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Robert
Turner
- Secretary.
Robert
Turner is a son of Montego Bay, Jamaica. He is a past
student of both the Barracks Road Primary, and Harrison
Memorial High School, where he was the Deputy Head boy
for the period 1973-1974.
After his
graduation 1974, Mr. Turner’s first taste of the working
world, as at one of the Parishes’ most respected
accounting firm, B.D. Holmes & Co, where he did a one
year stint as an audit clerk. Subsequent to his tenure
at B.D Holmes, he went on to the National Youth Service
as an assistant clerk of courts with the Montego Bay RM
Court, serving for another one year period, before being
transferred to the post of assistant field officer for
the NYS in St. James.
Upon
completing his youth service duties, he was approached
by Attorney-at-Law Carl Miller, who was then managing
director of the Montego Bay Legal Aid Clinic, to take up
a vacant position as accountant for that body. This
turned out to be a position that he held for another
thirteen rewarding years, according to Mr. Turner, as he
was able to work a two-fold position, doubling as both
an accountant and legal clerk.
So rewarding
was his job, that he got to work alongside such famed
individuals in the ilk of Carl Miller, who later went on
to serve as MP of the constituency, plus the renowned
Ronnie Thwaites, Trevor Ho-Ling, Michael Clarke
(deceased), Albert Morgan, Pauline Simpson and the
current manager, Attorney Ian Max Cooke.
During this
period, he was instrumental in launching the Defenders
United Youth Club, along with a few friends. The club
had its home base in the inner-city community of Green
Pond. He served as president for a number of years, and
was elected as the club’s representative to the Social
Development Commission region 6 youth council.
At the Legal
Aid Clinic, he was appointed to the board of directors
as a member, working alongside such esteemed and notable
directors as the Hon Frank Pringle, (former Tourism
Minister), Clayton Morgan, Ronnie Thwaites, Carl Miller,
Roy Fairclough, Ms. Gloria Davis & Mr. George Holloway.
However, after thirteen years at the Legal Aid Clinic,
he decided to migrate to the USA, in order to further
his studies.
Upon arrival
in the USA the calling for higher education was so
strong, that he immediately enrolled at the Bronx
Community College of the City University of New York,
graduating with an AS degree in accounting. Continuing
his quest for knowledge, he applied and gain entrance to
The Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New
York, where he graduated in 1998 with a BBA degree.
One could
say that he has come full circle, as having attended
Bronx Community College; Robert is now employed as an
Accountant to that body, for the past ten years.
He is an
avid tennis and domino player, and loves to watch a good
game of soccer.
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