A young Jamaican mother left May Pen chasing a better life for her children. She died on an Antiguan road in 2022. Her body lay in cold storage for four years while the wheels of justice ground slowly forward. Now, finally, she is coming home.

ST. JOHN'S Antigua, April 13, 2026 - On the morning of January 20, 2022, Lashauna Sheleta Bridgen stepped out of a vehicle on Friar’s Hill Road in Antigua. She never made it across.

A collision with a speeding car cut short the life of a 29-year-old woman from Longbridge Avenue, May Pen, Clarendon — a security officer who had crossed the Caribbean Sea in search of something better, leaving behind two small children aged four and seven, with the quiet, iron determination of a Jamaican mother who refused to let circumstance be the final word on her family’s future.