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An­na-Lisa Paul

Stand­ing in the au­di­to­ri­um of his son’s school sur­round­ed by chat­ter­ing young­sters, Kert­nell James was tak­en aback when the old­er of his two sons told him: “I want to be just like you, Dad­dy!”

They were words of en­cour­age­ment for the 36-year-old San­gre Grande res­i­dent who had long con­sid­ered him­self a jack of all trades and mas­ter of noth­ing in par­tic­u­lar.