The body of another Jamaican pop music pioneer, singer Roy Shirley, was scheduled to return to Jamaica yesterday. A release from the Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sport stated that special projects consultant with the ministry, Colin Leslie, and Jamaica Association of Vintage Artistes executive Bunny Brown, received the body at the Norman Manley International Airport.

Shirley died at his London home in early August at the age of 60, but a statement from the London-based Trojan Records said his family had difficulty raising funds for his funeral.

Leslie said the funeral expenses will be jointly handled by the ministry and JAVA. Brown said no date has been set for the service.

"We are going to make arrangements, but we can say it's definitely going to be next week," Brown told The Gleaner.

The west Kingston-born Shirley was best known for the 1960s hit song, Hold Them.