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Maureen Brathwaite and her son’s friend Rohan placing a memorial plaque on the spot where her son Rashaun Brathwaite died on July 11, 2020, after being electrocuted while picking breadfruits. - (Picture by Maria Bradshaw.) Social Share
A year after her son was electrocuted while picking breadfruits, Maureen Brathwaite is still feeling the pain of that loss.
On the anniversary of Rashaun’s death on July 11, she held a memorial service last week Sunday and erected a plaque where he died in their Apes Hill, Baywoods, St James district.
Speaking to the
DAILY NATION next to the breadfruit tree where he lost his life, the mother of seven said she could still remember all the details of that fateful day when Rashaun was summoned by his friend, Rohan, to pick breadfruits for Rohan’s elderly mother.
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The Horatio Cooke Complex at the headquarters of the National Union of Public Workers. (Picture by Maria Bradshaw) Social Share
It appears that deliberations could go well into the night as arguments for and against an injunction brought by suspended president of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) were heard.
It is now up to Justice Cecil McCarthy to render his verdict.
Hanging in the balance is tomorrow’s elections for the NUPW as McDowall is seeking to have his suspension set aside and the elections postponed by two weeks in order to give him an opportunity to prepare to contest a third term in office.
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