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FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 05, 2018
VOLUME 112, No.40
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BRAKES FAILURE
BLAMED FOR ACCIDENT
years old, died on the spot after the jeep in which they were EZRA POMPEY, the driver of the Suzuki travelling, went over an Escudo (jeep) that was involved in a fatal embankment and fell hundreds accident in Gordon Yard, North Leeward, of feet down a precipice, September 30, has deemed the major between Belle Isle and Gordon contributing reason for the accident as Yard. “brakes failure.” Ezra, 35-year-old father of Archbishop Frank Simon, one of two Last Sunday, Laverne Pompeytwo and nephew of Laverne, and the fatalities, would be mourned by the Young, a 50-year-old mother of two from other passenger Philmena Tittle, an Spiritual Baptist Diocese of SVG. Chapmans, and Spiritual Baptist employee with Randy’s Supermarket, Archbishop, Rt. Rev. Frank Simon, 60 survived. In an interview with THE Left: Ezra Pompey, driver of the VINCENTIAN on Tuesday from his vehicle, is convinced about what caused the accident. Continued on Page 3. Stories by KENVILLE HORNE
CHAPMANS FAMILY MOURNS
Everette Young, the only son of Laverne Young, was up to Tuesday, trying to come to terms with the circumstances surrounding his mother’s death.
WHEN EVERETTE YOUNG’S mother left their Chapmans home last Sunday, September 30th, for a function in North Leeward, he expected she would return as she always did. This was not to be. Everette’s mother — Laverne Pompey-Young — did not return as expected and sadly, will never return. Laverne Pompey-Young, a 50-yearold-mother of two from Chapmans, and Rt. Rev. Frank Simon, 60-yearold Cane End resident and Archbishop of the Spiritual Baptist Archdiocese of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, died on the spot when the Suzuki Escudo P4570 in which they were travelling to a Spiritual Baptist function in Chateaubelair, skidded off the road and plunged down a precipice in the Gordon Yard area, just on the outskirts of Cumberland/Sprig Village. The driver and another passenger
survived and were rushed to the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital. Everette told THE VINCENTIAN on Tuesday that before she left home that Sunday, his mother gave him some cooking instructions. He recalled that she was picked up by a Suzuki Escudo, driven by her nephew Ezra Pompey of Lowmans Windward. Archbishop Simon and Philmena Tittle joined them later. The grieving son said that it was his girlfriend, residing in Antigua, who first called him and told him that she had just heard his mom was killed in an accident, after a van went over a cliff in Gordon Yard. He dismissed this, since he knew that his mother was not travelling in a van. “So me tell she that na true,” said Everette. After some quick reflection, he called the driver’s cell phone. No answer. Continued on Page 3.
Laverne Pompey-Young was an active member of the Spiritual Baptists of SVG, who, her colleagues said, was on a mission for the Lord.