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Diaspora stalwart Dr Karren Dunkley humbled to receive OD
Top Stories Tamfitronics For service to the Jamaican Diaspora in the United States, Dr Karren Dunkley will be conferred with the Order of Distinction (OD), in the rank of Officer, on National Heroes Day, October 21.The daughter of a corrections officer and an insurance salesman, Dr. Dunkley, whose mantra is “To serve is to live”, recalls spending many summers in Elderslie, St Elizabeth, which is the birthplace of her parents and grandparents.Dr Dunkley grew up in Ensom City, St Catherine, where she attended St Catherine High School and graduated as valedictorian in 1989, before transitioning to Wolmer’s Girls for sixth form.She then moved to the United States on a student visa to pursue an undergraduate degree in political science and education at St John's University.“When I came, like most immigrants, I had to work and...
