On Saturday at St. John's Anglican cathedral an official funeral was held for Ambassador Bert Tucker. He died three and a half weeks ago in Jamaica form complications of prostate cancer. His friends remembered him fondly:..
Norman Fairweather, Tucker's friend
"He modeled what a servant leader does, it's a very hard road, it is not easy. But I say to you today lets shine a light where he has open a window - shine a light there. Do not cover our eyes because we've been in darkness for a long time."
Godwin Hulse, Tucker's friend
"He saw man not divided, but united. Sighting in another of his writings "the journey of the great African tribes brought here by colonial masters but though physically separated from ancestors and love ones still connected as the great Zambezi River flowed across the seas and fused with the magnificent Belize River - a route he dubbed, not La Ruta Maya, but la ruta humana."
His body was laid to rest at Homeland memorial with a BDF gun salute.
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