Munga on the mend
MUNGA Honorebel’s lawyer, Christopher Townsend, said the dancehall deejay is slowly recovering following Saturday’s threeway motor vehicle crash which claimed the life of a Canadian citizen.
“He’s in the Spanish
Town Hospital. He received head and primarily chest injuries... and has difficulties talking,” Townsend told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.
The attorney-at-law said Munga Honorebel was coming from a stage show which he had been a performer.
However, unlike the official police report, Townsend said the deejay and the Canadian citizen were passengers in the back seat of the vehicle.
“They were passengers... and he was wearing his seat belt,” he said.
Townsend said he was unable to say when the artiste would be released from hospital.
“I can only surmise he’s still there,” he said. “What I do know is that his management is expressing condolences for the loss of life. She was a fan of Munga.”
According to the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Corporate Communications Unit, Munga Honorebel (given name Damian Rhoden) was driving a Toyota Axio motor car in the vicinity of Ferry about 5:50 am when his vehicle crashed into a Suzuki Vitara.
Police say the Vitara then crashed into a Hiace bus in which the Canadian woman, identified as 26-year-old Tashana Cumbermack, was travelling. Cumbermack was pronounced dead at hospital, while the driver and one of his passengers were admitted for treatment.
Investigations will continue.
Munga Honorebel was heavily featured in the news last year due to his murder charge, which is in “case management” court.
“It’s wait and see... to see if the case will be thrown out or whether it will be going to trial,” Townsend added.
Munga Honorebel, whose career spans nearly two decades, got his break in 2005 when he teamed up with producer Don Corleon. Among his tracks are In My Arms, Flippin Rhymes, and Bad From Me Born.