McKnight: The children are growing up angry Chartered accountant sounds desperate alarm as he receives ICAJ Distinguished Member award

Leighton McKnight (right) receiving the Institute
of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica (ICAJ) Distinguished
 Member Award for 2017 from ICAJ President
Raymond Campbell,

BY DESMOND ALLEN Executive editor – special assignment allend@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, December 10, 2017

Forgetting that it was his moment of glory, Leighton McKnight made a desperate appeal for help for Jamaica's poorest children, on a night when he received the coveted Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica (ICAJ) Distinguished Member Award 2017.

Leighton McKnight shares his moment
of glory with six of his adopted daughters
/mentees at the ICAJ Annual Awards
 Banquet. The ladies, from left,
 are: Dayandria 

“The children are growing up angry and there is no end in sight,” McKnight told a full ballroom at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, honouring him for three decades of outstanding contribution to the accountancy/auditing profession and service to the ICAJ.

McKnight, who runs the Jamaican arm of world-renowned auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), has devoted his life to helping children from seriously deprived homes, assisting 50 of them with education and having the satisfaction of seeing several rise from virtually nothing to becoming university students or graduates. more