BY GARFIELD MYERS Editor-at-Large South Central Bureau
President of Northern Caribbean University, Dr Lincoln Edwards, remembers being truly “frightened” one day in 2011 when he visited the tough St James community of Flanker for the very first time.
His fear wasn’t for his own physical safety; rather, it was fear for society.
“I had never before seen so many young men just sitting on a wall doing nothing, and it really frightened me,” Edwards, a 56-year-old native of St Catherine, told the Jamaica Observer.
How, he wondered, is the Jamaican nation to progress; how is crime to be contained if so many of its brightest and best are left without hope, without training and ultimately without employment.
Now, as head of the Seventh- day Adventist-run NCU, Edwards believes he is well placed to help the university play a lead role in changing the pattern, breaking the cycle of crime, ignorance and backwardness by finding ways to help thousands of young people gain tertiary training and education.
