CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Tues. May 13, 2008: The family of popular Jamaican entrepreneur, Vincent `Vinny` HoSang are today mourning the loss of their son and sibling, 24-year-old Brian HoSang.

Brian died on Mother`s Day, May 11 at around 1:30 p.m., after his motorcycle crashed into a guardrail near Exit 8 in North Salem, NY. State police say the Pleasantville native was heading southbound when he lost control of the two-wheeler and hit guide wires that severed his leg.

He crashed into the woods below and was pronounced dead at the scene. No immediate cause of the crash was given.

Sources close to the family say Brian`s parents Vincent and Jeanette, his sisters Simone and Sabrina, and his brother Damian are devastated by the death of the Westchester Community College alumnus who was known as a `dare devil` cyclist in some quarters.

`I got the call directly from Vinny at around 3:30 Sunday,` Team Jamaica Bickle`s Irwine Clare told CWN yesterday. `For the first time I heard a sense of hopeless and sincere loss in his voice. I too was flabbergasted and blown away and my first thought was how can someone who has given so much be made to carry such a heavy burden?`

Clare said he has seen Brian some four weeks ago and last night remembered him as `the extrovert in the family, the happy go lucky person with an immediate smile.`

`Nothing seemed to phase him … he was carefree but disciplined and had a mind of his own,` added the Queens-based resident and close friend of the HoSang family. `He took risks… I imagine he lived the life he wanted.`

On behalf of TJB, Clare expressed condolences to the family, adding that `whereas there can be no celebration in the death of an individual and more so a family member, we must also celebrate his life.`

Jamaican-American Councilman, Leroy Comrie, also expressed `deepest condolences and prayers to the HoSang family` last night.

`I can’t imagine how painful this loss is since it defies the logical order of things. We are not meant to bury our children. That being said, I am hopeful that Vincent and Jeanette will take some solace in the fact that their son Brian exemplified the best qualities of their family. He was a special part of the entrepreneurial immigrant success story and philanthropic commitment that has endeared the HoSang family to so many New Yorkers. It is my hope that God will grant you the strength and support to endure this difficult time,` he added.

The HoSangs are a fixture in the Jamaican community in New York as owners of the popular Caribbean Food Delight and Jerk Q-Zine group of companies. Since 1978, HoSang and his wife, Jeanette, have built up restaurants, bakeries and a wholesale frozen-food business selling Jamaican food products.

By the early 1980s, demand for baked goods was so great that the HoSangs bought a larger bakery spare in the Bronx, but by 1987 the city took the land by eminent domain for a municipal garage, and the HoSangs moved the factory to a 20,000-square-foot site in Mount Vernon.  In 2005, they launched the JerkQzine franchise chain.

They have won many awards for their philanthropic ventures in the Jamaican community and are a fixture at the annual Team Jamaica Bickle where they not only help aid Jamaican athletes participating in the Penn Relays financially, but also provide daily meals for them.

Brian HoSang worked as the manager at Jerk-Q-Zine, one of his family's Caribbean fast-food restaurant in Mount Vernon, NY

Funeral arrangements were last night still up in the air.