Private Dwayne Alleyne of the Special Operations Company of the Barbados Regiment is a hero today – for the Best family of Coggins Hill, St Andrew, at least.
Alleyne was in a joint Police-Regiment search party that found 87-year-old James Best, missing since Tuesday, and returned him to his worried family yesterday morning.
Alleyne was the one who located Best, entangled in vines and bush.
Except for being a bit weak, he was full of humour when he was freed and taken home.
Best, who suffers from dementia and Alzheimer’s, left home to work on his nearby plot of land and did not return.
Here, James Best (third left) greeting Dwayne Alleyne (second right) as his smiling, and relieved daughters Carmen Best-Cox (left), Thelma Newton (second left), Eudora Griffith-Smart and Esther Best-Herbert (right) look on.
Soldier our hero
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