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Crippling Defeat

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With his teammate tumbling all over him, hard-tackling Montego Bay United central defender, Ladale Richie, gets a crunching tackle in on Portmore United’s Roberto Johnson during the Red Stripe Premier League match at Wespow Park. MBU suffered a stinging 2-1 defeat. Noelita Lawrence photo

Noelita Lawrence

  • MBU grounded

Montego Bay United’s hopes of a place in the playoffs of the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) were dashed on Sunday, following defeat to League champions Portmore United in the penultimate round of games on Sunday at Wespow Park.

The two-times champions, who were bidding for a fifth straight appearance in the semi-finals, turned in a lethargic performance, stuttering to a 2-1 defeat to their rivals, who they failed to win against for the entire season.

The beating was a second for the MBU team against the Portmore team, which included western players Ricardo Morris and former Cornwall College youth player, Venton Evans.

Dino Williams, from the penalty spot in the 82nd minute, found the consolation goal for home team with Damono Salmon and Rondee Smith, who found the winner the scorers for Portmore United.

American coach, Tim Hankinson, said “The team failed as they were just not good enough and failed to apply themselves almost always. Again, we failed again to take our chances and that, among other things, cost us the game. We were also flat at the beginning and after falling behind, we lacked the intensity needed to get back into the contest,” he noted.

The visitors had the first crack at goal when their captain, Rosario Harriot’s firm header from a corner kick crashed against the crossbar in just the third minute. Nine minutes later, MBU had their chance to take the lead, but Renaldo Rodney’s shot, after being put in clean in on goal, was dragged across the face of the goal.

With the visitors gaining the ascendancy and looking more composed, Captain Salmon sent them ahead when his powerful header, unchallenged from inside the area, rocketed into the back of the net.

Odane Nish, making his first start in more than a month, then had a chance to equalize for the MBU team but his firm header was well-saved at the near post by an alert Shaven Paul in goal for the Portmore team.

Nish’s second shot from the rebound was sent crashing into the side netting as the travelers went into the break with the slender advantage.

At the resumption, MBU again seemed left behind and despite a slightly improved showing, they failed to penetrate their opponents’ back line, amidst several good build-ups.

Portmore continued to dominate and should have gone further ahead midway the second half through two three-on-one breakaways into the opponents’ penalty area, each time thwarted by bad decision-making and once-good goalkeeping from Zavia Hutchinson.

MBU’S hopes were lifted eight minutes from time when they were awarded a penalty kick for a handled ball in the area.

Williams duly dispatched the 12-yard spot kick with venom, as his fierce shot rocketed into the back of the net.

The goal seemed to lift the home team and with their fans now chanting, they went on the run for the winner. They created the opportunities but failed to make them count, including one from point blank range from Williams.

Williams, unmarked and with time and space inside the penalty area, dragged a shot from about 14 yards out wide of the goal, when the simplest thing was to score, having been served up a teasing cross from substitute Johann Weatherly.

However, Portmore, although far from their best, but looking likely to score with every attack, with the MBU backline looking shaky, delivered the killer blow in the 89th minute when Smith got on the end of the counter-attack to slot home a cross by Ricardo Morris, a former MBU hitman.

The latest defeat dashed the playoff hopes of the Tucker-based MBU team.

Elsewhere, the two other western teams conceded eight goals down the middle and scored just once with Reno and Sandals South Coast going down 4-0 and 4-1 to Cavalier and UWI respectively.

Murders again on the rise

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Junior Raymond
  • Rose Heights chef killed

It seems the State of Public Emergency is fast losing its effectiveness, as on Monday night in Rose Heights, St. James, brazen gunmen unleashed a barrage of bullets at a well-known chef, killing him on the spot.

And as shooting incidents continue to be on the rise, a man narrowly escaped death in the community of Green Pond, after being ambushed along the main road by men traveling in a car, who opened fire at him in broad daylight. He luckily only sustained injuries.

The decomposing body of an unidentified man was also discovered in the Granville area on the weekend.

These incidents come on the heels of last week’s murder of a farmer in Amity Hall district, even as the parish continues to be under the gaze of the security forces.

The dead chef has been identified as 51-year-old Junior Raymond of Bay Route, Rose Heights.

Raymond, who was employed to a popular restaurant in the Rose Heights area, was gunned down by unknown assailants.

According to reports, the 51-year-old chef was on his way home when he was pounced upon and shot by armed hoodlums.

The Western Mirror understands that Raymond was scheduled to attend a court hearing today, as he was the complainant in a case of wounding.

Raymond, who was reportedly a diabetic, was allegedly attacked by men from his community who inflicted several cuts to his body, causing the injured chef to spend time recovering in hospital. The matter was reported to the police and it was in relation to that matter that he was due to appear in court today.

A close relative of Raymond, who wished not to be named, said he was a very jovial man who was loved by all he came in contact with. The relative disclosed that his killing is really affecting family members, who are finding it difficult to come to terms with his murder.

“He was so loved; never one to be involved in anything shady… such a pity his life was ended in such a manner,” the bereaved relative lamented.

AMITY HALL

Meanwhile, the Amity Hall murder victim has been identified as 59-year-old Roy Hines, otherwise called ‘Fitz’.

Detectives are combing for clues as to how Hines was shot and killed.

Reports are that residents stumbled upon the body of Hines along the Sunderland main road last Thursday and summoned them.

On their arrival, the body was discovered with gunshot wounds.

The scene was processed and the body removed.

BODY FOUND

In the meantime, as the bodies stack up, an unidentified male was found in a state of decomposition in a shack along the Pitfour main road last week, Tuesday, March 13.

Reports are that about 8:30 a.m., residents walking along the road way encountered a foul odour and upon investigation, they discovered the body in a shack on the side of the road.

The police were summoned and the scene processed before the body was removed to the morgue.

Investigation continues.

 

Jaguars roar on

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Inner-City Avalanche take final instructions from Galton Taylor and First Vice President of the Jamaica Basketball Association during a game in the Western Conference. Avalanche missed out on a place in the All-Island playoffs after having failed to win an encounter.

Noelita Lawrence

Granville Jaguars reaffirmed top spot in the Jamaica Basketball Association Western Conference League with a 74-41 clobbering of Inner-City Avalanche as Preliminary round action came to a close at the weekend.

Jaguars, with just one defeat from their ten matches played, led all the way as they trampled their winless and listless-looking opponents.

Dave Black and Tafari Vassell led the scoring for the winners with 16 and 15 points respectively, with Vassell also hauling down 16 rebounds.

All-Island Under-19 winner, Alek Gilchrist, also gave support, adding a double-double, 11 points and 10 rebounds, while 10 points came from Levar Rose.
Fabian Julian, 13 points and seven rebounds, led the way for the Avalanche.
The Jaguars, without being at their flamboyant best, were merciless throughout as they ran rings around their at times clueless-looking opponents, who ended the campaign without marking off a tick in the win column from ten games.

 

Kickers seek another 3 points

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In one of his rare attacking moves, Ricardo Robinson of Fire House goes between the Norwood Strikers pair of Anthony Mills (R) and Joveon Williams (L) in first half action of their sorry St. James FA Sandals/ATL Division One Football League. The contest ended in a 1-1 scoreline. –Noelita Lawrence photos

Noelita Lawrence

Former National League champions, Violet Kickers, will go in search of back-to-back wins when they oppose Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College in the lone game scheduled for later today, Monday, March 19, in the St. James Football Association Sandals/ATL Division One League at the UDC field.

Kickers who, prior to today, have managed just a solitary win, can inch to within a point of second placed Fire House should they claim all three points.

The encounter will be a mid-table clash and sees Sam Sharpe in third place, also in with a chance of moving up the standings should they table maximum points.
In the final series of games played on Thursday of last week, Fire House and Norwood Strikers share the points in a dull lacklustre 1-1 draw played at the UDC field.

After a listless opening 45 minutes between the teams, Chevon Graham sent a watered-down-looking Fire House ahead when he found the back of the net in the 49th minute, stuffing home from close range after getting on the end of a well-weighted cross.
However, in a contest bad for sore eyes, greatly lacking in football qualities, Norwood earned a share of the spoils through Raheem Davis who found the equalizer in the 76th minute.

FLANKER AGAIN

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The Mount Salem player who missed a crucial penalty for his school controls the ball despite a close watch being received from his Flanker opponent during their quarter final round match played at the Mount Salem Community field. Flanker won the game 1-0 to move through to the semi-finals set for Monday March 26.

Noelita Lawrence

For the second time of asking, Flanker booked their ticket to the semi-finals of the Noel King Under-12 Primary Schools Football Competition with a thrilling 1-0 quarter final round victory over Mount Salem at that school’s community field on Friday.

In what was a replayed game, following the infractions of the opening clash, Flanker, were again the better of the two and achieved the same result, a vital win, in booking their spot to the March 26 semi-final date with in-form Barracks Road Primary.

Troy Moore scored the all-important goal from the penalty spot for the Flanker team, netting from 12 yards out on the stroke of the halftime break.

Mount Salem had only themselves to blame as they too had the chance to get on the scoresheet, but their penalty was sensationally saved by the Flanker goalkeeper mere minutes before they fell behind.

The match had to be replayed after the first showdown was deemed null and void for Flanker’s use of 12-players for almost the entire first half of the first quarter final match.

Flanker had also won that match by a 3-2 margin.

Meanwhile, defending champions Corinaldi against Granville, in what is a repeat of last year’s championship game, is the other semi-final.

The final is set for Wednesday, March 28.

WILL THEY STAND ASIDE WHILE ANOTHER PLAYER IS BLACKBALLED BY THE NFL?

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Zaheer E. Clarke

Safety Eric Reid, who in 2016 was the first American football player to join former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in protesting racial inequality and systemic oppression by kneeling during the QUS national anthem, confirmed last week that he has received no offers from any NFL teams in the first few days of free agency.

By now, several players who are free agents have either re-signed with their old teams, signed with new teams, or have been taking visits from potential teams. However, Reid’s phone and that of his agent seemingly are in the midst of a nuclear winter.

Reid, who was selected to the pro bowl and the NFL All-Rookie team in 2013, expressed his belief on Thursday that NFL team owners – and not their general managers (GM) – are the core reason why he has not been able to sign a new deal.

“GMs aren’t the hold up [brother]. It’s ownership. People who know football know who can play. People who know me, know my character,” Reid remarked via Twitter last Thursday.

Reid, 26, is a versatile player and in 2017 he played not only at the safety position but also at free safety, strong safety and obviously out of position at the linebacker position. Whatever the team needed after several players went down with injuries or were cut, Reid was ready to provide in stellar fashion. Playing in 13 of the 16 regular season games for the 49ers in 2017, Reid led the team with two interceptions and had the third-most tackles at 66, with 52 of them unassisted.

In the five years since he has been with the 49ers, Reid ranks 11th among safeties in the league in the number of yards that interceptions were returned for, 20th in passes defended and 27th in unassisted tackles, though, playing in only 70 of the possible 80 games.

Interestingly, it seems his versatility and productivity on defence has not been the driving force in teams trying to acquire him in free agency. However, it seems Reid, like Kaepernick last season, is about to be blackballed by NFL teams for his stance in 2016 against social injustices when he knelt during the US national anthem.

Two years ago when Kaepernick started his protest, Kaepernick said, “If they take football away [and] my endorsements from me, [at least] I know that I stood up for what is right.”

Interestingly, so far, the owners in the NFL have taken football away from Kaepernick, who was ranked among the top-25 quarterbacks in the league in terms of fantasy points in 2016. Kaepernick went unsigned in 2017 and the prospects of his return in 2018, though he has an amazing arm and is a threat with his legs, is slim to none.

Towards the end of last year, Reid, the former Louisiana State University graduate, seemingly was mentally prepared for a similar outcome where football could be taken away from him.

“I would say I understand that’s a possibility and I’m completely fine with it,” Reid said then. “The things that I’ve done, I stand by, and I’ve done that for my own personal beliefs. Like I said, I’m fine with whatever outcome happens because of that.”

It was reported that before the 2017 season, Reid had come to a decision that he would return to standing during the anthem. However, after the supercharged racial tempestuousness in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August last year, he had a change of heart.

A few weeks after that racial unrest, US President Donald Trump, at a rally in Huntsville, Alabama, declared that NFL owners should fire athletes who engage in peaceful protests of kneeling or sitting during the national anthem. He referred to those athletes as the male offspring of female dogs and remarked that their protests were disrespectful to the American flag. In addition, he suggested that fans should walk out of NFL stadiums whenever the players protested.

Seeing the financial impact that Trump’s suggestions would have on the league and their teams, all the NFL owners and the commissioner joined the players in kneeling, sitting or holding hands during the national anthem to protest against Trump’s comments. Interestingly, it appears that the ostensibly hypocritical owners are once again in unison in keeping Kaepernick and now Reid, the progenitors of kneeling during the national anthem in protest, out of the league.

In 2017, as the protest by kneeling continued several weeks later after President Trump’s comments, a coalition of players met with NFL owners and league representatives to determine the way forward. Kaepernick was not invited initially to those meetings and after receiving an invitation later, he declined. Reid, who joined the coalition of players, later left after feeling that its leader, Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins had misled him about the objectives of the coalition.

Thereafter, the player’s coalition, the NFL owners and league representatives agreed that the league would donate $89 million over seven years to projects focused on criminal justice reform, law enforcement and community relations and education.

If Reid goes unsigned this season, and Kaepernick’s exile from the league by the owners continue, then the NFL ownership and by proxy the commissioner cannot deny the underhanded tactics of ending players’ careers who stood up for their rights and that of others.

Martin Luther King once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

King also said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

The silence of the star players in the league on these matters of blackballing players and the social injustices in the American community is earsplitting. They have chosen to sit in convenience than to take a controversial stance.

What is interesting to me is that 49ers Eli Harold will be a free agent after next season. Harold, a then second-year linebacker, had joined Kaepernick and Reid in kneeling during the national anthem for the entire 2016 season. The questions I am forced to ask are, “Will Harold be blackballed as well come 2019?” “Will the rest of the players in the league continue to remain silent about the injustices these players have suffered for their stancefor equal justice?”

Until next time.

 

CRH TO BE READY IN NOVEMBER – Tufton

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STRIPPED: Health Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton, gesticulates as he e explains that sections of the walls at the ninth floor of the Cornwall Regional Hospital were dug out to facilitate rehabilitation works ongoing at the multi-disciplinary health facility, to correct the faulty ventilation system and to improve general healthcare delivery. The Minister was on a tour of the facility on Fri-day. -Barrington Flemming Photo

Barrington Flemming
Staff Reporter

Health Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has listed the ambitious date of November 2018 for the completion of the mammoth rehabilitation and restoration project now underway at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay.

Minister Tufton made the announcement as he addressed a press conference on Friday following a tour of works at the multi-disciplinary facility. He said while the scope of work is great, he was confident that the deadline would be met.

“What we anticipate in the fourth quarter, meaning around November or so, is that the ventilation system would have been installed. This is the major system to support air quality in the building, which is the largest part of the rehabilitation and construction work.”

“So far, it has been designed. We have gone to tender to select a manufacturer of the system. They then have to build the system as it is not a shelf item and that will take a number of months and will also take some time to install,” he said.

Minister Tufton further explained that the ventilation system (HVAC) is the costliest component of project, with a price tag raging between 500 and 600 million dollars.

Quizzed about the government’s ability to fund the project, which now has a price tag of approximately 2 billion dollars, the Health Minister said the financing will have to be found.

“The preliminary estimate says 2 billion dollars and yes, we will have the resources to get it done. We cannot fail to do what is being done. It is a matter of how you prioritize and reallocate resources.  As of now, I have had no difficulty in terms of resources required, we have to account for what we spend, so the resources won’t be an obstacle,” Minister Tufton explained.

He advised that the boilers have been relocated from the basement to an area adjacent to the laundry and are to be re-commissioned, while a new building housing them is just about 30 percent complete.

CRACKS IN THE WALL

“When we removed the boilers. we discovered that there were some cracks in the wall with exposed steel, and this was made worse by the recent tremor on February 5. What we have done is to call in the National Works Agency engineers who did a preliminary examination and advised that we needed to do some more work to reinforce the base, again creating another scope of work, but that is now being done,” the Health Minister explained.

In the meantime, the eighth, ninth and tenth floors and the operating theatre on the fifth floor of the hospital have been stripped of all equipment, and windows and sections of the walls have been dug out and prepared for rehabilitative works to be undertaken. The 139 patients have all been relocated to the staff quadrants, which are now being expanded to accommodate 36 additional beds for relocation of other patients.

In addition, the Medical Records ward at the Falmouth General Hospital will be converted to an additional medicine ward  for 24 patients from Cornwall Regional Hospital and the surgical  ward  there, as well as the post operating area, will house 42 surgical patients as of March 19.

The Cornwall Regional Hospital has been battling resurgent air quality issues, fuelled by a malfunctioning ventilation system which was said to be contaminated by mould, with several health workers complaining of health issues related to the system.

 

Brothers die in accident

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The mangled remains of the ill-fated car in which the brothers were travelling

Two brothers died in a horrific four-vehicle collision on the Rose Hall main road in Montego Bay, St. James, last Thursday evening.

The brothers, who were both barbers working in the same barber shop on the Blue Diamond Plaza in Ironshore, have been identified as 25-year-old Kevon Mills, and 20-year-old Chadwick Robinson, both of Lilliput addresses in the parish. Mills reportedly would have celebrated his 26th birthday today, March 12, 2018.

Several other persons sustained injuries as a result of the accident.

According to information gleaned, both men were travelling in a grey Honda Civic motorcar along the Rose Hall main road in the direction of Lilliput, when on reaching the vicinity of Half Moon, the car reportedly got out of control and careened across the road, jumped the median and ended up in the path of an oncoming Toyota Hiace bus coming in the opposite direction, resulting in an impact that pinned both men in the car.

Another white Civic, which was travelling in the same direction as the brothers, also jumped the median, but luckily was stopped by a light pole. The single male that was travelling in that vehicle suffered injuries and was later transported to hospital.

The bus, after colliding with the Honda Civic, spun out of control and slammed into a Honda motorcar which was just behind it. Two persons travelling in the bus and the car were also taken to hospital.

The police, health response teams and the Fire Department, were called in and according to the team from the Ironshore Fire Station, both men had to be cut from the mangled wreck that the car had become. They further reported that they got the call about 7:47 p.m., and when they arrived on the scene, they found both men trapped in the vehicle. They quickly removed them using hydraulic equipment, but the wounds they suffered in the impact proved fatal.

The accident scene, which drew scores of curious onlookers, left persons traumatized as they cringed at the sight.

The incident also caused long delays for motorists as the extrication exercise and processing of the scene resulted in traffic being backed up from as far back as Ironshore in the west, to Barrett Town in the east.

 

Kevon Mills
Chadwick Robinson

DEAD WRONG

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Recoy Smith

Michael Nattoo – Staff Reporter

  • DNA to determine ownership of body

On December 18, 2017, as he stood at the gate to his house, 28-year-old Recoy ‘Bigga’ Smith was hit in the back by a stray bullet, which pierced right through his heart, killing the father of a 3-year-old son on the spot. Now, almost three months later, amidst their daily explanations to his son that daddy won’t ever be coming back home, Smith’s relatives have to face the possibility of not properly burying their loved one, as another family has claimed his body to be theirs, further delaying his funeral, which would have been on the 25th of this month.

Joan Lawrence, mother of the deceased, in an impassioned and emotional interview with the Western Mirror, begged to have her son’s body turned over to her so she could bury him on the designated date. “I have already suffered enough, so why, why do I have to wait this long for someone else to prove that he is my son? I have shown them everything! But still they are asking that I do a DNA test to prove that he is my son.”

Ms. Lawrence is referring to recent instructions given to her by heads in the JCF, that because another family had claimed Recoy’s body to be theirs, she would have to provide DNA evidence to legally lay claim to the body, despite the other family later coming forward to confess that they had made a mistake in their judgment, and had in fact found their deceased.

“I have all my son’s particulars – his clean police record, his birth certificate, pictures, everything, so I really don’t understand. The other family, who we met with, said they were wrong, and they made a mistake. They found their deceased relative, so I don’t get why they can’t let me have my son.”

WHERE THE CONFUSION BEGAN

When Recoy Smith was killed last year, Lawrence explained that she was called to the Cornwall Regional Hospital, where she was required to identify his body. After spending hours at the hospital and going through that most taxing ordeal, she returned to her home in Salt Spring, where she found the Investigating Officer waiting on her. “They were processing the crime scene, so he came to me,” Lawrence revealed, “and was asking me questions. I explained that I was his mother, and I gave him everything that he asked for.” Lawrence further explained that following her conversation with the officer, she was made aware that her son’s body had been transported to the Doyley’s Funeral Home, where it would have been kept, pending an autopsy.

Joan Lawrence (mother) and daughter, Francine Fletcher

Last week, however, when Lawrence, along with other family members, went to check on Recoy’s body at Doyley’s Funeral Home, the Investigating Officer revealed some startling news. “When I went there, I saw him, and he mentioned that he was going to check on something,” the sobbing Lawrence related to the Western Mirror newsroom. “He went inside and after a while of not coming out, I asked to speak to him.”

It was then, after requesting to speak to the officer, that she was told that they could not find her son’s body. “I started to curse and broke down in tears, because I couldn’t understand what they were telling me,” Lawrence said, “wah dem mean dem couldn’t find mi son body?”

Certain checks were made, according to Lawrence, which revealed that Doyley’s Funeral Home instead had an unidentified body, and that another corpse, which was claimed by another family, was transported to the Delapenha Funeral Home, where plans were well underway for its burial to be had, which would have been on the 4th of March, this past Sunday.

“I called my brother and asked him to go to the Delapenha Funeral Home to check to see if the body they had was his nephew, I wanted to know if it was Recoy,” the distraught mother explained. Within minutes, she added, her brother called back to confirm that the body at Delapenha’s was in fact Recoy’s, further evidenced by a tattoo of Recoy’s name, which was on his shoulder. Lawrence also learnt that her son’s body had been cut three weeks prior to her knowing, and without her consent. She also learnt of the plans that were set to have it buried.

DNA WOES

Fortunately, that crisis was averted for Lawrence and her family, who had met with the others who mistakenly claimed Smith as their own. The erring family confessed their misjudgment, and explained that the unidentified body at Doyley’s was in fact their own, and that it seemed to be a case of mistaken identity among the dead.

Bothering Lawrence and family now, however, is the reality that although that confession was done in the presence of the investigating officer, they still cannot get access to their relatives’ bodies for burial, as both families are now being required to do a DNA test to legally claim their dead.

“After all of that, how does this make any sense?” Lawrence said, questioning the relevance of the DNA test.

The Western Mirror subsequently reached out to members of the Crime Scene Investigation Unit of the JCF, on condition of anonymity, who explained why a DNA test in this instance would be relevant. “It usually isn’t relevant, but this case is different. Because of the confusion that happened initially, it is now prudent for all parties involved to have irrefutable evidence to their claims, to prevent any future mishap of that kind.”

DOYLEY’S SPEAKS

In clearing their name in the confusion, an Office Manager at Doyley’s Funeral Home, Ms. Chery Foster, explained that it was not within their responsibilities to identify the body at the initial stage, but that of the police. According to Foster, “As far as our responsibilities range from identification stage to the storage of the body, we did exactly as we were supposed to do.”

Now, as family and friends of Recoy Smith in the United States, who have already booked their tickets, prepare for his funeral on the 25th, his mother and other relatives know that it may not be possible to put him to rest any time soon.

 

Dittie Guise is dead

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Dittie Guise

Barrington Flemming

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One of the luminaries in Jamaica’s Tourism industry, Dittie Guise, General Manager of the Montego Bay Convention Centre, is dead.

Miss Guise, who was also first vice President of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, died early Tuesday morning at Hospiten, Montego Bay.

Miss Guise, who was ailing with cancer, returned to the island last week after receiving chemotherapy treatment overseas.  She is said to have fallen and hit her head whilst in her hotel room in the United States, and had been complaining of headaches since.

She was scheduled to attend a meeting of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association’s Marketing Committee last week, but complained of severe headaches and had to abort her plans to attend. She was taken instead to Hospiten, Montego Bay, where she was admitted.

Miss Guise has been instrumental in the start-up and growth of the Montego Bay Convention Centre since assuming the role of General Manager in April 2011.

She has held various senior roles within the hospitality industry. She was the Chief Operating Officer at the Pennsylvania Convention Centre Authority, General Manager at SMG-Greater Columbus Convention Centre and President/General Manager at Homkar Inc-Kansas City Market Centre. Educated in London, England, she holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and Fashion Merchandising.

Meanwhile, tributes are pouring in with the management and staff of the Montego Bay Convention Centre, expressing sadness at the passing of their pioneering and visionary leader.  During her tenure, the Montego Bay Convention Centre has enjoyed significant success, receiving several awards; chief among those are seven consecutive wins at the World Travel Awards for the Caribbean’s Leading Meetings and Conference Centre.

The Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, while expressing deep sorrow at her passing, hailed Miss Guise for having served the city of Montego Bay and the Chamber with distinction, purpose and conviction.

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, in his tribute said:  “The tourism family today mourns the loss of a really outstanding public servant, conference organiser and indeed one of the finest convention centre administrators in these parts.”

He also lauded Guise’s contribution to the success of the UNWTO, Government of Jamaica and World Bank Group Conference on Jobs and Inclusive Growth: Partnerships for Sustainable Tourism, which was held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre last November.

 

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