Toots Hibbert funeral did not go every bit planned amongst some family drama.

Funeral services for one of the founding fathers of reggae music, Frederick 'Toots' Hibbert, hit a snag on Thursday, afterwards no one in omnipresence of the funeral could locate the burial permit post-obit the body making the journey to the Dovecot Memorial Gardens in St. Catherine. This comes following concerns from family unit members who expressed their disappointment at the singer being laid to rest outside his hometown. Late terminal month, Toots' daughter Jenieve Bailey announced the decision to have her father'southward torso sleep peacefully in May Pen Clarendon, where other family unit members were buried.

"The whole family agrees for him to come dorsum abode to where his female parent, father, iii brothers and sister are buried. He needs to take the country road back to the identify where he belongs, yous don't need anything plainer than that," said Wilbert Hibbert, Toots' 59-year-erstwhile nephew at the time.

Sadly, with mere days before the planned date of burying on Oct 15, it was appear that there would be a modify in the singer's place of balance.

"He sings nigh the land road in one of his biggest songs, and he is always visiting us down here. Him never exit us out," said Wilbert as he reiterated his stance on Toots Hibbert's proposed burial spot. "But from Miss Doreen dem [Toots' widow and some of the children] come down here and choose the country couple weeks now, nosotros don't hear non a discussion. No grave digging not going on down here and everybody in Treadlight — my female parent, sisters, my aunt — ah enquire me what is happening."

The day of the burial saw everything going as planned, with a private service involving close family members taking place at Perry'south Funeral Home chapel. Toot's body was then transported to Dovecot Memorial Gardens in the same parish, where information technology was then noticed that no one in attendance possessed the burial document, which is normally provided by the Registrar Full general Section upon the obtainment of a signed death certificate.

"Nobody in the family had the burying gild in their possession and without a signed burial order, the body cannot be placed in the grave," one source told The Gleaner.

Toots Hibbert's torso was returned to Perry's Funeral Domicile following the family'southward inability to provide the needed documents.

Hibbert was born in the Treadlight commune in May Pen, even so, relocated to the musical Mecca of Trench Boondocks following the passing of his parents while he was still a young boy.

The 77-yr-old was admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies after reporting concerns with his breathing. The reggae legend would after laissez passer away equally a result of challenges brought on by COVID-19 on September 11.