An award has been bestowed on former Premier Ewart Brown by Jamaica’s St Jago High School, an institution that he has credited for playing a “pivotal” role in his school days.

Dr Brown was expected to be presented with the school’s OR Bell Laureate Award at St Jago’s 271st Anniversary Reunion Banquet yesterday in New York.

“I am grateful to be honoured by St. Jago; a school that holds a special place in my heart,” Dr Brown said. He attended the school from 1959 to 1964.

Dr Brown added that there had been a time in his childhood when he had thought that “maybe school was not in my future”.

“I came to St. Jago and actually got a new lease on life. That’s why I think I have this deep love and affection for Jamaica and St. Jago,”

Senior military officers have graduated from the school, along with globally recognised cricketers, academic scholars, performing artists and Olympic athletes.