Cadence legend Jeff Joseph will be given an official funeral, government has said.
A date has not been disclosed for the funeral service; but government said that it will be declared a day of national mourning.
Joseph’s efforts as a goodwill ambassador to Dominica must be recognized, according to a statement from the Office of the Prime Minister, released on Friday.
The Grammacks star was also a major promoter of the World Creole Music Festival in Martinique and Guadeloupe and has been singled out as a major contributor to the preservation of Dominica’s Creole culture.
He died on Wednesday after a kidney ailment.
The flag of the Commonwealth of Dominica will be flown at half-mast on all public buildings on the day of Joseph’s funeral service.
please poeple we are diffrent each and every one of us let us love one another and stop sending maypwi for one another. It was his time and he had to go please remember that no bodey is or was perfect dont hate but just remember one love. and i wish he get a good sent off like an embassador he was a model too dom.and please respect every bodeys pointe of view.
May his soul rest in peace
MY PEOPLE, PLEASE LET’S B WISE AND CLEVER.LET’S RESPECT LIFE AND DEATH . LET’S RESPECT OURSELVES, JEFF’S FAMILY AND NATION AND THROUGH THAT, JEFF HIMSELF.
LOVE YÒ, PEOPLE.
GOD MOVES IN A MISTERIOUS WAY.This is a wakeup call for us all. Dont let politics and religion devide us. We are too small as an island so let’s bigup one another and live well. It is also yime for we dominicans to recognize our own. Thanks to the Govt, Do as much as you all can during this time of mourning. Dont forget Chubby and Groovers, Exile one and all the dominican musicians. I mean everybody,Please it is not too late to start.Do not wait for when someone else passes on to wake wp from your jealous and unfocused dreams. Sorry but put that in you alls pipe and smoke it. Love always.
i commed you on that amen.
Life is a period of time given by the Most High for one to prepeare oneself to dwell in the garden of eternity;
Death is the moveing on to the next level, from this world.
Death have a bigger effect on the living than the dead;
In death alot arise.Jeff’s death raised alot of awareness, alot of hope alot of determination at a stage when our Country is going through turmoil; and we need acause to get back on course befor it to late for the children future;There always going to have those who oppose but once there are more for, that is what matters.
All the good memories poured out by almost everyone, qualified Jeff as a Leader, everyone he interact with, he left a positive impression on them.
His passing is a good uppertunity to take stock of our action,our relationship with each other a chance to try and make a change for the good of our country, cause it has been a long time since a child of the soil pass with great effects on a vast number of people, and as life is uncertain, we need to be thankfull for the experience of Jeff as a hard worker, a go getter, an achiever,some one who had the power to bring people together, and should take this uppertunity to forgive, so we can move on than to hold on to the bad feelings toward each other which takes us nowhere.
May Dominica get a chance to make a change in attitude,at his State Furneral, from the Government to the Opposition and all in between for the good of our soul and Dominica. May He Continue To Influence Us With The Positive Memories Of Him. RIP JEFF!!
My fellow brothers and sisters lets celebrate our brother Jeff life.Put all the politics aside am sure he would love that.We are not god let god decide the faith of our politicians.Pray together and love each other while we are alive.
yea Jeff was the driving force behind our music tell you that and boy please put a statue up with that man right up somewhere everyone can see,and start looking for someone to continue to drive our music forward,its a wakeup call don’t let out music die.
yea man i can remember those days at the bamboo house by the bay those days was good. music was good.bigup st.joe,n layou up the morn ochobanjo
It’s such a shame that one can’t even die in peace these days. What’s wrong with you Dominicans? Have you all gone bonkers?
If you guys have nothing good to contribute to this forum, why don’t you shut your trap. Are you all afraid that if you shut your big mouths something else will open?
Shame! Shame! Shame!on you on you people.
One of these days you gonna wonder what have you done with your lives.
Some of you have no ambition. All you do all day is find faults and devise ways and means to destroy people who are trying to change theirs and their family’s lives.
You all need to get a real life. Stop letting your idle brain go to the extreme because it’s nothing but the devils worshop.
No matter what side of the fence you come from at the end of the day we are all Dominicans. I’ve always learn from the past
that politicians will tear each other apart by day but come night time, they are knocking their glasses toasting to those idiots who are out there beating each others brains out for their sakes.
Don’t you think it’s time that “we the people” come together in the best interest of our family and country?
you need to shut up well and proper and i would do it for you pratt
WHATS YOUR POINT
YOU JUST MEPUISAYING
was Jejj contributing to the Dominican society? like giving a scholarship to a less fortunate child from his village? Did he donate anything like christmas time to the needy especially from his village? What was really his impact on the dominican society? I am only now hearing about heroism, ambassador, talk now the guy is dead. Yes he sang music, but that was his personal gain.that was his job, that was how he made a living. Yes he was popular, yes he was a great entertainer, but that doen’t make him a hero. That does not qualify him for a state funeral. Does it mean that everybody thathas good talent and is popular should get a state funeral?. So everybody like swingstars members, CK members, first serenade member, midnight groovers, KUbuli dance theater,and the list goes on and on.when all these people die, they willdeserve a state funeral too. and a day of morning too.
MAMSELLE WATS YOUR FREAKING POINT
YOU HAVE A PROBLEM
YOU HAVE NO PATAT SENSE OF HISTORY
JEFF JO MADE ALL PATRIOTIC DOMINICANS PROUD
HE WAS A CARIBBEAN ICONIC FIGURE
HE DID NOT BLOW HIS TRUMPET
HE QUIETLY HELPED SO MANY FOLKS AND DID ALOT FOR US DOMINICANS
PEOPLE ESP DOMINICANS WILL TELL U IN GWADAL AND MARTNIQUE ETC WILL TELL U HOW HE HAS COME TO THEIR SUPPORT
JEFF PAID SO MUCH MEDICAL BILLS AND SECRETLY SUPPORTED MANY CHARITABLE CAUSES ALL OVER THE PLACE HE DID THIS GEUINELY WITH HONOR AND NOT FOR HONOR
SO HE IS DESRVING OF AN OFFICIAL FUNERAL HE WAS APPOINTED AS THE GOODWILL AMBASSADOR BY TWO COUNTRIES BOTH DOMINICA AND MARTINIQUE. HE WAS ONE OF THE FEW INDIVIDUALS TO HAVE PERFORMED AT THE WORLD CLASS SUPERBOWL ETC ETC ETC
HE IS QUITE DESERVING AWARDEE
SO STOP HATING D MAN WE ALL IN DOMINICA AND BEYOND LOVED HIM
YOU WILL HEAR THE NAME OF JEFF JO ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE
I LOVE YOU JEFF GRAMMACKS AND YOUR MUSIC WILL LIVE ON
DNO TALK TO MAMSELLE FOR US PLEASE SHE NEEDS HELP A HATER !
OHH YEA FOOL ITS NOT A STATE FUNERAL ITS AN OFFICIAL FUNERAL HATER,,,,,
MAY MY GOOD BROTHER JEFF JO SMILE ON HIS HOMETOWN DOMINICA THAT HE LOVED SO MUCH. I CAN TESTIFY TO THAT.. HE IS OUR HERO, OUR BROTHER ,OUR FRIEND, AND HE DESERVES OUR OFFICIAL FUNERAL. SO PRIME MINISTER SKERRIT WE DONE FOR A WELL LOVED SON OF OUR SOIL. GOD BLESS THE SOUL OF JEFF JO, GOD BLESS PM SKERRIT AND MAY GOD BLESS THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA THE UNSPOILT LAND OF THE LIVING, AND LET THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE LAND SAY AMEN………
no wonder yr name is clueless u don’t have a clue pratt
It’s so sad dat he died but one thing i kno is dat u sippoes 2 give people their flowers b4 they die not after!!!!!!!!!!
this is such an old cliche. we cannot even give the man some flowers, and I mean some because we can never match what he s done in the French antilles without some of you coming on here and making us feel as if we are doing something wrong.
Jeff Joseph Dominica music ambassador my brother you live good but you never live to long you sing for the rich and the poor all donor you have pass and gone your music will live on from home and forinland you live a pride of every blackman you never teach us northing wroung.You been a inspiration to every blackman Jah knows it all alone R I P.
u will always be remembered espically in st joseph. r.i.p to the family
Jeff Jo Goodwill Ambassador in the same fold/Diplomatic circles representing Dominica, just like several non-Dominicans with questionable dealings? How shameful !!! Jeff never would like to be in such company. Those crooks possess Dominica’s diplomatic passports to do what? Invest in the country?
Certainly, DNO, and its readers must be acquainted with the news about those sales of our passports and those “foreign diplomats?” Are those revelations true? Have the authorities denied those revelations? Goodwill ambassadors like Ophelia should give Govt. back their diplomatic passport for the simple reason that international crooks, millionaires, those with questionable activities, also have our diplomatic passports, for all kinds of reasons but to invest.
It means Jeff Jo, Ophelia and genuine Dominicans holding such appointments have been treated with disrespect and contempt. Do we as a people understand what is going on with the sales of our passports and the issuing of diplomatic passports for Big money to any, any body? That appalling situation must be condemned by all loving Dominicans here and abroad, musicians, singers, other artists, professionals, Civil Society and not hidden under the carpet.
The press must consistently inform readers about those practices that are putting our country in extremely BAD LIGHT in the world. There are INTERCONNECTIONS here. Corruption? Fraud? Money-laundering? A FEW making MILLIONS, while the majority facing a steady decrease in their living standards. You all not seeing that? Is Dominica experiencing an epidemic of BLINDNESS or Lock JAW? Jeff will always be remembered as one with revolutionary ideals, creative and hard-working. Frankly, our cultural/musical icon should never be in the diplomatic grouping with those people we are hearing about. Never.
while we are at it, let us tell the us embassy to distance themselves from us. no u s visas to be issued to all dominicans until they can show all the skeletons in their closet. give me a break.
leave the us for mother nature,is one thing they cannot run away frm all am saying
YOU ARE A SICKO
WAT UTTER RUBBISH
BONDIEU YOU LETTING LENOX BOBOL YOUR MIND
GET SOME WORK
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN THE PRESIDENT OF THIS GROUP ………..THE DOMINICA ASSOCIATION OF LAZY PEOPLE
JEFF JOSEPH HAS DONE A LOT FOR THE MUSIC OF DOMINICA, HOWEVER, DO NOT FORGET THAT WE HAVE COUNTLESS OTHER TALENTED MUSICIANS THAT HAVE COUNTRIBUTED AND IS STILL DOING SO FOR THE COUNTRY. WE SHOULD HONOR THEM NOW AND LET THEM KNOW WE CARE. WHEN THEY ARE DEAD AND GONE THEY WILL NOT BEABLE TO APPRECIATE OUR PLEASENTRIES.
for you all to turn around and say skerrit buying dem musicians? what do you all really want???
AND
ats nice! i am moved. finally this gov’t does smething that makes sense. well done. R.I.P. jeff joe. ur memories will live through your music.
I do believe that Jeff Joe deserves the bst funeralwhen the time comes so he R.I.P in the land ofhis birth…TTTEEEEAAAAARRRRRSSSS!!!!! on my pillow i new him personally.Wht a guy! :
All around the world where Jeff Joe is known whether in person or by his music, mourns the loss of a Legend, an icon, a great musician for Cadance lypso music and a true representative for Dominica and Dominicans both home and abroad. It is a sad time and a great loss to those who truly knew you and admire you in whatever way and you will live on in our hearts. Your music will continue to play on in our homes, in our cars, over the airwaves, in the clubs and in foreign land.
My greatest sympathy to your family who have loss a member of the family. No one knows the time when our life will expire, but whatever last memory you shared, whether it’s a hug, a kiss, a handshake or even sharing the stage with him, let it be the living memory of Jeff Joe in your heart. Jeff is gone, but not forgotten. May your soul rest in peace. Long lived Jeff Joe…
On another note, can I suggest that the organizers of the World Creole Fest 2012, be dedicated to the memory of Jeff Joe? Just a suggestion….
DAT WAS SUGGESTED ALREADY WHY U SO STUPID
You have no respect. If you have nothing to say after reading somebodys else comment, then you should really keep your name calling to yourself. The only person that is stupid is yourself. Only a FOOOL like yourself would call another person stupid….FOOOL
my deepest condolenses to mjeffs family i always love and enjoy his music from a kid mat his soul rest in peace, although he have passed but his music will live on
rest in peace jeff i will always remember u as a friend and hero
hmmm…So Jesus died for our sins and the government and the people don’t want to acknowledge his death, and turn from the wicked ways, but a carnal man dies and is like whoop la, all kinda special ceremonies and blah blah! Jesus death alone I’m recognising!
There are people who gave this clown “likess”
Jeff we all loved you. May the Good Jesus bless your Soul Jeff.
As a musician, I dare say to the DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT : ” so much thanks for the way you’re thinking and acting around Jeffjo’s LIFE AND ART, the way you RESPECT him as a man, as an artist, as an ambassador. I’m African from Madinina and I’m very proud of Jeff since the begining, but I’m not the only one.
MASSIVE RESPECT 4 HIS DAD AND WHOLE FAMILY.
JEFF IS ALIVE and will remain alive, thanks to his work and HIS PEOPLE recognition.
WHO U PLAYING FOR
ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU ARE A MUSICIAN
WELL GO OVERSEAS AND DIE NUH SO U WILL SEE HOW MUCH DOMINICANS WILL COME TO D PORT TO SEE YU BODY
ALL OF A SUDDEN U WANT TO PLAY JEFF JO ON US
He will be be missed – I really hope for his sake the band doesn’t die out and that they continue. His legend will live on in the minds of many for a very long time
HOPE THEY HAVE MUSIC LOVERS
HOPE THEY HAVE FLAG WAVERS
HOPE THEY HAVE SCOUTS AND CADETS
HOPE THEY HAVE OUT RIDERS
HOPE THEY HAVE FAN FARE
HOPE THAY HAVE THE /LAMP POSTS OF THE WEST COAST IN PURPLE / WHITE COLORS
HOPE THEY HAVE TENTS JUST IN CASE IT RAINS ( WELL SINCE JEFF FALSE SICK AND DIE IS RAIN RAIN RAIN )
HOPE THEY HAVE A SERIOUS CONTINGENT OF ISAIH THOMAS SEC SCHOOL AND ST JO PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN, AND ALL THE SCHOOL CHILDREN ON THE WST COAST IN UNIFORM LINE UP THE STREETS ON D DAY OF THE FUNERAL WITH THEIR NATIONAL FLAG
I HOPE THE MEDIA HOUSES CARRY THE CEREMONY LIVE AND DIRECT NO MAR-KAK-KWEE
I WOULD RATHER THE NATIONAL STADIUM BECAUSE ITS MORE SPACIOUS AND ITS A NATIONAL EVENT AND HIS BODY WILL BE TRANSPORTED TO ST JO WITH OUT RIDERS ETC IN A DIGNIFIED MANNER VIA THE WEST COAST FOR BURRIAL
LIGHTS AND MANY TENTS SHOULD BE SET UP AT ST JO WITH LARGER SCREENS FOR LIVE COVERAGE ( DAT MUST BE DONE WHETHER OR NOT HIS FUNERAL MASS IS HELD IN ST JO CATHOLIC CHURCH ) WAS HE A CATHOLIC AT THE POINT OF DEATH I GUESS ONLY JEFF KNOWS ?
WE ALSO NEED RED CROSS AND AMBULANCE
WE ALSO NEED TRAFFIC POLICE
WE ALSO NEED ENOUGH SECURITY
WE ALSO NEED COMMONSENSE AND COOPERATION
SEVERAL THOUSANDS WILL BE CONVERGING ON D STADIUM AND OR ST JO
WE HAVE TO SHOW THE REGION AND THE WORLD WHAT WE ARE CAPABLE OFF AND USE THIS SAD EVENT TO IMPROVE OUR IMAGE AS A NATION
WE HAVE TO SHOW UNITY
FOR THE LOVE OF DOMINICA LET US BURY JEFF JOSEPH WITH ALL THE LOVE HONOUR AND DIGNIFIED RESPECT HE DESERVES
JEFF WAS ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND WELL LOVED DOMINICAN OF ALL TIMES
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE
Well said jeffomania, just hope we abroad will be able to see this historic event without interuption.
LIP SERVICE TO OUR HEROES
BIG WAY LAY WAY LAR WHEN THEY DIE
LOOK AT CHUBBY AT LEAST LIME AND DIGICEL CANNOT COME TOGETHER AND DONATE A CAR TO CHUBBY OF THE MIDNIGHT GROOVERS….I KNOW THEY CAN DO IT SINGLE HANDEDLY I HOPE SOMEONE PASS THAT MESSAGE TO THEM
AFTER ROSIE DIE WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT H
WHAT THEY WILL DO ALL THOSE DOUGLAS PEOPLE THAT TALKING SO MUCH HAVE SHOWN SCANT RESPECT TO HIS MEMORY THATS A BLASTED SHAME
JEFF WAS A BIGTIME LABOURITE UP TO NOW D DLP HAVE NOT EVEN SENT OUT A PUBLIC CONDOLENCE ON MARPIN TV ETC DATS DOMINICA FOR YOU RAH SAY TOO SHOW TOO FLAM
SAME THIG CONTINUES FOR PIERRO WHEN U DIE IN DA NO PATAT BODY CARE
AS SOMEONE SAID ON DOMINICA DISAPORA HAVE THE WEST COAST HIGH WAY NAMED AFTER JEFF JO
ITS TIME WE CHANGE ALL DEM STRET NAMES IN ROSEAU AND NAME DEM AFTER OUR HEROES
LONG LIVE JEFF JO
MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE
I am from Guadeloupe,first of all i want to offer my one’s sympathy to jefferson JOSEPH family and generaly to Dominica’s People.You have lost one of the famous representant of your Island.According to me he was internationaly known.I kept in memory that in my teenage years the first record i have bought was ” Soucougnan”.It’allow me to discover my neighbourg,their way of life,their language & music and appreciate them.In this daily acts i think that he try to consolidate the fact that above all we are brothers & sisters that story seperate to make us join again in the Caribbean Continent.
RIP Brother Jeff
I would like to share my condolences. But the statement should be that the flags will be flown at half staff. We use mask if the flags are flown on the sea.
its very intreasting that jeff joe is no longer alive and all flowers are bestored uopn him. an official furenel, and the works.lip service is the oder of the day, hence my question is as follows,when the brother was alive and kicking why more recogniation was not given to him?,he making such a meaning ful contribution to Dominica and its culture as a genuine Dominican.why he could not recieve a parcle of land like Brian Lara recieved?, why he did not recieve more tangables for such a great work done on behalf of Dominica.He is dead and at this time all the flowers are given when its of no signifance to the brother.Such hyporicates this society is.
what u mean no recognition? Jeff Jo was made a goodwill ambassador. And there is no doubt that Dominicans loved Jeff Joseph and showed him.
where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise.
ASK UWPEE THEY DAT GIVE LARA LAND
I am just wondering, was this guy a goverment official? I knew about him as the lead singer of grammacks, but never heard anything of him being an ambassador. Can you enlighten us please? because alot of people are in the dark and are really wondering.
Jeff was a Goodwill ambassador, he therefore qualifies for an official funeral.
WHAT ARE U TALKING ABOUT
LORD HAVE MERCY
D WHOLE WORLD READ DNO
AND U MAKING A COMPLETE IDIOT OF YOURSELF
WHEN WILLU LEARN
EVEN IN DEATH YOU FOOLISH
WEH PAPA
DNO HOW ALLU HANDLING SUCH PEOPLES NUH ?
Respect to the max!!!
WE LOVE YOU JEFF J
jeff j was a great singer we will always remmber him in the name of theLORD JESUS CRIST RIP JEFF J YOUR MUSIC WILL REMANE THE SAME
May the family of the bereaved find comfort and strength in God Almighty. Rest In Peace
ch means.clear harbour
respect jeff joe well deserve
HAVE YOU EVEN CONSULTED THE FAMILY ON THIS B4 MAKING IT PUBLIC just dont repeat what happened on Saturday when the body arrived
what happened Saturday?
OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU TOE SORT
CONSULTED FOR WAT
STOP TALKING STUPIDY LOL
TAKE YOUR TABLETS
I dont get the that day flags will fly at half-mast from the day we found out he died flags should have been at half-mast RIP bro u did more for da than alot off us from me and my family we say thank u.
LA respect due to Jeff Jo and his service to Dominica through music etc. Highest of praise for that but a national day of mourning and official funeral for him? I mean these people just totally disregard proportion, protocol,appropriateness of actions. I mean even Jeff’s family who know better should be a little embarrassed and such suggest tot he rest that they respectfully say thanks but no thanks.
I am not getting what you are saying.. Can you be a little more clear with what you are saying. Thanks
Protcol & Appropriateness my big toe.Jeff is an international figure/icon & national hero.Don’t try to play stinky politics with this one. Jeff’s family knows better.
WELL SAID DEM PIPS SO DOUCE CIAT
BUT WE IN ST JO WAITING FOR DEM
E KNEE NUM ST JO
Your comment is so elaboratively senseless, i think it would make more sense if i read it up side down. My point: Quit confusing yourself. Jeff has made a more positive contribution/impact for Dominica than Skerit and Eddie combined. Give him the respect due.
anonymous………keep your low arse comments to yourself
THE FING ON YOU AGAIN WELL JEFF DEAF DOING THINGS PAPA
that person need to shut up because if i would see that person in st joe i would make them eat their words, standard no body disrespect Jeff u here, put that in yr pipe and smoke,
A PARO DAT THERE LOL ONE DAT EDUCATED
thanks for showing respect to him still his last moment he have donne alots with his music bring family together and help those in need again thank u jeff joseph u will be surely miss bye all but yr music will always be with us thanks again
I am going to miss my cusion well we cant do nofing about it
U NOT IN OUR FAMILY U NOT A THOMAS U NOT A LAURENT U NOT AN AMANTRADING YOU NOT A BAPTISTE YOU NOT A CHARLES YOU NOT A SERRANT YOU NOT A LUKE YOU NOT A SYLVESTER YOU NOT A HUSSEY YOU NOT A JOSEPH ETC
YOU NOT A MOISE
YOU NOT A JNO CHARLES
YOU NOT OUR DAMN FAMILY
but you are a real fool,tell u dat
hope skerrit can close down ch for that day too.
yeah right! all CHers know that will NEVER HAPPEN. Espayway!!!
What does “CH” means?
clear Habour. lol lol. Allu will go work though. Americans that paying allu salary not the state. lol
IT MEANS CLEAR HARBOR @DOMINICA Too Smal
Why can’t we just appreciate the good gestures others make out of the goodness of their heart.Jeff was someone who was highly regarded in our island. Leave the negativity out. Wether it was at WCF or in NYC or at Boyd’s shop eating bakes jeff was the same great dominican.
STAY MAHO AND MIND PEOPLE BUSINESS
GENTLE REST REJECTED YOU
YOU MOUTH LIKE A LIME PHONE PARLAY
ALL YOU WISH .. ALL U WILL GO WORK .
wat sully comment is dat?