The Catholic News
March 17, 1959
1971
ABJ entered Fatima College in 1971, where he was the troop leader of the Fatima Sea Scouts, and captain of the regatta team that won the Morrison Trophy in rowing and swimming in 1973 and 1974.
1978
While a member and examiner in the Royal Life Saving Society during the Fatima years, he achieved the Distinction Award, the highest life-saving certification available. His father died while he was in Lower Six, and upon leaving school in 1978 with passes in Physics, Chemistry and Math, he took over the family’s business.
1981
He managed this business successfully for three years. Then in 1981, he entered the Living Water Community, a lay ecclesial community in Trinidad, and began his seminary formation at St John Vianney and the Uganda Martyrs, Mt St Benedict, Trinidad. He graduated with a first class honours BA degree in Theology from The University of West Indies.