There is, it is said, no rest for the wicked and the people of Old Harbour Bay have certainly lived up to that.

Not that they are not resting; they did not allow the Dryden brothers, Wayne and Deon, to be buried in the cemetery in their community. On January 22 residents padlocked the gate to the cemetery, saying that the dead men who they called terrorists and who had been linked to several murders in St. Catherine over the past two years should not be buried in the community.

As THE STAR reported yesterday, they were finally buried at May Pen Cemetery. There was no one to protest there, not only because it was far from Old Harbour Bay but, based on the history of some who are already there, the two are right at home.

It is unfortunate, though, that the community's judgement was dispensed only in death. It is also very unfortunate that a 10-month-old baby was also murdered along with the Dryden brothers, who were found dead in a car off Spanish Town Road on December 9.

While a decent burial should be the right of all people, the residents of Old Harbour Bay obviously felt very strongly that the pair had given up this right. While they are not judge, jury and, we presume, executioner, we do know that those who are closest to a situation feel it most.

And we do wish that gunmen not be given hero's funerals and legend's remembrances, something which happens far too often in this country.