Hon. Enid Bennett to get Official Funeral

Hon. Enid Bennett to get Official Funeral


Hon. Enid Bennett to get Official Funeral
Hon. Enid Maude Bennett,OJ, CD - Former State Minister in the Ministry of Social Security in the 1980s.

Former State Minister in the Ministry of Social Security in the 1980s, the Honourable Enid Bennett will be accorded an official funeral.

The service will be held on Saturday, January 20 at the St. Helen’s Catholic Church in Linstead, beginning at 10:00 a.m.

Ms. Bennett died at the Andrews Memorial Hospital on December 22.

Her body will be interred at Heartfield Cemetery, Linstead.

Ms Bennett served as Member of Parliament from 1976 to 1997.  She first represented the people of Central St Catherine and later West Central St Catherine.

Ms. Bennett was awarded the country’s fourth highest the honour, the Order of Jamaica, in 2012.

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