Yvonne Webb

Metic­u­lous arrange­ments are in place for a sec­ond fu­ner­al ser­vice to­day for Michelle Coudray-Greaves, late daugh­ter of San Fer­nan­do may­or Mar­lene Coudray. The memo­r­i­al trib­ute will take place at Our La­dy of Per­pet­u­al Help RC Church at 2 pm. A fu­ner­al ser­vice and cre­ma­tion took place in Ja­maica on Thurs­day. Coudray re­turned from Ja­maica on Thurs­day night with an urn con­tain­ing her daugh­ter's ash­es.

Mon­sign­or Chris­t­ian Pereira, parish priest and Can­non Dr Steve West of the An­gli­can Church, will of­fi­ci­ate at to­day's ser­vice to cel­e­brate the life of the late school­teacher. The South­er­naires Choir, led by Joy Cae­sar will do a mu­si­cal trib­ute. Of­fi­cials of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), led by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, are ex­pect­ed to at­tend the ser­vice.

Coudray is a deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the UNC and was last night named new Gen­der Af­fairs Min­is­ter in a ma­jor Cab­i­net reshuf­fle by the PM. Yes­ter­day, in an­tic­i­pa­tion of a large turnout, tents and large-screen tele­vi­sion sets were set up in the church­yard. The Par­adise Ceme­tery, where the ash­es will be in­terred, has been spruced up and in­struc­tions have been giv­en to close off sev­er­al streets around the church and the ceme­tery dur­ing the fu­ner­al.

A prayer ser­vice was held for friends, rel­a­tives and well-wish­ers, at Coudray-Greaves' Co­coyea Vil­lage home, last night. Coudray-Greaves, 39, a moth­er of three, went miss­ing in Ja­maica, on June 2. Her burnt corpse was found in a Mon­tego Bay cane­field, near where she was last seen, one week lat­er. The re­mains were iden­ti­fied through den­tal foren­sic test­ing. Ja­maican po­lice have de­tained one man in con­nec­tion with her ab­duc­tion and homi­cide.