MAHOE BAY, St James – The Sandals Royal Caribbean family, in particular those employed to the entertainment department, are still grieving after a tragic motor vehicle collision along the Orange Bay Main Road in Hanover Sunday afternoon left two playmakers dead.

The two – 19-year-old Akerie Christie of Neptune Avenue, Kingston 17, and 24-year-old Jacqueline Jacques of Savannah District, Hayes, Clarendon – were remembered by their former co-workers as ‘bubbly and cheerful individuals’.

Christie, who won the ‘Personality of the Year’ award at the hotel’s most recent staff awards, had been employed to the resort for nearly three years along with Jacques, who worked there for almost two. They had only just left another Sandals property in Negril when the accident occurred.

The sudden death of the two completely devastated their department’s boss, Janice Walters.

Said Walters: “Akerie and Jackie were two of my senior staff members; I could rely on them in taking on just about anything if the supervisor was not around to come up with ideas for their activities. Very, very outgoing, easy to get along with, they were loved by many persons of this resort.”

According to the police, Jacques was a passenger in a Toyota Corolla motor car driven by her colleague. The car, which was heading towards Montego Bay, collided head-on with a Hino bus, driven by 47-year-old Bunny Grant of Green Island, Hanover, which was travelling in the opposite direction.

The two Sandals workers died on the spot.

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