Regaled by his maternal grandmother about the exploits of lawyers at the Matthews Ridge Magistrate Court, a young Jensen Samaroo was so intrigued not just by the stories but the obvious admiration she had for lawyers that he resolved in his heart to become a legal luminary she would be proud of.
His desire to become a lawyer was twofold though, as while he wanted his grandmother Ivy Dawson’ s admiration, he also heard stories of people who went unrepresented because they could not afford a lawyer and he wanted to be able to help. While his journey to fulfilling that dream is still ongoing, Samaroo, who grew up in Port Kaituma, recently scored a big victory that he is still savouring: valedictorian at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus. He graduated with a first-class honours degree in political science with a minor in international relations, a programme he had initially seen as a stepping stone to him entering the law faculty.
