KINGSTON – The Kingston and St An­drew Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tion (KSAMC) has apol­o­gised to Ja­maican sprint icon Shelly-Ann Fras­er-Pryce over the mis­spelling of her name on a street sign un­veiled in her ho­n­our on Sun­day.

The sign, which was meant to mark the re­nam­ing of Ashoka Road in Wa­ter­house, St An­drew, as Shelly-Ann Fras­er-Pryce Dri­ve, in­stead had the Olympic and world cham­pi­on’s last name spelt as “Fras­er-Price”.

Speak­ing dur­ing the cer­e­mo­ny, KSAMC CEO Robert Hill ac­knowl­edged the mis­take and as­sured the pub­lic that a cor­rect­ed sign will be in­stalled short­ly.

“The cor­rect sign will be placed there in less than 12 hours’ time. Rest as­sured that that will be done,” Hill said.

“It does, and even you, Shelly-Ann, your­self have said, it does not take away from the mean­ing, sin­cer­i­ty, and the cel­e­bra­tion, and the im­por­tance of what to­day is.

“But these things some­times do hap­pen, and I apol­o­gise sin­cere­ly and whole­heart­ed­ly, for any in­con­ve­nience or any mis­un­der­stand­ing that may have en­sued from this er­ror,” he added.

De­spite the er­ror, Fras­er-Pryce said she was ho­n­oured by the recog­ni­tion and re­mained fo­cused on in­spir­ing young peo­ple in the com­mu­ni­ty where she grew up.

CMC