As an attorney-at-law with a thriving private law practice, Ian Wilkinson has his hands full.
Away from the court room, Wilkinson, who is the past president of the Jamaican Bar Association and the current president of the Jamaica Chess Federation, also an active member of Kingston College’s alumni. His numerous roles gives Wilkinson the arduous task of balancing a busy schedule with fatherhood.
The affable Queen’s Counsel, who is father to two adult males – Andrew, 31; Chevian, 22; and an impressionable eight year-old Tassja, manages to keep the bar, his social life and home happy all at the same time.
For the “KC Old Boy”, fatherhood is a job like no other and one, which he relishes. “It’s a privilege to be a seminal part of continuing the circle of life and the universe,” he tells Buzzz Magazine.
The boy who came from Text Lane, Downtown Kingston had great examples to follow in parents Valsie Wilkinson and Inez Ricketts.
In 1987, Wilkinson topped his class at the Norman Manley Law School graduating with an LLB and the Norman Manley Award for Excellence.
The 50 year-old chess pro, who has represented Jamaica at seven consecutive World Chess Olympiads was also the first English-speaking Caribbean to serve as judge on the World Chess Federation. Proud author of two books on Chess, highlighting the little things, which makes fatherhood special to him, he states: “praying, reading bedtime stories, teaching them Chess and French”, which Wilkinson has obtained mastery, is fundamental. Also doing “homework and school pick-ups” and imparting “worldly wisdom.”
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As an attorney-at-law with a thriving private law practice, Ian Wilkinson has his hands full.
Away from the court room, Wilkinson, who is the past president of the Jamaican Bar Association and the current president of the Jamaica Chess Federation, also an active member of Kingston College’s alumni. His numerous roles gives Wilkinson the arduous task of balancing a busy schedule with fatherhood.
The affable Queen’s Counsel, who is father to two adult males – Andrew, 31; Chevian, 22; and an impressionable eight year-old Tassja, manages to keep the bar, his social life and home happy all at the same time.
For the “KC Old Boy”, fatherhood is a job like no other and one, which he relishes. “It’s a privilege to be a seminal part of continuing the circle of life and the universe,” he tells Buzzz Magazine.
The boy who came from Text Lane, Downtown Kingston had great examples to follow in parents Valsie Wilkinson and Inez Ricketts.
In 1987, Wilkinson topped his class at the Norman Manley Law School graduating with an LLB and the Norman Manley Award for Excellence.
The 50 year-old chess pro, who has represented Jamaica at seven consecutive World Chess Olympiads was also the first English-speaking Caribbean to serve as judge on the World Chess Federation. Proud author of two books on Chess, highlighting the little things, which makes fatherhood special to him, he states: “praying, reading bedtime stories, teaching them Chess and French”, which Wilkinson has obtained mastery, is fundamental. Also doing “homework and school pick-ups” and imparting “worldly wisdom.”
To continue reading , purchase Vol. 7 #10 2015 issue
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