By Balford Henry From Jamaica Observer

Former Colonel of the Moore Town (Nanny Town) Maroon community, CLG Harris, who died on May 23, days after celebrating his 100th birthday, is to be buried on July 8 in his hometown in Portland.

Harris will be buried at Nanny Bump, where Nanny, Jamaica’s only national heroine, was buried, after funeral rites at the Paul’s Anglican Church in Moore Town

A number of leading Parliamentarians — including Cabinet ministers Olivia “Babsy” Grange, Robert Montague and Daryl Vaz, as well as opposition People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Julian Robinson, whose father is from Moore Town — are scheduled to attend the service.

Maroon colonels from Charles Town, Scots Hall and Accompong will also be attending, and current leader of the Moore Town community, Colonel Wallace Sterling, will speak on behalf of the host community.

Colonel Harris’ grand-daughter, Chemieka Harris, a nurse currently based in the Cayman Islands, told the Jamaica Observer yesterday that the funeral had been delayed from the original date of June 18 in order to accommodate a number of people, including past students of Colonel Harris, who wanted to attend.

The Ministry of Culture, Entertainment, Gender and Sports, which is headed by Grange, and which has been assisting with the preparations, says that so many tributes are expected that some will have to be printed and circulated with the programme in order to fit in at the funeral service.

A committee comprised of family members — York and Lawrence Harris, sons, and grand-daughter Frederika Smith, Colonel Sterling, former Principal of Moore Town Primary School, Renford Grant, and other members of the community — has been collaborating with the ministry in planning the funeral.

IMAGE: HARRIS… died on May 23, days after celebrating his 100th birthday

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