Ch­agua­nas West MP Jack Warn­er has sent con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of the late box­ing cham­pi­on, Jizelle Sa­landy, who died in a car ac­ci­dent yes­ter­day. "On be­half of the lo­cal foot­ball fra­ter­ni­ty and on my own be­half in my ca­pac­i­ty as MP for the Ch­agua­nas West con­stituen­cy, as well as in my per­son­al ca­pac­i­ty, I ex­tend con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of Jizelle Sa­landy and the box­ing fra­ter­ni­ty on her un­time­ly pass­ing. The cir­cum­stances of her death are es­pe­cial­ly dis­heart­en­ing.

"A young woman with so much po­ten­tial, so much ahead of her in her cho­sen field has been lost to us at a time when there are so few he­roes for our youth to em­u­late. "As a na­tion, we breathed a col­lec­tive sigh of re­lief and of­fered thanks for spar­ing the life of an­oth­er one of our young he­roes, Richard Thomp­son as well as Tama­ra Wat­son and Mar­vin Phillip. To lose one of our bright­est stars in a road ac­ci­dent is just an­oth­er rea­son for us, as a peo­ple to take stock and to take more care on the na­tion's road­ways."