EMBATTLED EX-MAYOR of Spanish Town, Dr. Raymoth Notice, hails his father Bishop Raymot Notice as an 'icon of peace and love' who heads the Water Lane New Testament Church in Montego Bay, St. James. The former mayor said his father is his role model. "Most of the qualities I exhibit, especially in politics when dealing with those who oppose me, I learnt from him."
Dr. Notice admitted that although he is an adult, he is still his father's little boy. "As much as I am 45 years old he would still advise me like I am five years old."
Dr. Notice added that while Bishop Notice was not the type to talk of love frequently, he had other non-verbal means of communicating his emotions.
"When he hugs you or smiles at you ... he has a captivating and tantalising smile that has caused everyone to admire him," he said with pride. Dr. Notice, who is still feeling the heat of an unrelated police investigation for the killers of Otis Doyley of High Mountain district in St. Catherine, who were allegedly travelling in a vehicle assigned to the mayor at the time of the killing, told The Sunday Gleaner that whenever pressure mounts on him he tears a page from his father's book.
"When he is under pressure he preaches harder (so) when I am under pressure I have to take a leaf from his book by being more religious." Through the Sankey, All The Way My Saviour Leads Me, Dr. Notice said he learnt from the early morning prayer meetings with his father keeps him through these trying times.
