Monday, April 27, 2026

Chekita fought to the end

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EVEN IN THE FACE of death, Chekita Belgrave was brave.

Last month the 20-year-old lost her battle to a rare form of cancer while undergoing chemotherapy at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, following surgery in Canada.

She was being treated for osteogenic sarcoma, a cancerous bone tumour which had grown inside her mouth.

At the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Rose Hill, St Peter, on Saturday, hundreds of friends and family paid their final respects to the former Queen’s College student. (TG)

Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

 

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