The Bahamas – Blind Student dubbed Student of the Year

Hope Town’s Anna Albury trumps 115 candidates for student of the year title. She’s been fully blind since birth, but this doesn’t matter to Anna Albury, the 12-year-old student at Hope Town School who was recently crowned Primary School Student of the Year over 115 of the brightest candidates from around the country. “I am like just any other child. I do not look at myself as having a disability. I just happen to be blind,” said the sixth grader.

Guyana – Visually Impaired Woman Burnt to Death

A visually impaired woman was burnt to death Wednesday night inside the house she was occupying at Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. Dead is 52-year old Hazel Johnson. Her charred remains were found near a door on the bottom flat. The fire occurred at 31 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam. The house was owned by Patrick Benon, who had decades ago headed a secretarial school. The woman lived there for two years.