With Hurricane Beryl ravishing sections of Jamaica, tearing down light poles and sending roofs flying, Queen Ifrica, in making light of the situation, said her late grandmother, also named Beryl, would've 'spared Jamaica'. "She made me the woman I am today. The couple years weh mi spen wid her inna mi early years before I went to live with my mother in Montego Bay were the best years of my life.
She was a stern Christian; my grandmother woulda be the opposite a dis Beryl man - [she] wouldn't wicked suh. She woulda seh 'Nuh kill dem ..
. spare dem, grant dem mercy' because Jamaicans are really God-fearing people at heart," Queen Ifrica told THE WEEKEND STAR . She commended Jamaicans for "sending up several prayers" and empathised with the countries that were badly affected by the adverse weather conditions.
"Wi can't forget the fact that we're a blessed nation. God love Jamaica and we have a very sacred terrain as well in terms of where we're placed. We are indeed protected and we should be grateful for that, because we take too much things for granted as an island since of late," she said.
The artiste said that in gearing up for Beryl, she ensured that she got water and lamp. "Just a few things like the old time style because wi cudda get generator but mi prefer lamp, kinda give yuh di island vibe and remind me of [the 1988 Hurricane] Gilbert. Mi deh yah a cook soup pon coal stove fi di kids because di electric stove not working," she said with a laugh.
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