WATCH: St Elizabeth police escort top PEP student to graduation
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — There was jubilation in the southern-central town of Santa Cruz on Wednesday with police outriders, sirens blaring and a red carpet rolled out for Jasonnia Beadle, the top primary student in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams.
Jasonnia is among 60 Park Mountain Primary school students graduating on Wednesday at the St Matthew’s Anglican Church in Santa Cruz.
The police escort was organised by head of the St Elizabeth division Superintendent Coleridge Minto.
Park Mountain Primary and Infant was placed in the national spotlight last week when Jasonnia was named the overall top primary student in the 2026 PEP attaining a score of 394.2.
Jasonnia, the school’s head girl, and her schoolmate Najhay Nish, top boy at the institution, led the graduating class in marching inside the Anglican Church.
— Kasey Williams
