Ker­ron Sealy—more com­mon­ly known as Sun­ny Bling—is a pop­u­lar voice on the ra­dio and a fa­mil­iar face on CNC3, now he is us­ing his suc­cess to sup­port and em­pow­er the youths of his En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas com­mu­ni­ty.

Sun­ny grew up in Home­land Gar­dens, which is a stone throw away from the heart of the tur­moil in the Cen­tral com­mu­ni­ty over the past few years.

"In the ear­lies when things start­ed to go sour with­in the last two years it struck as in wow, you now un­der­stand­ing places like Laven­tille and when they talk about Beetham in years gone by with the kind of stig­ma it would have been."

He said he was faced with ques­tions reg­u­lar­ly about why he opt­ed to con­tin­ue liv­ing in the com­mu­ni­ty. But he ex­plained that while things are not good, it is not as bad as it is be­ing made out to be to the na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty.

Yet head­lines about mur­ders, gang vi­o­lence, and oth­er heinous crimes have in­spired Sun­ny in­to ac­tion. Now he is do­ing his part to re­store the good im­age of his home town and keep the area crime-free.

"Per­son­al­ly, I just do what I con­sid­er to be my civic du­ty as a mem­ber of the com­mu­ni­ty and giv­en the po­si­tion that I am in…that is how I see my­self, get­ting in­volved with the com­mu­ni­ty groups that are al­ready ac­tive. So yes, I see my­self as high­ly in­volved in char­i­ta­ble ef­forts that I do pri­vate­ly with schools and dif­fer­ent peo­ple, but for my com­mu­ni­ty, the best way for me to re­al­ly im­pact would be to go through the com­mu­ni­ty groups that are al­ready up and ex­ist­ing."

Last year Sun­ny col­lab­o­rat­ed with the Dass Trace Youth Em­pow­er­ment Com­mit­tee to do a ten-week bas­ket­ball pro­gramme where he of­fered some of the sport­ing equip­ment as well as the tro­phies and medals and a cash prize of one thou­sand dol­lars every week.

He said many pos­i­tives came out of the ini­tia­tive, in­clud­ing a for­eign bas­ket­ball coach train­ing youths in the area.

"So with­in than ten-week pe­ri­od we saw some­thing hap­pen, we saw a lit­tle ecosys­tem of good­ness come to­geth­er."

This year he de­cid­ed to give cash do­na­tions to the NGOs in En­ter­prise to help with their ef­forts.

"I de­cid­ed that I can­not be every­where, and I am on­ly one hu­man be­ing. I am not a min­is­ter or may­or, no coun­cil­lor, noth­ing like that, and it is not even a po­lit­i­cal thing, it is just that I must be able to give back to my own com­mu­ni­ty. I grew up here, we see­ing what’s go­ing on here, I have chil­dren of my own; I am a fa­ther of three and I have no in­ten­tions of go­ing any­where."

Sun­ny's hope for En­ter­prise is to see the re­turn of a flour­ish­ing com­mu­ni­ty.