St ELIZABETH, Jamaica – Nain High School in St Elizabeth has been rocked by the death of its electrical technology teacher, Nichoy Briscoe, who succumbed Monday to injuries he received in a motorcycle accident earlier this month.

Briscoe is the second teacher to have died in St Elizabeth since the start of the year.
Reports reaching Observer Online are that the 27-year-old educator crashed while driving his motorcycle along the Prospect main road in the parish on January 8.

Nain High Principal Stevon Sheriffe said Briscoe’s death has left his students and colleagues devastated.

“The staff and the students are still devastated. They are still devastated after we received the news on Monday morning of his passing,” Sheriffe told Observer Online on Wednesday afternoon.

“We are taking it very hard; the students are taking it hard,” he lamented.

The headmaster said the Ministry of Education provided grief counselling to the students and staff who are struggling to come to terms with the teacher’s passing.

Sheriffe described the skilled-area teacher as a “promising young man”.

“He was very good at his subject areae; very helpful teacher; very cooperative and easy going person. His students loved and appreciated him for who he was,” Sheriffe said.

Three weeks ago, Roger Clarke High school was plunged into mourning with the death of its information technology teacher, Damani Campbell.

Campbell, who was said to be the ‘life of the institution’, reportedly collapsed while preparing breakfast with his spouse. He later died at the hospital.

– Kimberley Peddie