By Janet Silvera,
Freelance Writer
Rosie Douglas
WESTERN BUREAU:
ALL EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Roosevelt Ashani Douglas wants to do is to kiss his father good-bye.
"If I don't get to go to his funeral, I am going to run away," said the Jamaican-born son of the late Dominican Prime Minister Rosie Douglas, 58, who died on October 1 of a heart attack.
The boy was scheduled to attend his father's funeral in Dominica tomorrow with his mother, Christina Cunningham. However, the two may be grounded because Miss Cunningham says she cannot find the $32,000 airfare.
"It really looks bad because everybody is going to think that, as a Prime Minister, he was not taking care of his child but this is not so," said a distraught Cunningham. "Wolmer's Prep School fee is $19,000 per term and that is what he used to pay."
She said one of the late Prime Minister's nephews who lives in Dominica asked her to pay the airfare and promised to reimburse her on arrival in Dominica. However, Miss Cunningham, who said she met the late politician in Kingston 11 years ago, said she just doesn't have the money.
The woman, who might have been Dominica's first lady, said the late Prime Minister had proposed to her in May but she turned him down because she felt he was too busy for her.
