Manning's Global Community
published: Friday |
Natoya Janeen Peart, upper sixth form student at the Manning's School, catches up on her reading at her school in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland. - PHOTO BY
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland:
SHE WAS not the most popular student at Manning's School, even after achieving eight distinctions from the eight subjects taken at the CXC level. But when news of her acceptance to the prestigious
The 18-year-old sixth form student received a full scholar-ship valued at US$48,000 (J$3,168,000) for the first year with renewable capabilities for the ensuing ones.
"I was shocked at first because I didn't know I would get through at Yale," Natoya told The Gleaner. "When I got the call I was wondering if it was some kind of a joke, but afterwards I started to believe and even now I am still in shock but very elated."
The scholarship, which she intends to take up in September, is a financial aid award which is awarded based on the applicant's financial need as well as academic achievement.
With Grade one passes in Mathematics, English language, English literature, Spanish, social studies, chemistry, biology and physics, Natoya intends to pursue studies in oncology. The scholarship will include full payment for tuition, boarding, books, travelling and vacation allowance.
"I decided to be a cancer specialist because my mother is a survivor, a cousin of mine survived a brain tumour and another cousin has skin cancer," she said.
Her mother, Nalda Peart, senior Public Health Inspector at the St. James Health Depart-ment, still holds a report from the
Manning's principal, Gloria Wagstaff, who describes Natoya as respectful, helpful, alert, said it was not a surprise to the school when news broke of her achievement.
Natoya's father, James Peart, a minister of religion at the
Glenroy Sinclair and Nagra Plunkett, Assignment Coordinators Murder-suicide took on a bizarre face in the tourist capital of Their bodies were discovered shortly after Dead are Carol Waldron, who was employed to the Savanna-la-Mar Hospital, Kadijah Waldron, a fourth-form student of the Mannings School and three-month-old Ashley Waldron. Seven-page suicide note According to the police, Mrs. Waldron left behind a seven-page suicide note in which she detailed marital problems. The police also said several syringes were found inside the hotel room. A security guard employed to the hotel heard strange sounds coming from inside the room. He informed another worker, who then entered the room by breaking the glass door on the balcony. The police were summoned and on their arrival, the bodies of three females were discovered. Wrists slashed Mrs. Waldron, according to the police, had attempted to commit suicide by hanging but the rope broke. Her body was found in the bath tub with the wrists slashed. She had also supposedly injected herself with the dangerous substance. "In the suicide note, she claimed her husband told her that he was going to He further said that Mrs. Waldron in the note repeatedly said she "could not take it anymore" and begged her relatives, especially her mother, to forgive her. She singled out a brother and sister whom she asked to take care of their children. "There were so many other things in the letter explaining what they (the couple) have been through in the 18 years of the marriage," said one of the senior detectives who read the letter. Taking it hard Mrs. Waldron's family is taking it hard. "Something really go so? Carol really kill herself and the two pickney dem?" asked a tearful Lena Clayton, Nurse Waldron's mother. Mrs. Clayton was in a crowd of grieving relatives and friends who gathered at the family home in Grange Hill, Westmoreland, as news of the tragedy spread. The 41-year-old nurse had been married to Michael Waldron, an ex-soldier and businessman of Grange Hill in Westmoreland, for the last 18 years. He was briefly questioned by the police yesterday, during a telephone conversation. Since then, and up to press time yesterday, the police said they were unable to make further contact with him. The first of four children for her parents, Nurse Waldron was last seen about Her father, James Clayton, said his daughter picked up her eldest daughter at school and subsequently called to say she was spending the night in "She was one of the best persons in the world, very quiet, easy-going and dedicated to her job. Up to yesterday (Friday), Carol was the best daughter in the world. But today, I don't know, I wouldn't have expected her to do something like this," Mr. Clayton stated. "My problem is this one (pointing to a photograph of baby Kadijah). She is innocent. Why she didn't leave 'Dijah' give us?" Commenting on the situation yesterday, psychiatrist, Dr. Wendel Abel, said depression can trigger a sense of nihilism in people: "If somebody is depressed and they are overcome by a sense of hopelessness and helplessness and powerlessness, so when you get to that point (of severe depression) you also begin to get very negative thoughts. You don't want to live any more."
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BIZARRE! nurse kills self, two daughters; murder-suicide shocks nation
published: Sunday | 
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LEFT: Nurse Carol Waldron in earlier years at the
CENTRE: Kadijah Waldron
LEFT: Carol Waldron and husband Michael, with baby Ashley.
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