Andrew Wildes, Gleaner Writer

TODAY MAY be the lucky day for one special single lady somewhere across Jamaica who is seeking an honest, humble and hard-working man to marry.

Fifty-five-year-old Genton Buckle, an industrious yam farmer from Joe-Hut district in the parish of Trelawny, is earnestly seeking a wife.

As he toiled away under the noonday sun, harvesting over 400 lbs of yam with a group of his fellow yam farmers, Buckle spoke of his desire to get married.

"When I look out into the world, enuh, it's like a man without a wife, come een like a kitchen without a knife!"

Buckle shared that he had always wanted to marry and have children; however, he has been waiting on God to provide and, even now, he believes it is not too late for love.

"The Bible say, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and all other things shall be added unto you'," Buckle stated, fixing his voice and hands as though he was preaching.

"It go back and say, 'Good things come to those who wait'," he said with even more emphasis.

It seemed the more passionately he preached, the less Bible he remembered.

"Anotha part say, 'Good thing wrap in small parcel'!"

Buckle comes with the full recommendation from his brothers and sisters at the Joe-Hut New Testament Church of God. In fact, two of his church sisters who were also harvesting yams - who, sadly for Buckle, are already married - were most emphatic in their descriptions of their brother as a good man.

"Genton? Hard-working man, trustworthy, Christian man. Yes man!"

"God-fearing, everything that's good a him - humble, truthful, " they stated.

Apart from yam farming, Buckle loves to sing and intends to enter the Digicel Rising Stars competition.

andrew.wildes@gleanerjm.com