SHATTERED DREAM: 18-year-old road traffic victim, Leshawn Grant wanted to become JAMAICA's first female Governor General.... "She said, 'Mommy, we have a female prime minister, how is it we don't have a female governor general? I want to be the first one',"

Sunday, November 16, 2014    
Leshawn Grant dreamt of becoming Jamaica's first female governor general.
That dream, however, was shattered on August 10, 2012 when the 18-year-old Rusea's High School student was killed on Norman Manley Boulevard in Negril by a speeding car at approximately 5:15 pm.
Lashawn Grant
The tragedy occurred approximately five minutes after she completed her fourth day as a receptionist and had walked out of Traveller's Beach Resort to seek transportation home.
According to her mother, Carol Hale, 55, her daughter told her she wanted to become head of state months before she died.
"She said, 'Mommy, we have a female prime minister, how is it we don't have a female governor general? I want to be the first one'," Hale told Jamaica Observer last week.
Hale said that if her daughter were alive today, she would be at the University of the West Indies, Mona, pursuing a degree which would enable her to become a psychologist.
"At school she was a peer counsellor. She liked being in the position of hearing the stories of her peers, being their confidante and counselling them on issues which deeply affected them. It is [for] those reasons, she told me, she wanted to become a psychologist," Hale told Sunday Observer.
Hale said although it has been two years, three months and three days since she lost her only child, she still has sleepless nights, counts the days since the tragedy and tries her utmost not to become a victim of depression.
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Lashawn and her parents
"It's not easy, because my child had so much potential. She was a hard-working student. She was talented. She was successful in her exams and passed eight CSEC subjects and CAPE subjects with two distinctions," Hale said.
"As a single parent who has worked hard to take care of just one child, spending time moulding her into becoming a loving human being, it's not easy for me to move on. She was my only child. She had so much potential. She was not someone who stood behind. We were both looking forward to her completing sixth form and gracing a hall at the University of the West Indies in September last year, and it's painful to have this constant reminder that one speeding car just took her life," Hale said. more

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