KRYSTAL VOLNEY'S BRIEF BIOGRAPHY AND OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT ME
A photo of me in Jamaica on vacation in 2009 #haircut #brunette #withoutmakeup #withoutedits
A cell phone photo of me in 2024
A photo of me in 2011 on a horse ranch in Maryland
A photo of me at Middleham Falls in Dominica in 2023
A photo of my best friend Lovonne Brown and I in 2019
A photo of me in January 2024 #cellphonephoto #withoutedits
A photo of me in July 2024 #haircut #brunettetoblonde #withoutedits
AUTHOR KRYSTAL VOLNEY'S INFORMATION ABOUT ME SUMMARY
(FOR FANS AND FRIENDS)
EARLY LIFE
Interviews from 2019 were done by Scott Douglas Jacobsen on my early personal life, discovery of giftedness and talents.
I was also interviewed by Itv presenter Antoine Allen in 2016 on his website 'AntoineSpeaks' about my childhood.
In the "Early personal life" interview I stated that, "My early life was very restricted as I had a very strict upbringing. I wanted to fit in with my friends in primary school so I was against my parents and was closely associated with a pedophile maid best friend Andre Sterling like a ‘Second mother’ as she was trusted who took me places as well to see my ‘friends’ but it was manipulation on her path. How could a pedophile have honestly wished well on me or been like ‘second family’ truly? She wanted me to be a failure in life and be a menace. When I look back at my childhood, I want to inspire children out there and let them know how important it is to tell their parents, guardians or family if someone is child grooming or sexually abusing them even if it means that they would be controlled more. My childhood abuser did not want me to tell my teachers, family, friends or parents and wanted me to see her as my ‘best friend’." I believe that I was 'brainwashed' as a child by that woman who lied to my family about who she had been, after she started abusing me at 5 years old by kissing me & touching my body parts sexually among other things, after starting to work for my parents at 3 years old and the maid introduced me to pornographic tv programs when I was being babysat in my pre-teens. I remember telling a friend in primary school about the situation, but she did not tell the Principal or any teachers. When my parents were not around my childhood home, in my pre-teens for example, I watched a tv show in the early morning hours called 'Queer as Folk' (unsuitable for kids due to the content) with the pedophile as well who told me to never tell my family, trying to seduce my thinking along with a hardcore pornographic tape she bought for me to watch with her when I was barely a teenager. Andre told me to kill my mother, when I was a little girl, so that I would not be controlled anymore but I loved my parents and violence never solves anything.
I started to smoke marijuana casually/secretly (not addicted in any way) at 14 years old when the maid brought it to my home and would drink alcohol all of the time in my adolescence, like many teenagers that wanted to be "adults" before the legal age. I was also a teeny bopper. I would practice djing with my older brother Chris who was part of a dj group in secondary school called 'Siberia Sounds'. I believe that due to the child sexual abuse/child grooming by the maid, I was blinded throughout my childhood and adolescence with regards to decision-making before I developed a spiritual relationship with Jesus as a Born-Again Christian.
As I remember, my parents were very kind people while they were still married, although very strict, and would always visit and invite children from St. Dominic's Children's Home in Belmont, Trinidad with Sister Marina to the main family home I grew up in for breakfast parties after church. The pedophile was so manipulative that she did not want me to see what she was doing as evil or wrong and would often go to church with my family on Sunday mornings for the weekly hour service. She also had a bible in her bedroom at the house. I remember the roof of my childhood home (the only roof in the neighborhood with similar roofs) having several or more corbeaux (Trinidadian Black Vultures) settled on it when I returned home after secondary school daily on afternoons and believe that the woman put witchcraft on my family. I did not tell my parents or family anything until I was 19 years old although I told a classmate in primary school and a friend in secondary school. Although there were times that I got A+ in particular subjects on my report cards, I struggled academically at Maria Regina Grade School because of what transpired with the pedophile although I was the Head Girl in Grade 5.
I believe that most people are former victims of something and want to be an advocate for children around the world, which led me to join the Heroes Foundation (Big Brother, Big Sister) in 2010 although I am no longer a member/volunteer. As an adult, I do not smoke anything and do not drink alcohol (only on rare & holiday occasions).
Although my older siblings were not victims of the pedophile, my brother Chris Volney was kidnapped at age 21 and put in his car trunk at gun point, left to suffocate there but survived while his ex-girlfriend was raped in his same car in front of him.
Another experience when I was in my adolescence was when my family friend/bodyguard Derrick Nelson from Tobago was attacked with guns and broke both legs in a dry river when he attempted to escape. He died in the hospital. The reason for his attack was because he got involved with a woman from the courthouse and was seen as the "Perfect Romeo".
I remember the good people who worked for my family like the dead bodyguard who died in the hospital because of the gun injuries, the family police officer Jason Seecharan from Award-winning soca group H20 Phlo and other loyal people such as my childhood driver Andy Absalom from Santa Cruz, Trinidad. I also had a live at home 'sister' Nicole Ross from St. Dominic's Children's Home in Belmont, Trinidad as a child and adolescent who I have not seen since then.
In 1996 when my family and I were travelling to Europe for the first time, one of the engines of the aircraft caught on fire while in the air and I remember it being traumatizing as a child. The plane had an emergency landing in Barbados.
My favorite leisure books as a child were The Secret Island' as well as Five on Kirrin Island Again by Enid Blyton and best loved video game was 'The Legend of Zelda'.
I have never been married and do not have any children because I do not want to, loving single life forever especially since men are such players so I don't care. I have two nieces (14 and 19) and a nephew.
According to the Christian bible, Fornication and Adultery are sins.
However, I do not judge or condemn anyone including what is condemned in the bible as I am not God, humbly, and it states in Matthew 7:1-3
"7 Judge not, that ye be not judged.2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
I know people who are my friends who do not believe in the same things as me & do not judge them in any way because I know that human beings like myself had different experiences and lifestyles so who am I to assess anyone? Who am I.
When I was a teenager, I modelled for an Award-winning Carnival costume band in 2007 in Tnt and was a Brand Ambassador/Promotional model for Sunsilk Hair Brand in Trinidad after being discovered at Inglefield, Ogilvy & Mather Caribbean Ltd. after an audition in 2007-2008.
I did not pursue modelling internationally although I had the opportunity to do more locally after another audition at Triniscene. My parents did not allow me to model before 18 years old although I wanted to.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
I graduated from Maria Regina Grade School before graduating from St. Joseph's Convent, Port-of-Spain where I was the Victrix Ludorum for 3 years in a row. I received a bronze relay medal in the 200m with Nyoka Giles at the Secondary School Championships in Trinidad. Although I struggled academically in my early years because of the child sexual abuse I secretly endured by the pedophile maid, at CXC CSEC equivalent to O'Levels, I received 5 A's (I's) in English Language (Distinction), English Literature, Mathematics, Principles of Business and Spanish while I got II's in Biology, Caribbean History and French. I almost received a I (A) in Biology. At CXC Cape equivalent to A'levels, I received a I (A) in Caribbean Studies, I (A) in Communication Studies, a II (B) in Sociology and two III's in other subjects, graduating with my secondary school diploma in 2007. I received a Metaphysics certificate at FHEQ Level 4 in 2011 and an Undergraduate Advanced diploma at FHEQ Level 6 (with distinction) in Data & Systems Analysis at Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education from 2012-2013. I studied Computer Science & Poetry at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus in Jamaica for 1 year but don't have a degree in it. I graduated from the University of the West Indies with a Public Relations diploma and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, minor in Psychology then changed the minor to Communication Studies so I did a mixture of Sociology, Statistics, Psychology, Social Work, Poetry, Communication Studies and other courses. I graduated in 2020 with Second Class Honours based on the UWI GPA Grading Scale after 2014, where before I would have had a higher degree classification. I really like writing essays and received 5.0 out of 6 in the Analytical Writing Section of the GRE due to a flawed conclusion.
Literary Awards 2012-
2. Cultured Vultures Poetry Contest 2015- 3rd place winner for poem 'Oasis'
3. Rhysling Award Short Poem Category 2019 Finalist. Other nominees/finalists in the past of the award include Ray Bradbury, Brian Aldiss and Isaac Asimov. My bio is here.
4. Finalist for Poetry on the Lake Short Story Contest 2021 for theme 'Haunted' on my short story 'Terrestrial Realms' about Dominica, Hurricane Maria and Paramin, Trinidad judged by Award-winning Author and Poet D.M. Thomas
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FAMILY BACKGROUND
My deceased father Herbert Volney was Montserratian-Dominican-Trinidadian who was mixed with Amerindian/Kalinago/Island Carib, part-African, White British and French. Educated at St. Mary's Academy, Dominica, the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados with a Bachelor of Laws degree, he was a controversial High Court Judge from the 90's when he became a Diplomat, then Minister of Justice in the Trinbagonian government, controversial politician and short story writer. He died in December 2022 at 69 years old from a heart attack after suffering from heart disease for more than a decade, causing his weight gain.
My paternal deceased grandparents with some of my Uncles (including deceased Uncle Cyril, my dead father and one of my Aunts in Dominica
My 70-year-old Trinidadian mother is Black of Yoruba, Barbadian, Portuguese and Island Carib descent through her parents. A former Diplomat, she was educated at Holy Name Convent Secondary School, the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Barbados with a Bachelor of Laws degree and worked as a tax Attorney-at-law then on the Integrity Commission of Trinidad and Tobago.
My maternal grandmother more than a decade ago
My maternal grandparents when they were young and when he was alive
My grandmother a decade ago
My paternal cousin (and my family's from Dominica as well such as my deceased grandmother Rosalind Volney's) was the poet Phyllis Shand Allfrey and my paternal great-great-grandfather was Sir Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls from Dominica.
My great-great-great-Uncle was his brother Frederic Nicholls from Canada (both sons of Thomas William Nicholls and Elizabeth Pitkin) who was one of the founders of the Art Gallery of Ontario. He appeared on the 1906 Cover of Busy Man's Magazine currently known as Maclean's in Canada.
My entire paternal family is most likely related to Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney from France through my great-grandfather Joseph Henry Louis Volney from Saint Lucia.
My deceased St. Lucian paternal grandfather Cyril Fredrick Louis Volney was a Cable & Wireless Manager while he was alive.
I met many of my Uncles, Aunts and cousins for the first time in person in 2014 at our family reunion.
My deceased maternal grandfather was born in Barbados but represented Trinidad & Tobago in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, then he worked as the personal bodyguard of the Rt. Hon. Dr. Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister. He later studied law in the U.K. and became a Magistrate in Tnt before he died when I was a baby. The family in Trinidad & Barbados did not know that he was an Olympic sprinter when he was young but knew that he was a runner and bodyguard.
I did not know about my family history/ancestry until my late twenties & early thirties and I encourage my online-offline fans/friends to do the same thing too as you may find something interesting.
Other information about me is that I'm 5 ft 6".
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