‘Bad luck mash up mi life’ - Former chef seeks assistance to buy food and medication

Fifteen years ago 53-year-old Winston Antonio Ross, a former resort chef from Spanish Town in St Catherine, was the talk of the town, as his cooking touched the hearts of many persons at his workplace in Toronto, Canada.

Ross was living his dream and had hopes of starting a food business.

Those dreams were shattered when he was injured while helping to carry a speaker box from the basement of his home in Canada.

He told THE WESTERN STAR that on the day of the accident he can clearly remember assisting his friend to carry the speaker box. He slipped, and the box fell on a section of his side and his legs. His spine was injured in the process.

"Mi neva dream seh dis woulda happen to mi. Everything was going to how mi plan it inna mi life, and all of a sudden everything collapse," Ross said.

FIRST-CLASS CHEF

"Mi was a first-class chef, and everybody love mi inna Canada when mi cook. All a the place dem weh mi cook haffi request mi back, but bad luck mash up mi life."

Ross explained that after the accident, things went downhill.

"Mi used to live wid mi sister inna Canada until me and she fall out. At that time mi sick, so mi haffi come back a Jamaica," he said.

"Few years ago, mi come back to Spanish Town, but because a mi sickness, mi caan work and caan do nothing, so mi start suffer. A friend of mine introduced mi to Westmoreland, and him bring mi down here come live, but things a the same. Mi can barely walk, and mi don't live anywhere, and mi need help wid food and mi medication bills. A one and two people bout the place help mi wid food most a the time and keep mi alive."

Several residents in the community of Bethel Town told THE WESTERN STAR that Ross is willing to assist persons in the area, but his disability makes him unable to help.

It is also understood that Ross' living condition is also poor, as he now resides in an old courthouse in the community.

Persons wishing to assist Ross may call 876-315-3940.