Woodwork Class.

 

Dean Lincoln Rhoden, it is with confidence that your colleagues and the members of the GGAA Parish Committee, have selected you as a worthy recipient of the Governor-General’s Achievement Award for the parish of St. Andrew in the year 2008.

Phillip Hamilton, a Justice of the Peace and educator, played a significant role in shaping the education landscape in Jamaica for more than four decades, working as a Headmaster of several schools. As an Education Officer at the Ministry of Education and Youth, he has had responsibility for Region 6, which includes the parishes of St. Catherine and Clarendon...

Donald Williams, born in the community of Jointwood, St Elizabeth, lived with his mother, one sister and three brothers. His early years at school were spent at the Elderslie Elementary and Montego Bay Boys’ Schools...

Although he did not complete secondary education at the St. Andrew Technical High School, Earl Spencer acquired the necessary practical training and completed several courses locally and internationally to fulfill his dream of establishment in Jamaica and the Caribbean...

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Winston George Smith won the Governor-General’s Surrey award for St. Andrew.  He was born to a government worker father and house-wife mother in 1949 and attended the Linstead Primary School in St. Catherine.  He earned a scholarship to St. Jago High School, where he was successful in his GCE O’ and A’ levels...

Veronica Carnegie is the founder of the Liguanea Educational Services, Kingston.  The school was set up in 1986 as a facility for remedial students and re-sitters of major examinations.

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Born to small farmers in the district of Palmers Cross, Clarendon, Neville Ivanhoe Wright did not have life easy growing up in a household with twelve individuals. His mother Mavis Andria, a household helper, and father Sydney, a farmer, believed in the importance of education, and although they were not wealthy, they worked very hard to send Neville and his other siblings to school. Neville’s ...

Polly Bowes-Howell was born on June 21, 1943 in Mount Salus, St. Andrew. Her early schooling began at Manning’s Hill Basic School in St. Andrew and Manning’s Hill All Age School. Her father, with the support of his wife, a seamstress, cultivated crops to support his family. This caring union also produced twelve children. As a first child, Polly (as she is warmly known to her friends) seized the ...

Milton Pinnock is one of our outstanding citizens who from a very young age demonstrated the attributes of caring, compassion and love for others. Notwithstanding the dire economic conditions in which he grew up and, the tremendous sacrifices he had to make to assist his other siblings, he utilized every opportunity to climb the academic ladder and today his very impressive Curriculum Vitae is a ...

Fifty-Eight years ago, in the small Dallas community of rural St Andrew, Euphemia Townsend and Roy Burchenson, a soldier, had a son they named Oswald. Roy was killed in World War 2 soon afterwards, leaving the boy without a father, to be raised by his maternal grandparents Aaron and Adeliah Townsend, a tailor and a housewife. The boy’s Aunt Laura, a 97-year-old who still lives in Dallas, and a ...

Like many youngsters of his day, Earl Spencer was discouraged from pursuing his first love, a career in jewelry.  Instead, his grandfather who had a tremendous influence in his upbringing encouraged him to pursue a career in tailoring. His father, a grocer and his mother, a general assistant to a medical doctor provided the finances for young Earl and his six siblings to attend school ...

`We are not human beings on a spiritual journey, but spiritual beings on a human journey. Consequently, we seek to make God's will be done on earth as it is in heaven.` These words epitomise the philosophy of Vivian Crawford. Born in Moore Town, Portland on May 4, 1940 to William and Etty Crawford, Vivian was left without a father at three months old. He became a child of the community, reared ...

Mr. Clinton McGann, an altruist and a lover of people, is the Governor-General's achievement awardee for the parish of St. Andrew. His name is well known, and it commands much respect when it is called within the agricultural sector from which he derives his livelihood and which he has served in various capacities since 1958.

Mr. McGann has served on the boards of the Forest Industries ...

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‘I am not satisfied with simply achieving any one thing. Once I acquire something, I have to move on to something else because I know what it is not to have. But the more I achieve, the more I will have to share with those around me, and that's ...