JN rewards Trench Town hero
Gifts from corporate Jamaica continue to pour in for Tremayne Brown, the man who jumped into a gully with gushing rainwater to save the life of 12-year-old Renaldo Reynolds in Trench Town on September 8.
Last Thursday Allan Lewis, managing director of JN Fund Managers Limited, presented Brown with a gift from the JN Group. Lewis also presented a gift to Alphanso Coombs, who helped pull Brown and Reynolds from the gully as Brown held on to a tree branch to prevent them from washing further down the waterway.
Lewis commended the young hero, telling him that his selfless act was an inspiration to the members of the JN Group and to all Jamaicans.
The JN gesture followed others by Lasco and FLOW earlier last week.
The 12-year-old boy said he was on his way home from Jones Town Primary School during heavy rain when he was encouraged by a group of older boys in the vicinity of Seventh Street to jump into the gully on Collie Smith Drive.
“I put one foot in the water. When I was coming out my hand slipped and I started to wash away,” Reynolds told the Jamaica Observer last Sunday.
Residents saw what was taking place and started screaming for help. Within seconds Brown jumped into the gully in an effort to save the boy who he had never met before, although their houses are metres apart.
Despite the danger, Reynolds told the Observer that the only thing on his mind during the ordeal was that he would receive a beating from his mother who, he said, had warned him on numerous occasions about playing in the gully.
Last week, as Brown received more commendations for his act of bravery, he told the Observer that he was taught how to care for people at age of seven by family friend Fay Chung, who became his foster parent after his father was deported from the United Kingdom.