Grange regrets the passing of former Maroon leader Noel Prehay
KINGSTON, November 30 — Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange has noted with sadness the passing of former Scotts Hall Maroon Colonel, Noel Prehay.
Grange said that Colonel Prehay will be remembered for his call on the British Government to pay what he said was Britain’s two centuries-old debt to the Maroons.
“We recall Colonel Prehay declaring that all Maroons should come together to make representation to the British Government to honour the debt, which resulted from commitments made by Britain in the treaty that ended its war with the Maroons in 1738.”
Grange said Prehay, who was colonel for 33 years and the longest serving leader of the Windward Maroons, had steadily maintained the tradition of the solid leadership for which his predecessors and compatriots had come to be known.
The minister expressed condolences to Prehay’s widow, his children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and to Colonel Pink the current colonel and people of Scott’s Hall.
