{"id":2195,"date":"2017-12-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/renaldo-facey-wolmers-boys-csec-2016\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T12:00:00","slug":"renaldo-facey-wolmers-boys-csec-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-news\/renaldo-facey-wolmers-boys-csec-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaldo Facey, Wolmer\u2019s Boys: top CSEC 2016, third in Jamaica in the sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/jis.gov.jm\/inner-city-student-achieves-despite-odds\/\">Ainsworth Morris, JIS News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>December 13, 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KINGSTON, Jamaica \u2014 JIS News, reprinted in the Caribbean by Magnetic Media on 13 December 2017, profiled Renaldo Facey, then 18, of Denham Town and an upper-sixth student at Wolmer\u2019s Boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JIS recorded nine CSEC grade ones \u2014 biology, chemistry, physics, human and social biology, additional mathematics, principles of accounts, literature, English language and mathematics \u2014 and five CAPE Unit 1 grade ones (chemistry, biology, physics, entrepreneurship, communication studies). He was \u201cthe top performer for Wolmer\u2019s Boys\u2019 School in the 2016 sitting of the CSEC examinations\u201d and \u201cranked third in Jamaica for the science subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 28 November 2017 he received a Board of Supervision \/ Poor Relief Association scholarship. Desmond McKenzie, then minister of local government and MP for Western Kingston, told JIS he would pay the full cost of Renaldo\u2019s bachelor\u2019s degree after sixth form in 2018. Facey said he wanted to become a medical doctor. \u201cI want others to believe that they can be successful regardless of what they may be facing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/jis.gov.jm\/inner-city-student-achieves-despite-odds\/\">JIS News<\/a>, December 13, 2017. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>JIS original: \u201cInner City Student Achieves Despite the odds.\u201d Caribbean reprint: Magnetic Media, 13 December 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ainsworth Morris, JIS News December 13, 2017 KINGSTON, Jamaica \u2014 JIS News, reprinted in the Caribbean by Magnetic Media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}