News March 17 2026 by Janet Silvera/Gleaner Writer

Mom of six only wanted Bible after home burned down

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Natalee Watson and her children, daughter Rosetta Jackson and son Ethon Jackson.
Natalie Watson with members of her church at the site of the fire.
The site of the fire.

WESTERN BUREAU: When fire destroyed the modest two-bedroom board house she struggled for years to build, single mother Natalie Watson lost everything – her beds, clothes, furniture, and the roof she had already rebuilt after a hurricane. However, in the hours after the blaze, which left her homeless in Bamboo Old Pen, Hanover, the first thing Watson asked for was a Bible. “I didn’t think about the furniture or anything that burn up,” Watson told The Gleaner. “All that come to my mind was that my Bible burn. I say, ‘God, I don’t want to miss my lesson’.”