{"id":3262,"date":"2019-12-09T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2019-12-09T17:14:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T17:14:17","slug":"heroic-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3262","title":{"rendered":"Heroic \u2018Princess\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><strong>Child hero honoured for saving little sister<\/strong><\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Alan Lewin\/MGN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>When adults in the\ncommunity of Ban Lane, Paradise, froze as a blaze consumed the one-bedroom\ndwelling in which her three siblings were trapped, six-year-old Cory Ann\nPalmer, affectionately called \u2018Princess\u2019, sprang into action. She dashed into\nthe burning house \u2013 to the horror of the watching adults, and after a\nbreath-catching moment, she re-emerged, clutching her one-year-old sister in\nher arms. Though she was unable to save her two brothers \u2013 who tragically\nperished in the fire, her community, her school, Albion Primary and Junior High\nand the Ministry of Education, recognized her as a hero, and recently, she was\nhonoured.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cory Ann Palmer, amidst the cheers in what was surely a\nbittersweet moment, was honoured last Tuesday for her bravery \u2013 the sole reason\nher beloved one-year-old sister is now in hospital recovering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Albion Primary and Junior High, acting in conjunction\nwith the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information and the Region 4 QEC 36\nOutreach Programme, paid homage to the little hero at the school\u2019s Carol\nService, awarding her with a medal and a plaque. She also received food items,\nclothing and a bed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stacey Ann Brown, Cory Ann\u2019s aunt with whom she now lives, says while she is so proud of her niece, it remains extremely painful to speak about the fire and the fact that her nephews met such a tragic and untimely end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/THESE-ARE-FOR-YOU.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/THESE-ARE-FOR-YOU.jpg 500w, https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/THESE-ARE-FOR-YOU-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption><em>THESE ARE FOR YOU: Shamara Brissett Gordon, Education Officer, Region Four, Ministry of Education (centre),  makes a presentation to Stacey-Ann  Brown,  aunt of Cory Ann Palmer (fourth from left), along with  officials from various entities including the Ministry of Education. The gathering and awards presentation took place at the Hillview Baptist Church.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRight now, I don\u2019t like talking about it. It is reliving\nthe pain all over. I was devastated because I was asleep and I woke up and saw\nCory Ann outside with the baby, and I was wondering what was happening with the\nboys. I was confused, anxious, feeling bad \u2013 all of that and more. I was\nscared, and all sorts of things were going through my mind. I had the phone and\nwas trying to call the police, but because I was in shock, I could not find the\nnumber, I was already traumatized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SPACE PROBLEM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Miss Brown said while the family is struggling to come to\nterms with the tragedy, they are also facing space problems as they do not have\nthe space to put the beds they have been given. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t have enough space where we are now. Dr. Chang\n(Member of Parliament) had promised to help us to build back a structure, but\nwe have not heard anything more from him yet, so we are waiting,\u201d she\nconcluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cory Ann\u2019s two brothers, eight-year-old Javinci Palmer and\none-year-old Tyler McLeod, were unable to escape the blaze, perishing in the\nincident which saw their mother being brought into police custody, on suspicion\nof negligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When adults in the community of Ban Lane, Paradise, froze as a blaze consumed the one-bedroom dwelling in which her three siblings were trapped, six-year-old Cory Ann Palmer, affectionately called \u2018Princess\u2019, sprang into action. She dashed into the burning house \u2013 to the horror of the watching adults, and after a breath-catching moment, she re-emerged, clutching her one-year-old sister in her arms. Though she was unable to save her two brothers \u2013 who tragically perished in the fire, her community, her school, Albion Primary and Junior High and the Ministry of Education, recognized her as a hero, and recently, she was honoured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1671,1672,271,1675,1673,59,1615,1674],"class_list":["post-3262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-albion-primary-and-junior-high","tag-cory-ann-palmer","tag-fire","tag-hero","tag-javinci-palmer","tag-ministry-of-education","tag-princess","tag-tyler-mcleod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3262\/revisions\/3265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}