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| The legendary Patsy Rickets receives CCRP 2017 Living Legacy Award from Most Hon Prof Sir Kenneth Hall and yours truly, Executive Chair and Founder of CCRP. (Looking back, that was not a great way to hide the cast on my broken arm!) |
When 24-year-old singer Alty ‘Jah-Ova-Evil’ Nunes
died from an aneurysm in February 2011, his mother, the legendary NDTC leading dancer Patsy
Ricketts and his siblings decided to carry on his legacy, expanding his ‘Jah Ova
Evil’ JOE social enterprise project in Vineyard Town.
As noted by Digicel Foundation Project Officer for
Community Development, Miguel ‘Steppa’ Williams, “Jah Over Evil has been involved
in creative productions formally for the past 10 years ... Now the group does
numerous creative arts development interventions with youth in communities
across Kingston and the wider Jamaica. Their most recent partnership with Youth
Crime Watch Jamaica, NIA and USAID solidified their social enterprise as a
viable option for vulnerable spaces.”
With recent assistance from the Digicel Jamaica Foundation towards training, employment and life skills development,
the company which has a music studio and screen-printing facilities now
benefits 25 directly and 200 young people indirectly.
Well done, Patsy Ricketts.
As the Bible says, you have ‘turned your tears into dancing’ for the good of
your community, in tribute to your dear son.
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