Several vendors selling their produce in the usually busy Coronation Market in downtown Kingston reflected Saturday on the tragedy which befell their colleagues the night before.

Travelling their usual route into Kingston from Portland to sell in the market, 14 persons, mostly vendors, died when the truck they were aboard plunged into a ravine.

When the Gleaner team visited the section of the market where the Portland vendors are usually, some selling areas were unoccupied, littered with dried banana leaves and other debris. There were about six vendors in the area with their goods, mainly ground provisions, scattered on tarpaulin.

The tragic accident was on everyone's lips.

"Mi caan believe it. Miss Likkle nah go see Christmas," said a woman in her 50s who gave her name as 'Miss Eunice'.

The vendor known to many as 'Miss Likkle' has been identified by the police as 49-year-old Beverly Bernard-McDonald, who got married last month.

Miss Eunice was close to tears as she informed one of Miss Likkle's customers of the accident. Bernard-McDonald sold mainly dasheen, yam and green bananas.

"A lie!" Venice, the customer, exclaimed, obviously shocked by the news.

Venice told The Gleaner that Bernard-McDonald was her usual vendor. "Weh mi a go do now?" she asked. "Mi always buy dasheen from her 'cause she know the kind mi like."

"She was a good woman, very kind," said Donna, one of a few vendors selling callaloo in that section of the market.

"Everybody knows Miss Likkle, she give we food and mek we eat," Donna recounted. "We a go miss her."