MONTEGO BAY, St James – Clinton Dietrich, the late Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker for North West Manchester and councillor for the Johns Hall division, who was killed in a motor vehicle accident three weeks ago, will be laid to rest today.

Opposition leader Bruce Golding and a number of JLP officials, including general secretary Karl Samuda and party chairman Dr Kenneth Baugh, are expected to be among the hundreds of mourners at the funeral service to be held at the Nazareth Moravian Church, Maidstone, Manchester.

“The body will be at the church from about 9 o’clock for viewing and the thanksgiving service will start at 11:00 am,” said a JLP official yesterday.

Golding, the official added, will pay a tribute to the deceased while opposition spokesman on finance and MP for North East Manchester Audley Shaw, will read a lesson.

A donation will be taken in aid of the Clinton Dietrich Scholarship Fund.

Interment will follow in the Nazareth Moravian Church cemetery.

Dietrich, 60, who lived at Ward Avenue in Manchester, was among five people killed in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Winston Jones Highway and Mike Town Road in that parish on the morning of April 28.