The People's National Party's (PNP) Portland Group is joined by PNP parliamentarian Mikael Phillips (left) and Opposition Senator Damion Crawford (second left) as they paytribute to Dr Lynvale Bloomfield.
February 25, 2019
Saying goodbye to Bloomfield
Hundreds of Jamaicans paid their last respects to slain Portland Eastern Member of Parliament Lynvale Bloomfield at Open Bible Church in Port Antonio on Saturday.
Observer correspondent EVERARD OWEN covered the funeral service and filed these photos.
Shafae Bloomfieldperforms JesusKnows in tribute toher late uncle.
Pall-bearers take the casket with the body of Dr Lynvale Bloomfield from the church after the funeral service.
Despite the grief of losing Dr Bloomfield, fond memories of the MP bring smiles to thefaces of the congregation.
Former Prime Minister and People’s National PartyPresident Portia Simpson Miller arrives for the funeralservice.
Dr Bloomfield’s cousin Steve Powell (left) joins his fellow Cornwall College Old Boys(from second left) Lloyd Parchment, Barry Morgan, and Dwight Lawson in payingtribute to Dr Bloomfield, a past student of Cornwall College.
Steve Powell delivers anemotional performanceof Beulah Land in tributeto his cousin Dr LynvaleBloomfield at Saturday’sfuneral service.
Deloris McDonald (right) and her friends peruse the funeral programme outside thechurch.
Dr Sharon Earle-Edwards and fellow doctors who were in the same group that studied medicine in Cuba with Dr Bloomfield delivers a tribute. At left is Dr Donald Rhodd, whoalso studied in Cuba and was Member of Parliament for Portland Eastern.
Members of Dr Lynvale Bloomfield’s family laugh as one of the comical moments ofhis life is shared with the congregation.
