Con­grat­u­la­tions are in or­der for Can­del Cuffie for mak­ing the ac­count­ing fra­ter­ni­ty and in­deed all of T&T proud on her re­mark­able achieve­ment of plac­ing first in the world in the As­so­ci­a­tion of Char­tered Cer­ti­fied Ac­coun­tants ex­am­i­na­tions. Her achieve­ment is mind-bog­gling when it is re­alised that 424,000 stu­dents from 170 coun­tries sat this high­ly ac­cred­it­ed ex­am­i­na­tion.

Ever since her trail­blaz­ing aca­d­e­m­ic ex­ploits at this coun­try's first Pen­te­costal high school-Mir­a­cle Min­istries' Pen­te­costal High-where she copped the cov­et­ed Most Out­stand­ing Aca­d­e­m­ic Over­all Stu­dent Award in 2006, this young woman's achieve­ments con­tin­ue to mo­ti­vate and in­spire her peers and all youths alike to ex­cel in their cho­sen fields.

Ex­tra­or­di­nar­i­ly, too, Can­del's sis­ters, Sherose, Win­sie-ann and Vic­t­ri­na, were not out­done and have all achieved ex­cel­lent grades in aca­d­e­mics and ex­tra-cur­ric­u­lar ac­tiv­i­ties. It is note­wor­thy that de­spite the school hav­ing on­ly opened its doors in 2001, and as such be­ing a rel­a­tive­ly new school, it is pac­ing it­self along­side long-es­tab­lished ed­u­ca­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions and col­leges and is grad­u­al­ly emerg­ing as one of the pres­tige high schools in the coun­try.

As we con­tin­ue to cel­e­brate and mar­vel at Can­del's schol­ar­ly achieve­ment, it is ob­vi­ous to all that her suc­cess­es and that of her sib­lings were honed by her fa­ther, Rev Win­ston Cuffie, founder of Mir­a­cle Min­istries In­ter­na­tion­al and the coun­try's first Pen­te­costal min­is­ter to be ho­n­oured, in 2011, with the Cha­co­nia Gold-for out­stand­ing, vi­sion­ary and in­deli­ble con­tri­bu­tions to ed­u­ca­tion and com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice to this coun­try. Take a bow, Can­del, as all of T&T salutes you in your mo­ment of glo­ry.

Col­in Ghouralal

Ch­agua­nas