Excerpt from the Jamaica Observer column published on Monday, February 7, 2022
By Jean Lowrie-Chin
Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding must have been pleased to hear his daughter, Government Senator Sherene Golding Campbell, piloting the Bill amending the Sisters of Mercy Jamaica Act. Golding attended Sisters of Mercy-run Alpha Primary School.
We are proud that the founder of Convent of Mercy Academy “Alpha”, Jessie Ripoll, was a Jamaican woman who bought the land at South Camp Road and welcomed the first orphan to Alpha Cottage on May 1, 1880. When the numbers grew, Sisters of Mercy arrived in Jamaica 10 years later to give their support and Ripoll took the name of Mother Claver.
Opposition and government senators were of one voice in praising the work of the Sisters of Mercy and agreeing to the amendment which does not ascribe the governance of the organisation to individuals, but to a body corporate.
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