TWO students from the Juvenile Holding Centre, exceeding all expectations, achieved Grades One and Two at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination in English A. This is significant as they are the first to sit the examination out of the holding centre.

This was disclosed by Juvenile Corrections Teacher, Robert Bourne. The identity of the students cannot be revealed because of their age. However, Bourne said that the students showed dedication and determination despite their circumstances and having only two hours of class time per day.

“Those two youths along with two others for the 2020 May/June exams will be writing and this time around we will be sending up four juveniles. One of whom will be writing six subjects, another four subjects and the other two will be writing a minimum of two subjects each,” Bourne stated.

He noted that it was the success of the first two that gave the others the courage to take up the challenge to write the examinations next year. The students will be sitting subjects such as English A, English B, Mathematics, Principles of Business, Principles of Accounts, Social Studies and Electronic Document Preparation and Management (EDPM). (DPI)