FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 16, 2016
VOLUME 110, No.49
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ÂBERTÊ: „ÂCRABÊ MAY HAVE STILL BEEN ALIVE‰
by HAYDN HUGGINS
upper floor of a wooden two-storey building located in an area known as ‘The Hole’, at Rose Place. The area is ‘home’ to a number of small, dilapidated houses.
ATELBERT ‘BERT’ NANTON, who described the late Jasmond ‘Crab’ Charles-Huskinson as his “soldier,” believes that his close friend would have still been alive, had he complied with his (Bert) request, shortly before he died. ‘Bert’ told THE VINCENTIAN on Wednesday, that moments before the incident which resulted Continued on in ‘Crab’s’ death, he had asked Page 3. him to buy a cigarette and a wrapping paper so that they could smoke a marijuana cigarette, but ‘Crab’ refused to go. The 62-year-old labourer died around 7 p.m. on Monday, after reportedly receiving what appeared to be a stab wound to the chest and other abrasions to the body, following an altercation on the Atelbert ‘Bert’ Nanton described ‘Crab’ as his ‘soldier.’
Jasmond ‘Crab’ CharlesHuskinson, became this country’s 35th homicide victim for 2016. Below: The open stairway down which ‘Crab’ fell.
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SENIOR CITIZEN REMEMBERS ‘CRAB’ by KENVILLE HORNE JASMOND CHARLES— HUSKINSON, aka ‘Crab’, a popular figure in the Rose Place community, died on Monday 12th December, 2016, succumbing to a stab wound reportedly received during an altercation he had with Shirley Lynch, two women. considered by some to The incident took be the matriarch of the place at Rose Place Rose Place community, where ‘Crab’ and the remembers Jasmond women shared Charles–Hutchinson, quarters, according to aka ‘Crab’, as an reports. intelligent man. ‘Crab’ was pronounced dead on his arrival at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital. ‘Crab’, for all his shortcoming, was, it seemed, well-liked by many persons in the Rose Place community. And for one stalwart member of that community, Ms. Shirley Lynch, he stood out “because of his intelligence.” Lynch, a former Justice of Peace, told THE VINCENTIAN on Wednesday, “He (‘Crab’) was very intelligent. - the way he talked and the way he looked at things. You could sit and discuss anything with him. He was too intelligent sometimes, in certain things.” Unprompted, the senior citizen, whose association with ‘Crab’ spanned three decades or more, continued, “Sometimes I would make noise with him and say, ‘You’re so intelligent. Why don’t you look for a good job? He would just watch me.” She recalled that he was a vibrant supporter of the Unity Labour Party, and would often defend his party. “But if he wanted any advice or anything, he would come to me,” said Lynch. Continued on Page 3.