FALMOUTH, Trelawny — President of the Trelawny Chamber of Commerce and Industry Dennis Seivwright is calling for the erection of a monument in this historic town in honour of the late custos of Trelawny Royland Barrett.

” Mr Barrett was the longest serving custos for the parish and he has made significant contribution in the preservation of the heritage of the town,” said Seivwight. “If it wasn’t for him, a lot of the historic buildings in the town would not be standing.”

Falmouth, the chief town and capital of Trelawny is noted for being of the Caribbean’s best-preserved Georgian towns.

Seivwright told the Observer West earlier this week that the chamber plans to ask the Trelawny Parish Council to erect the monument.

The late custos Barrett who died last month at the age of 71 was the founder and Chairman of the Falmouth Restoration Company, a non-profit organisation for the restoration of the buildings in the town.

He had been a Justice of the Peace since 1979 and served as custos of Trelawny for 18 years.

He will be laid to rest today in the Falmouth cemetery following a thanksgiving service at the historic William Knibb Baptist Church in that town.