US-Jamaican group starts accident victims fund

Harold Bailey

Friday, February 03, 2012

NEW YORK, USA -- A non-profit group run by Jamaican nationals from the St Catherine community of Spring Village, has launched a fund here to assist with the victims of the January 4 accident which claimed the lives of four members of a family with connection to that community.

The fund was launched by the Spring Village Association at a memorial service in The Bronx on Sunday.

Secretary of the association Dorett Bryan said that those killed in the accident "were either from, or had a connection with Spring Village".

She said that it is customary for the association to provide assistance to the community, adding that "doing so at this time of tragedy resonates with our core values".

Marie Myrie-Smith, her son Garino Dixon, his wife Diana, and their son Nickeil, aged two, perished in the accident along the Old Harbour Main Road.

The Dixons and their son were visiting from Canada where the Spring Village Association has a chapter.

The association, which over the years has provided assistance in education and health care for residents of the community, also operates a chapter in the United Kingdom.

-- Harold Bailey