Prime Minister honours B.B. Coke High students who assisted beaten schoolmate

   

The five students of B.B. Coke High School in St. Elizabeth who assisted their schoolmate, 14-year-old Jaheim Colman, to a medical facility last week after he was assaulted by a fellow student, were today honoured by Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

 

The students - Leon Barnes, Khari Green, Deajuan Gordon, Dejuan Powell and Garry Bartley - were presented with laptops and plaques at the Office of the Prime Minister.

 

Mr. Holness said their action assisted in saving the life of their fellow schoolmate. 

 

"I am not here proposing to say 'reward' because this must be done without any contemplation of a reward but that it has happened and that we are grateful that it has happened, that Jaheim is grateful, that Jaheim's survival today could be tied to the actions of these young men, that in acknowledging it we also give tokens that they can have to recall this moment and to enlist them as ambassadors for good and ambassadors of positive behaviour," Mr. Holness said. 

 

The Prime Minister suggested that the action of the boys is a reaffirmation that the core of the society remains intact.