PM to attend grand ‘set-up’ for Juppie
SPICY HILL, Trelawny -Prime Minister Bruce Golding and several officials of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will journey to this rural community tomorrow night for a special ‘wake’ in honour of the late deputy mayor of Falmouth and JLP councillor, Errol “Juppie” White.
White died two weeks ago after a prolonged battle with cancer.
He will be laid to rest on November 28.
Dubbed the “Council’s Nite’ the ‘wake’ which is being hosted by the Trelawny Parish Council will be held at the Whites’ residence.
Organisers have set a budget of roughly $250,000, comprising contributions from members of parliament in the parish, councillors and local businessmen for the staging of the event.
” The event will be a grand affair. We will have food, singing, music……. and we expect to go on all night,” mayor of Falmouth Colin Gager told the Observer West.
He added that a number of councillors from across the island are also expected to attend the ‘nine night’.
Meanwhile, councillors and Heads of Department at the Trelawny Parish Council last Thursday paid glowing tributes to the late deputy mayor during the regular monthly meeting of that local authority.
Gager described his former deputy as a patriotic, honest and exceptional councillor.
He said councillor White’s life as a politician and businessman was truly monumental.
According to Mayor Gager, White brought respect and honour to the local body during the last year and a half that he served.
“I could always rely on councillor White for his guidance in our deliberations at the Council, his thinking was never mired in politics, he was fair to all and he believed that the people’s interests should always come first above party,” Gager noted.
Gager argued that the late councillor was a very humble individual who spent most of his time advocating for workers at the Parish Council and the people in his division.
“He always wanted to ensure that the workers’ rights were protected,” he said.
For his part, minority leader at the council Phillip Service (PNP) described the late councillor White, who served as a councillor for 19 consecutive years, as a doyen of the local government authority.
Councillor Service said the late councillor was fair and fearless and was “a man of the people and a man for the people”.
Gerald Lee, the council’s secretary /manager, remembered White as “a true role model for the other councillors and staff” at the local authority.
