Sunday, December 16, 2019

THE GLEANER, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2019 | www.jamaica-gleaner.com | NEWS A2 6:00 p.m. Football Review 9 a.m.: Hotline Clive Mullings 5 p.m.: Beyond The Headlines: News: Dadrian Gordon Discussion: Dionne Jackson Miller 8 p.m.: The Night Cap with Donovan Dacres 7 a.m.: Morning Agenda with Jodi-Ann Quarrie & Danielle Archer 10 a.m.: Power Talk with Ronnie Thwaites 2 p.m.: Both Sides of the Story with Dervan Malcolm 9 a.m.: Daydream 1 p.m.: Ovadrive 5 p.m.: Rush Hour WATCH TODAY TUNE IN TODAY 6 a.m.: Blast-Off 10 a.m.: Rock Away Show 5 p.m.: Sports Grill 10 a.m.: Soul Café 2 p.m.: Chill Zone 6 p.m.: Cruzing 6:00 a.m. : Smile Jamaica Glenmuir with Neville Bell and Simone Clarke Cooper Romario Scott/Gleaner Writer THE LATE former president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Beverley Lopez, was hailed on Saturday as a woman of principle who loved her country. Lopez, who was laid to rest on Saturday, died at her home on November 24. Scores of family, friends, and former private-sector colleagues turned out to pay their last respects at the Stella Maris Roman Catholic Church in St Andrew. “I met her when therewas theOutameni issue ... somewhere in that time. She and some others were standing in protest of the sale and at the time I did not know that,” Lloyd Gilling, who was present at the funeral, recalled. “So I see this little, short lady. At the time, she seemed most approachable and I asked, ‘What is the problem?’ She looked at me and said, ‘Come, we have a problem in the country. You don’t see they feel they can do what they feel like with taxpayers’ money without no accountability?’”he recounted. He said that he remembered vividly Lopez saying,“No, man, we have to stand for something. It is all of us who are in this, andwhen the country suffer, it is we who ultimately suffer.” This, Gilling said, summed up what Lopez represented as a“Jamaican patriot”. “I will never forget her. Learning of her passing made me so sad,” he told The Gleaner . The daughters of Lopez, Tayana Wong and Megan Wong, wept openly and consoled each other as speaker after speaker told of the strength and determination of their mother while she was alive. As president of the PSOJ, in 2005, Lopez led the resounding call for politicians to publicly sever ties with criminal associates, and dismantle their garrisons, delivering a three-week ultimatum to political representatives that they faced the possibility of being voted out of office. Lopez was a graduate of the Alpha Academy and was born in Montego Bay, St James. Lopez headed the PSOJ from 2003 to 2006. In 2002, she was honoured with the Order of Distinction, Commander class, and was conferred with the Order of Jamaica in 2006. ‘Beverley Lopez lived her life on principle’ The Most Reverend Kenneth Richards, Archbishop of Kingston, walks with the censer around the coffin bearing the body of Beverley Lopez during the funeral held at the Stella Maris Roman Catholic Church on Saturday. KENYON HEMANS/PHOTOGRAPHER Private sector giant laid to rest Shanna Monteith/ Gleaner Writer S TILL BASKING in the phenomenal victory pulled off by a daughter of St Thomas in the oldest- running international beauty pageant, residents of the rural community of Bath from where Toni-Ann Singh hails are welcoming her crowning as MissWorld as their 2019 Christmas gift. Congregating at a bar in Bath, residents admitted that although they did not know the queen personally, they were thrilled by her accomplishment and saw it as a win not only for Jamaica, but for the parish and their community. “It’s overwhelming fi know seh, yes, we did it again.Yuh si howPopcaan (dancehall deejay, singer, songwriter) run the road straight and mek everybody know bout up here? A bay (pure) proudness, man, and many more a forward out a this community, too, ‘cause a suh we do it. Popcaan a do it and now we have Miss World, so you know seh Bath, St Thomas, full a whole heap a talent,” one resident said. Another, who gave his name as Leon, chimed in:“We have joy in a wi heart, man. Wi feel good, yuh know, praises ... . We give a clap. Dis come een like a we Christmas present – Miss World come from Bath!” Neatly tucked away on Fountain Road in the community is the family home of Toni-Ann Singh, where the 23-year-old international beauty spent most of her earlier years. FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY In animated conversations, a proud Theodore Bailey, the uncle of Singh, shared the good news with friends and other family members and also received congratulatory messages as he struggled to keep up with the flood of calls coming in about his niece’s achievement. “As a toddler growing up, she would always tell us that she is going to be Miss World and Miss Jamaica. And fi see the manifestation come now and that the world has to look up to mi niece and even a community like Bath in St Thomas yah, mi feel real good, man,” Bailey told The Gleaner . “Words can’t even express my feelings right now, trust me. We a come from far and Toni-Ann always tell wi she is going to be the Joseph of this family. So even now it come in like is a dream come true or something ... is like it’s a fulfilment of prophecy,” Bailey said with pride. He said that with St Thomas often seen as“the lost parish”in Jamaica, it was significant that a young woman could rise from a small rural community to be crowned Miss World. “This is a big thing for us,” he insisted. Describing his niece as God-fearing, charitable, caring, and loving, Bailey concluded that the world received a“good one” from St Thomas. Calling Singh a real family girl, Bailey said that every year, his niece organises a Christmas get-together for the family where gifts are exchanged. “She always a do it and she seh whether she win or not, she a do it this year. We meet up as family and sing and eat and share. She’s a person that loves to keep the family together and that a fi har dream. “World – when it comes on to beauty with a purpose, she is the right one – unuh mek a good choice,” he said. Singh’s uncle also lauded her exceptional talent as he noted that the gift runs in the family. “Toni-Ann is a great singer, you know. See how she mash up the place? Yeah, man, is a family thing,‘cause a Prince Theo a my artiste name. “Many people seh mi shuda buss or mek it with the talent weh mi have, and see it here now ... . Toni-Ann do it fi all a we and she do it big!”Bailey exclaimed of his history-making niece, who is now listed as the fourth Jamaican to be crowned Miss World behind Carole Crawford in 1963, Cindy Breakspeare in 1976, and Lisa Hanna in 1993. editorial@gleanerjm.com ‘Our Christmas gift’ Winner of Miss World 2019, Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica, poses for photographers at the 69th annual Miss World competition at the Excel centre in London Saturday. AP Theodore Bailey, uncle of Toni-Ann Singh. PHOTO BY HANNA MONTEITH’S Bath residents relish Toni-Ann’s crowning as early present for the season ‘Words can’t even express my feelings right now, trust me. We a come from far and Toni-Ann always tell wi she is going to be the Joseph of this family. 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