Jamaica-born Carol Sharpe elected to NY Supreme Court

Jamaica-born Carol Sharpe has been elected as a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.

She was elected during Tuesday's election in the United States.

Sharpe, who grew up in Kingston, is the sixth of seven children for her parents, Dorothy and Scebert Sharpe.

In Jamaica, she attended the Half-Way Tree Primary and The Queen's schools.

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