Bishop believes destroying casket sent strong message

Bishop Dr Rohan Edwards of the Lighthouse Ministries in Spanish Town, St Catherine, said the presence of a coffin at Sunday's Evangelical rebuke of crime in Jamaica was more than theatrics.

Hundreds of people who gathered in gathered Half Way Tree Square, St Andrew on Sunday for Jamaica Pray, witnessed a white and gold coffin being broken to pieces by clergymen.

"The coffin speaks of the spirit of death, murder and evil that is hanging over the nation," Bishop Edwards told THE STAR yesterday.

Bishop Edwards said that between 2005 and 2016, roughly 16,000 caskets have passed through Jamaica ass a result of criminality.

"The casket is to show Jamaica we are fed up of the mayhem of people killing one another and murdering each other, death and destruction," he said.

So fed up were the clergymen of seeing the crime symbol of the coffin that they took a hammer and broke it to pieces.

Edwards, when asked if the casket was bought or rented, said "I have a builder at the Allen's Funeral home in Damhead, St. Catherine, who made it for me."