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Gerry Sharp, citrus pioneer and husband of Marie Sharp passes away 

Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2019. 6:02 pm CST.

BBN Staff: Gerry Sharp, the beloved husband of Marie Sharp of the world famous Marie Sharp Pepper Sauce LTD has passed away.

Gerry retired from the Citrus Company of Belize before devoting his agricultural knowledge and skills full time to the family’s farm and factory located on the Melinda road in the Stann Creek district. The Sharp family has a long and rich history in the development of the citrus industry in Belize.

According to a post on the Company’s facebook page, “Multiple generations of Sharp’s managed the fundamental citrus operations and the history goes back to H.R. Sharp and G.G.R. Sharp of Jamaica, before Gerry’s father, Frank Sharp, took over”.

As, Denzyl F. Jenkins once said, “the Sharp’s must be credited for transforming the Belize Citrus Industry, metaphorically speaking, from a way-side fruit shop to a supermarket. Those brave, bull-headed Jamaicans who the Sharps influenced to come to Belize – names like Ritchie, Holness, Wright, Jones, Bailey, Levy, Burrell, Dickson, Willacy, Cooke, James, Finlayson – became the backbone of what came to be known as the Citrus Growers Association,”  the release further stated.

The involvement of Gerry Sharp himself in the citrus industry spans many decades, serving in various management capacities at the Citrus Products of Belize factory, Citrus Growers Association, the Pounds Solids Committee and other entities in the citrus industry.

Gerry and his wife Marie Sharp have been making pepper sauces, jams and other processed products since 1981 at their Melinda Plant in Stann Creek, Belize.

BBN extend our most sincere condolences to Sharp’s family and friends.

 

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