The spice island of Grenada has given to the world, in the person of teenager Kirani James, a budding world-class athletic star. James won his country’s first ever gold medal in world championships athletics in the 400m final in Daegu with gladiatorial determination. The Usain Bolt lookalike threw his country of 110,000 inhabitants into a whirlwind of joy and frenzy – very much like Bolt did for Jamaica in Beijing and Berlin – when he pipped race favourite, American La Shawn Merritt, with admirable calm and composure beyond the gift of his 18 years. Read more>>

Source: Jamaica Observer