NEWSPAPER vendors in Montego Bay are mourning the death of Winston Campbell, popularly called Bunny or Amin, who died at home earlier this week.

Campbell, who sold newspapers for the past 25 years, was an ardent supporter of stage shows. Hours before his death, he was in Nine Miles, St Ann where he enjoyed the celebrations staged to mark Bob Marley’s birthday.

According to Jennifer Myers, his common-law wife of more than 16 years, they both went to bed at around 10:00 am on Sunday, slept until 3:00 pm, showered and had a meal, and then Campbell went for a walk.

Myers said she received a call sometime after. It was Campbell, telling her that he wanted to go to the doctor because his chest was hurting.

“Him come back and I fix him a cup of ginger tea and add a little pepper mint. After him drink it, him vomit,” said the distraught Myers.

A taxi was summoned for the ailing man.

“Bunny walk strong, strong to the car. When we went inside, him hug mi and squeeze me tight, tight. When we reach Doctors Hospital at Fairfield, de doctor say him dead,” she recalled. “From Sunday mi no eat, I can’t come to it seh Bunny dead.”

To make matters worse, his family has since relieved Myers of all of her former husband’s possessions.

“Even de chain whe him put round me neck, dem tek wey. Mi no have nuttin to show, dem teck everyting and say a mi poison him,” Myers said with a trembling voice.

At the time of his death Campbell was a vendor for the Jamaica Observer, the Gleaner and a contractor at the Western Mirror.

Those with whom he worked over the years remember him as hard working and dependable. He was well respected in his community, and helped many community youth with their school fees.