Former Miss Jamaica Universe, Shakira Martin, 30, died in a Florida hospital from complication with the sickle cell disease. She spent her last few hours unconscious on a life support machine as family and close friends surrounded her to say goodbye.
Being a sickler, Martin said she had entered the competition in hopes of getting a larger platform to increase awareness about the disease. Her mother Andrea Hall posted on the social media site, Facebook.
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"Shakira was a fighter, lived her life in the moment, never became a slave to her disease. I will [keep] you posted with all the arrangements which will be both in Florida and Jamaica her favourite place in the whole world. Thanks for your support, prayers, phone calls, texts,"
she said.
Earlier, Hall had alerted the world to the imminent death of her daughter the 2011 Miss Jamaica.
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Posted: at 5-08-2016 02:16 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
The way this world dey go now we all need to be careful because me nor understand this world or na the people wey dey inisde the world i go talk because everything done jagajaga
Posted: at 5-08-2016 02:19 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
dickieponga at 5-08-2016 02:36 PM (8 years ago) (m)
Wen d govnor of one Igbo state talk say e wan eradicate sickle cell by banning people wey fit get am by blood una illiterate Igbos wey dey here dey shout rubbish. See dis beautiful girl now she don die with no pikin.. We naijas r backward..
Posted: at 5-08-2016 02:36 PM (8 years ago) | Hero
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