Former Deputy Prime Minister Seymour St Edward 'Foggy' Mullings, OJ, was laid to rest on the grounds of the St Matthew Anglican Church, in Claremont, St Ann today. Mullings, who died on October 9, at age 82, was given a state funeral as a mark of respect for his decades of service to the nation. Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, in whose cabinet Mullings spent several years read the tribute.
Patterson read:
“Seymour Mullings was truly one of a kind. His sound upbringing and kind temperament made him uniquely fitted for the time and space which he occupied in Jamaica’s political history.
“He entered the field of national representation when partisan rivalry at the constituency and national levels had become highly charged, divisive and potentially destructive of our earlier traditions. “His personal approach devoid of bombast, triumphalism or vindictiveness set the stage for the early restoration of the civility and tranquillity which had been characteristic of South Eastern St Ann. read more
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