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Tony Gits out of Hospital

Thanks to all those who have sent “Get Well” wishes during this difficult time. I appreciate the prayers and support that helped me through this.

As many of you may have known, I planned to travel to Canada the week of June 5, 2012. This trip had to be cancelled because I was not feeling well, and an appointment was made to see a doctor here in Florida. I got halfway into the car and that was that. I started to feel really sick, weak and short of breath. I knew that something was terribly wrong and called 911 and was rushed via ambulance with sirens blaring to the local hospital. In the Emergency Room, the doctors did a million tests and decided that I was in Respiratory Distress and needed to be admitted to the hospital!! I have NEVER been sick a day in my life, let alone been in a hospital! For the next eight days I was prodded, poked, stuck with needles, x-rayed, scanned and totally checked over. It seemed that every hour or so, a nurse would come in with another pill, shot or IV bag of something or the other! The care was excellent, but I think it should be illegal for anyone to wake a sick person up at 4 in the morning to draw blood!

JA lauds two soul rebels

FOR much of their careers, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer unapologetically ‘beat down Babylon’.

Today, their accomplishments will be recognised by the establishment which they often rebelled.

TOSH... died in 1987, will receive the Order of Merit. WAILER... recipent of the Order of Jamaica

Tosh, who died in 1987, will posthumously receive the Order of Merit, Jamaica’s third-highest honour, while the 65-year-old Wailer is recipent of the Order of Jamaica, the country’s fourth-highest accolade at King’s House in St Andrew.

Along with Bob Marley, who died in 1981, they were original members of The Wailers which formed in the Kingston ghetto of Trench Town during the early 1960s.

Here is some information about Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer:

• Peter Tosh was the musician of The Wailers. He played guitar on American jazz guitarist Eric Gale’s acclaimed jazz/reggae set, Negril.

• Bunny Wailer has always been the most dance-oriented of the three most famous Wailers. Songs like Ballroom Floor and Rock ‘N’ Groove pay tribute to Jamaica’s dancehall culture.

Mystic Revealers rock live concert

Howard Campbell

A near-capacity audience streamed into Hope Botanical Gardens on Saturday evening for a live concert produced by the environmental group, Plant a Tree Foundation.

They saw three bands representing different genres and generations of Jamaican music — No-Maddz, Mystic Revealers and Rootz Underground.