Search for Bunny Wailer’s wife continues after one year | Entertainment

Even as the spouse and children of the late Bunny Wailer proceeds to make suitable programs for his funeral, they paused on Monday to mark 1 year considering that Saturday, May possibly 23, 2020, a working day that has more issues than responses. It was on that fateful working day that Jean ‘Sis Jean’ Watt, Bunny Wailer’s spouse of above fifty a long time, went lacking from the spouse and children household in Washington Gardens, St Andrew.

“It has been a tricky time for my siblings and I as we test to cope with the decline of our father who took the harmful decline of his associate of above fifty a long time more challenging than anybody,” Abijah Livingston, the son of Bunny Wailer, told The Sunday Gleaner.

“As we target on the preparing of our beloved father’s ship-off, we are nevertheless refusing to give up our look for for his spouse and have continued the investigation of her disappearance. We know our father would want an honourable funeral, but he would also urge us to continue the look for for his spouse, Jean Watt,” the reggae singer stated.

Abijah also tackled a problem that is currently on everyone’s lips – the date of the funeral for the last member of the iconic Wailers trio, Neville Livingston, also acknowledged as Bunny Wailer and Jah B. He handed absent on March two.

“The funeral planning has been positively progressing, and we will make an announcement of the date quickly,” he mentioned decisively.

Whilst Sister Jean has been lacking for 1 year, the spouse and children continues to be pretty hopeful that she will be discovered. The look for has been relentless and islandwide, with a reward of 1 million dollars on provide, the selecting of non-public investigators, and the earning of a 30-minute documentary.

“We have to maintain the consciousness of Sis Jean likely. A whole lot has been likely on, but we have to maintain her look for at the forefront for the reason that discovering her will undoubtedly assistance our spouse and children to mend,” Abijah additional. “We’ve been all above the island placing up posters and responding to sightings. The media and persons on social media have significantly assisted us with our look for, but, as time goes by, we have to test other steps to maintain her at the forefront.”

Sis Jean was a youthful 70-year-outdated when she went lacking last May possibly. Her birthday came 4 months afterwards, on September 23, and at that time, the spouse and children wrote on social media, “As we are nevertheless lacking our Queen Mom, the spouse and children is nevertheless retaining the consciousness likely. We rejoice her birthday with some clippings from the forthcoming element that focuses also on mental health issues and how we as a local community take care of our mentally challenged.”

Abijah, who has been the formal spokesperson for the spouse and children considering that Sister Jean’s disappearance, was instrumental in the earning of the documentary WailNSoul Exploring for Sis Jean. It was launched in recognition of Intercontinental Women’s Day and focused on mental wellbeing problems and lacking ladies in basic, as Sister Jean has dementia, a issue that leads to memory decline.

The documentary sees a host of relations, which include her sister, nieces and nephews, her stepchildren, all singing the praises of Jean Audrey Watt, and pleading for her harmless return. There are also interviews with Minister of Tradition, Gender, Leisure and Sport Olivia Grange professor of general public wellbeing and ageing at The College of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr Denise Eldemire-Shearer senior superintendent of police and head of the Constabulary Communications Device Stephanie Lindsay and Lloyd Dean, father of lacking UWI scholar, Jasmine Dean.

In the documentary, Sis Jean’s sister, Pauline Watt, recollects with some measure of pride that she was the “news carrier” who would take messages from a youthful Bunny Wailer to her sister. “Me was the set on. Him see me and seh him like mi sister. All dem moments deh, Jean quite and a go Denham Town university. The time when she meet him, Bunny dem was living in the kitchen. She and Bunny and Bob Marley spouse inna the minor kitchen and Georgie a cook the cornmeal porridge, him mild fireplace from 6 to 6. Jean nuh come a road. She mature good. When Bunny dem a go perform soccer him inform me ‘tell Jean fi come’. And think you me, me neva know seh men and women woulda come inna dem everyday living and mash it up like that,” Pauline stated.

The couple met in Trench Town as youngsters, and Watt, who is a dressmaker by profession, has been by means of every single sizeable episode of Bunny Wailer’s everyday living. She is an early good friend of Rita Marley, widow of Wailer Bob Marley, and, as youngsters, they have been a duo couple of Bob and Rita and Bunny and Jean. Bunny Wailer’s previous supervisor, Maxine Stowe, in an job interview with The Gleaner last year, shared, “Especially for the duration of his time in jail, he [Bunny Wailer] remembers her as his rock of interaction. She ran facet by facet with him on the beach front of Bull Bay, exactly where again Bob and Rita have been portion of that time in the local community. Sis Jean built a whole lot of outfits for The Wailers, especially their trademark vests, and she was Jah B’s main designer by means of his Solomonic a long time.”

Stowe was living at the Washington Gardens home at the time and was at the residence just in advance of Sister Jean wandered absent. Hers has been 1 of quite a few voices calling for her return. Also living with Sister Jean have been her two stepdaughters, Sara and Candice Livingston. Candice recollects interacting with Sister Jean that Saturday morning, and also that, afterwards in the working day, Sister Jean and Jah B “were looking at a film on Maxine’s laptop”.

“Then in the evening, Don Omar [a spouse and children good friend] came and mentioned that Sister Jean walked out of the yard. He is a sort of human being who is really hard for him to be significant, so for the reason that [of] how he mentioned it, we assumed he was joking, so we hardly ever pay out him any intellect. But then my brother’s spouse identified as and asked exactly where was Sister Jean, and that’s when we realised that a little something was erroneous,” Candice Livingston told The Sunday Gleaner.

According to Sara, “Naturally, all people was inquiring us how we could let Sister Jean go away the residence, for the reason that we all know that the gate have to be held locked at all moments. But we didn’t know that other persons experienced gone out and that it was just us and Jah B at the residence with Sister Jean. Ah imply, we have been at household with Sister Jean for months when he went to Cuba for procedure, and very little like this took place.”

She additional, “Sister Jean is the mother figure for our residence. We and her operate joke, and we know she has her issues, but we learn to offer with them and how to treatment for her. She is a sweet girl with a sweet personality, and she loves to dress up.”

“Sister Jean, a scorching gal yuh know,” Candace interjected with a snicker.

They the two have substantial hopes that Sister Jean will be discovered. “We absolutely think that Sister Jean is out there alive and that we are likely to discover her,” the sisters mentioned.

Abijah, far too, continues to be beneficial. He told The Sunday Gleaner, “Sis Jean is sorely skipped by her spouse and children on the two sides – the Livingstons and the Watts. It was just yesterday I gained an encouraging message from her niece Yanique, aka ‘Chuk Chuk’, who can not end dreaming about her and believes Sis Jean is out there and okay.”

And the look for proceeds for seventy one-year-outdated Jean ‘Sister Jean’ Watt, who is dreadlocked and about 5 feet a few inches tall.

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