Fulton recovering from stroke
Published:Monday | September 7, 2020 | 4:52 PM
President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) Lenworth Fulton is recovering at home from a stroke he suffered a week ago.
The 65-year-old reportedly took ill at home last Monday and was taken to a private health institution where he received medical attention until he was deemed sufficiently recovered to be discharged.
Fulton told The Gleaner that he suffered a stroke that has paralysed the left side of his body but that he has not lost any feeling.
“If you touch me with a feather, I feel it,” he jokingly told The Gleaner, adding that he had already started physiotherapy and was “very hopeful” of making a full recovery.
Fulton, a graduate of the Jamaica School of Agriculture (now College of Agriculture, Science and Education) and Tuskegee University in the United States, with a diploma in general agriculture and a bachelor's in economics, respectively, defeated Glendon Harris for the JSA presidency in July 2018 to take charge of the then 123-year-old organisation.
In September of that year, Fulton, along with First Vice-president Denton Alvaranga and Second Vice-president Owen Dobson, started his three year-term, having taken control from Norman Grant, who had led the JAS since 2012.
- Christopher Serju
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