BY DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Sunday Observer staff reporter husseyd@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, April 20, 2014
NOT only does she possess a sharp memory, but at 104, Adlyn Imogene Barnes Thompson's quick wit was evident as she recalled how she met her child's father, getting 'saved' 80 years ago, even while giving her account of what she believes is the only thing that can take Jamaica out of the situation it is now in.
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| Adlyn Thompson speaks about her relationship with the Lord and what Jamaica needs today. |
"The condition that we are into right now in Jamaica, is only God can change it," a pensive Thompson said as she sat on her verandah in her Mt Oliphant district home in South Manchester on Friday.
"I see no other way. The prime minister is saying she is trying her best. But she can't do it. It take the spirit and the power of God to change the condition," she said.
She recalled that as a youngster growing up in Mt Oliphant with both parents, three brothers and three sisters, how strangers would pass through the district from St Elizabeth and Old Harbour selling tobacco, cloth and hats and when they were tired they would enter anyone's home and spend the rest of the night, as no one was concerned about being murdered or robbed by these strangers.
"They stayed until they were ready to leave and householders did not concern themselves that they would be harmed or robbed. Those higglers would be on the road for days until their goods were sold off before going back home, and every night they stayed at a different home in another district and nobody would trouble them," the centenarian said.
Thompson, who celebrated her 104th birthday on April 10, said that men now take pleasure in committing murders and do so for no apparent reason. more
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