An emotional Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller this afternoon led a delegation to the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston as the body of the late Agriculture Minister, Roger Clarke, arrived in Jamaica.
Mr. Clarke’s body was flown home on an American Airlines plane.
Just after noon today, personnel from the Jamaica Constabulary Force received Mr. Clarke’s casket which was draped in the national flag.
Mrs. Simpson Miller was joined at the airport today by several Cabinet Ministers, former Prime Minister PJ Patterson and Mr. Clarke’s widow, Sonia.
West Portland MP, the Jamaica Labour Party’s, Daryl Vaz, was also in attendance.
Addressing the House of Representatives yesterday, Vaz thanked Mr. Clarke’s family for asking him to be a pall bearer at the funeral of the late Minister which will take place on Saturday.
Daryl Vaz, Member of Parliament for West Portland.
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