'Royal' farewell - thousands pay last respects to slain priests
published: Sunday | November 13, 2005

- NORMAN GRINDLEY/DEPUTY CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
A huge funeral procession for two slain members of Missionaries of the Poor makes its way along North Street, central Kingston, yesterday.

THEY CAME to Jamaica to feed the poor and administer to the sick. They gave all they had and asked for nothing in return.

Their lives were committed solely to doing what they believed was God's will. But on October 27, a single bullet fired by an unknown assailant killed both men, on the very compound where they lived and worshipped in central Kingston.

Marco Las Puña of the Philippines and Suresh Barwa of India served Jamaica proudly as missionaries, and yesterday, the nation and the people they served came out in numbers to say thanks.