– to receive associate degree from CXC
Naomi Christie who attended the New Amsterdam Multi-lateral School (NAMS) has been confirmed as the top student of the country for the Caribbean Advanced Pro-ficiency Examinations (CAPE) for 2006 to 2008 and is elated at her achievements.
The 18-year-old has secured five grade ones including two distinctions, two grade twos and four grade threes.
She has achieved Grade One passes in Law Unit 1 with Distinction, Law Unit 2, Sociology Unit 1, Sociology Unit 2 and Caribbean Studies Unit 1 with a Distinction.
Naomi has also achieved Grade Two passes in Communications Studies Unit 1, Literature in English Unit 1 and Literature in English Unit 2 as well as Grade Three in Geography, Management of Business Unit 1 and Management of Business Unit 2.
Because of her outstanding performance in certain subjects, the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) will present her with an Associate Degree in Humanities.
Headmistress of NAMS Jackie Benn told this newspaper that the Examinations Division had issued a letter to the school two weeks ago indicating that Naomi had scored the highest grades in the country at CAPE “over a two-year period”.
Juliet Persico, Superin-tendant of Exams confirmed this to Stabroek News last week, adding that Aliza De Nobrega, also of NAMS, had placed second in the country for the same period, while “a boy from QC got third.”
Persico said she wished to “congratulate the girls in Berbice (Christie and De Nobrega) for doing well and for making their school proud.” She said too that their good performance would help in their success in the long-run.
When Stabroek News contacted Naomi she expressed “heartfelt satisfaction for achieving these grades with the help of God, through his perfect guidance and support and I acknowledge him in every way.”
She also said, “I’m elated with my success; this could have only been possible to the mighty works of Jesus Christ.”
Naomi of Vryman’s Erven, NA is also grateful to her parents, Pearl and Rockcliff Christie, owners of the Little Rock Television Station and the Little Rock Suites as well as her “aunt Devika Meenkum for the continuous support with all respects.”
She also owes her achievements to her hard work and dedication to her studies as well as to extra lessons.
Naomi who is currently pursuing studies in law at the University of Guyana also wished to thank her teachers at the NAMS: Ms Shaundel Philips, Ms Jackie Benn, Ms Jonelle Jacques, Ms Seleste La Rose, Sir Narinedat Dhanraj among others.
She told this newspaper that “CAPE has been a challenge for many of my colleagues including myself, but faith, confidence and dedication has gotten us through it.”
She also said, “I am thankful that I am able to make New Amsterdam Multilateral proud, I owe this school a lot, and with such dedicated teachers and peers one cannot go wrong.”
She advises that “success in this field requires dedication and determination which I am willing to put my best foot forward….”
Further, the top student said that she is “aspiring to follow fellow Berbician Patricia Bacchus, now an attorney-at-law who hails from the same secondary school who has set a standard I hope to achieve.”