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Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts
He hails from the crime-ravaged community of Gutters in Retirement St. James, but Tavin Shaw, a truly gifted player and the pride and joy of his mother, will not allow where he’s from to define his destination.
The 20-year-old ‘wash-belly’ for his family and self-motivator, has his eyes set on prestige and greatness, methodically mapping a direct path away from crime and violence.
‘Wingy’, as he is affectionately called, dreams of one day becoming a professional footballer as well as an entrepreneur.
A warrior on the field, but quiet and shy off it, Shaw, a graduate of Munro College, holds seven subjects at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) level, including Mathematics, Principles of Accounts, Principles of Business, English Language, Economics, Social Studies, Information Technology and Human and Social Biology.
Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts – Staff Reporter
Given a cricketer’s name at birth, but possessing no love for that sport, robust, vociferous, tough-talking and no-nonsense are just some of the words often used to describe the talented footballer, given name Chevoy Chanderpaul Watkin.
Watkin, popularly called ‘Seba Man’, remembers starting out in football at the tender age of 6. The rough-tackling defender, who reads the game extremely well, was born on November 11, 1995 in the lower class district of Retirement, Granville in St. James, to parents Ivett Evans and Erris Watkin.
A simple person off the field, full of laughter and well-known, Watkin holds a burning desire and has his eyes set on one day becoming a professional footballer. Now a resident in Camrose district, few metres from where he was born and raised, Watkin told the