Jamaica College (JC) 9th grader, Derryk McGregor excels at CAPE, CSEC

 BY KIMBERLEY HIBBERT Senior staff reporter hibbertk@jamaicaobserver.com  Sunday, October 18, 2020

FOURTEEN-Year-Old Derryk MacGregor is not your average teenager.

In fact, from as early as age six, MacGregor's mother, Dawn MacGregor-Bromfield, embraced his curiosity by allowing him to freely explore places they visited. This free reign, she said, would often result in her younger son engaging adults in deep conversation and bringing them to meet her wherever they were.

Derryk McGregor of Jamaica College & Mom

“I always knew he would circle back. If not alone, he would come back with an adult in deep conversation. Once he came back with the head of security of an establishment. Another time we were at a play, and he wanted to see what was behind a door, so I let him go. After a good while he emerged with the stage manager, also named Derrick, having a deep discussion that they had different names as his was spelt uniquely,” MacGregor-Bromfield told the Jamaica Observer.

This continued through prep school where Derryk preferred to engage his teachers in conversation and his curiosity developed into a love for science, which has remained with him in his high school years at Jamaica College (JC). more