FIREMEN RUNNING frenziedly. Black smoke billowing. Sirens blaring. Panic-stricken parents and onlookers. Finally, cries of anguish as relatives identified the bodies of their loved ones.
Those are the memories that are forever etched in the minds of relatives of the six young women who perished in the September 3, 2010 fire at the store Campus Trendz on Tudor Street, Bridgetown.
Kellisha Olliviere, Shanna Griffith and Pearl Cornelius – employees of Campus Trendz – and shoppers Kelly-Ann Welch, Tiffany Harding and Nikita Belgrave died after the store was firebombed by robbers.
Now, a year later, family members expressed one common regret – they had been robbed of the friendship of a young woman who had never “seen a star pitch”.
Last Thursday evening, over at London Bourne Towers on Bay Street, St Michael, Cornelius’ 12 family members, who flew into the island from Guyana to participate in yesterday’s anniversary walk for the victims, gathered on a patio reflecting on the life of their “princess”.
Theresa Marshall, the 18-year-old’s grandmother, said the family was trying to cope, but “it is hard”.
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