Denham Town Bids Goodbye To Irreplaceable Tassanique.....Residents of Denham Town take a final look at 11-year-old Tassanique James, outside the home she once lived, before a thanksgiving service held at the Regent Street Seventh-day Adventist Church, Denham Town, west Kingston yesterday. Young James was shot in her community last month by gunmen.

Residents of west Kingston, particularly Denham Town, say the Clan Carthy Primary School student, who was gunned down on Emancipation Day, will not readily be forgotten.

Scores attended her funeral yesterday and lamented the extinguishing of a life that held much promise.

There was regret at the grade six desk she never got to use; the high school and university she would never attend; and the profession she would not get to pursue.

Member of Parliament Desmond McKenzie bemoaned that Tassanique "could have gone on to be another great person coming out of the constituency." read more...