Canada-based reggae and dancehall songbird Phenique hopes that her new anti-violence single,
Another Coffin, will lead to an end to the bloodshed in Jamaica.
The sexy vocalist has been perturbed by the numerous grisly reports of violence and murder which often dominate the headlines in Jamaica.
“I love watching the news, whether it is news from Canada, Jamaica, or the US, but lately, the news from Jamaica has been so brutal and shocking…sometimes I am scared for my Jamaican people,” the artiste whose real name is Shanique Phoenix, said.
“I am tired of the daily reports of senseless violence, and the negativity. That’s why with Another Coffin, I put myself in my people’s shoes…I can’t imagine the pain of someone who has lost their mother, father or child, but I wrote this song so people could relate because everyone has suffered loss,” she said.
Relatives and friends watched helplessly the heart-rending display of grief by Christopher McFarlane on Sunday as he lay face down between the coffins of his two murdered children, with his own mother to his left.
As the family bade their final goodbyes to 81-year-old Icyline McFarlane and her two granddaughters, Christina, 10, and Michayne, six, Mr McFarlane remained prostrate at the flower-laden cream-coloured coffins, almost appearing to will them from death into the land of the living.
The pain was palpable, with a local government official using the funeral to charge the Jamaican society to hunt down the killers and bring them to justice.
Christopher McFarlane was beside himself with grief yesterday as he lay face down between the coffins of his two murdered children, with his own mother to his left. Mourners said goodbye to 81-year-old Icyline McFarlane and her two granddaughters, Christina, 10, and Michayne, six, who were murdered in a home invasion in Tryall Heights on Sunday, November 22. Sources report that the senior citizen was made to kneel and was shot dead before the killers trained their weapons on Christina and Michayne. Sunday’s ceremony at Perry’s Funeral Home in Spanish Town, St Catherine, was awash with grief as mourners recalled the triple tragedy.