Orthopaedic surgeon bats for girls
Published:Friday | August 1, 2025 | 9:42 AMGareth Davis Sr/Gleaner Writer
Goblin Hill, Portland:
Certified orthopaedic spine surgeon and entrepreneur, Dr Kingsley Chin, is encouraging young women, who have enrolled in a mentorship programme in Portland, to adopt a positive attitude and to work towards achieving their goals, irrespective of challenges.
Chin, who was the guest speaker at a annual tea party on Sunday hosted by Girls Becoming, a mentoring programme based in Zion Hill in the parish and dedicated to empowering young women through education, life skills, and community support, spoke about the importance of young women aiming high, while addressing the audience at Goblin Hill.
“This is a tough world that we are living in with social media and vulgarity and all kinda stuff that is distracting. But look into that mirror and celebrate your beauty first,” Chin told the young women.
“As a girl you’re gonna become a wonderful woman. You’re gonna become a great mother and grandmother. And you are going to pursue your dreams to become a teacher, a lawyer, a doctor, and [or] an engineer. You have to be honest with yourself about a situation. Whenever you have self-doubt you need to find a way and to develop an understanding as to what is better.
“Focus on getting better, focus on recognising your situation, and see how you can develop a path and [by doing so] see how someone else managed to emerge successfully. Entrepreneurship... starting businesses is the way this world works. If you try 10 things and I try one, you will have 10 experiences and I have only one. And if you fail eight times you have two successes, and even if I succeed at that one thing, I only have one success. If you want to succeed in life, learn to recognise what you must not do,” Chin concluded.
Earlier, organiser Ingrid Stewart thanked the audience for supporting the third annual event of the tea party, heaping praises on the team members for their invaluable support towards the growth, development, and success of the programme.
“What we are really doing is trying to empower the girls and I know that I can be hard on the girls. I am just overwhelmed with the response. I had this ache to give back to this community (Zion Hill). So we partnered with six different primary schools and this is how the girls are chosen for this programme.”
Chin is past student of Titchfield High School in Portland, where he excelled in the sciences and was a top striker in the daCosta Cup football competition in the 1980s, before leaving for university in the United States.