Rebecca Crosdale was born on the island of Jamaica in 1955. The first fourteen years of her life were spent there helping her grandparents on their small farm. During her years in Jamaica, she learned the valuable lesson of hard work. It was a culture where children were expected to work as hard as grownups and some times even harder. In the meantime, she attended the Middleton Primary School to the age of twelve and then Morant Bay High until she was fourteen. She immigrated to England at the age of fourteen where she joined her father who had been living there for some time. She began attend...