Bunny Wailer’s Brother May Not Attend The Reggae Legend’s Funeral

Carl Livingston, one of the co-executors of the Bunny Wailer estate, said that with the recent developments regarding his brother’s estate, he is adopting a “wait-and-see approach” as there is no still no definitive date for his brother, Bunny Wailer’s funeral.

Additionally, the inflammatory rhetoric used by other parties has made him wary to be more heavily involved in the upcoming funeral arrangements.

“There is just one man in the media, him say him ah the boss so him ah the boss. I tried to have an executor’s meeting with him (Abijah Livingston), but he told my attorney that he has “no time for a meeting, he’s busy trying to bury his dad’, so that’s where it is, I am just taking a wait-and-see approach,” Livingston told Loop News.

The elder patriarch said that there are still outstanding bills for the estate to handle, but that the funeral is the most paramount issue in everyone’s mind.

“He said he paid everyone but there are still medical personnel who the estate owes or who the company owes. But I am going to allow them (the children) to go and do what they want with regards to the funeral. I am just going to play it by ear from now on and use my attorney to deal with all matters in the future.”

On Sunday, the children of Reggae icon Bunny Wailer settled the much-discussed outstanding hospital bills and secured the death certificate and the documentation needed for them to start making plans for his burial.

The outstanding bill of $5,275,763.61, had to be settled for the family to obtain a death certificate so that they could plan the burial.

The children moved swiftly to establish that they will be ensuring that their father had an appropriate funeral and that they are the sole authority on all future Bunny Wailer updates. The statement specifically stated that Bunny Wailer’s son, Abijah Livingston, who is a trustee (of the estate) and also a director of Solomonic Productions Limited, is now the official go-to person for any information dealing with the late Wailer.

All legal correspondence can be directed to ASV Law, the firm appointed by the beneficiaries to act on their behalf regarding the Livingston Estate Trust.

Since the announcement that the hospital bill, there has been a lot of speculation regarding the funeral date. However, with the recent developments, Carl –  the eldest living Livingston sibling —  said that he may opt not to attend the funeral because of the potential for physical conflict and interference from ‘outside parties’.

“When Jah B’s mother and father died, I buried them because Jah B, because of his Rastafarian beliefs, didn’t go to the funerals. Bunny loved his dad, but he still didn’t go to the funeral. Now Jah B has a funeral that he has to go, I don’t have to go. He is the one who must go,” Livingston said.

While his utterance may be an emotional response born of frustration, the elder Livingston said that he will be abiding strictly by the law going forward.

“I look and I see how things are going, and I have decided to just play it by ear,” he said.

The battle lines appear to be drawn as the statement from the children also took a swipe at the interference of “third parties” who failed to act while the children stepped up to pay their father’s outstanding medical bills.

“This, again, brings into question the actual intentions of these individuals who could have easily done the same. Instead, they have been trying to force us into deals, all whilst our father was not even granted the dignity of a proper burial,” the joint statement declared.

Jah B sired 13 children, 12 girls and a boy.

The legendary reggae singer Bunny Wailer died on March 2nd in the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston at the age of 73. He had been in and out of hospital since his second stroke in July 2020.

Hailing from Trench Town, Bunny Wailer’s given name is Neville Livingston. He was a founding member of The Wailers, which included Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.