A group of national age group chess champions will represent Jamaica in a friendly invitational chess tournament in Budapest, Hungary, from October 31 to November 3. They are seven-year-old Aaron McKoy, 12-year-old Arielle McKoy, and 13-year-old Darren McKennis. “The young champions are looking forward to the opportunity to represent their country and to learn from…
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Linstead student progresses with 11 CXC subjects months after tragedy
A few months after she was seen weeping in Commodore Cemetery while her murdered mother Verona ‘Trudy’ Slack was being laid to rest, Ashanti Blackwood is celebrating an academic feat, which she has dedicated to her mother. The native of Linstead in St Catherine was successful this year in 8 CSEC subjects, administered by the…