Glenroy Sinclair, Staff ReporterFEBRUARY 14 , 2005 will not go down as a happy Valentine's Day for those close to six-year-old Paul Brown and three-year-old Shabrina Tulloch, the siblings who perished in a fire at their home in Duhaney Park, St. Andrew, on Sunday.
"Today is Valentine's Day and we should be happy, but we are all sad," Mrs. Faydris Foster, Paul's teacher at the Duhaney Park Primary School, told Paul's classmates shortly after devotion yesterday morning.
A pall of gloom hung over the school. The teachers and students heard about the tragedy when they arrived for classes yesterday. Since then, Mrs. Foster, a 20-year veteran in the teaching profession said it has plunged the school in a state of depression.
"I am so sorry to hear what happened to him. He was such a pleasant and outgoing child. I always have to talk to him whenever he looked sad," said Miss Foster.
GREET WITH A BRIGHT SMILE
Cloverlyn Grant, a staff member at the day care centre where the children stayed before and after school, described Paul as excited, somebody who would greet you with a bright smile, screaming out your name.
Residents in the community further described the children as very mannerly and polite. "Anywhere dem go and see people who dem know, dem call to them politely," a group of residents told The Gleaner yesterday.
In the meantime, the police continues to question the mother of the children, along with two men. This is according to Superintendent Newton Amos, head of the South St. Andrew Police Division.
"The mother of the children is likely to be charged. We will be sending the file to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)," said Supt. Amos.
