This lady is now the world's oldest 'do not drink rum '

kingston - How to become the oldest person in the world? Stay away from the rum. That is the motto of the 117-year-old Jamaican-Mosse Violet Brown, currently the oldest man on earth. Brown, known to her friends and family as 'Aunt V ', was born on March 10, 1990.

According to a local Jamaican newspaper the old lady has no secret formula for a long life on earth. 'When people ask me what I eat and drink to stay alive so long, I answer that I eat everything except chicken and pork, and I leave the rum and other alcoholic beverages. '

Brown worked eighty years as a music teacher and played as long organ in the church. After the death of her husband in 1997, she took over his duties as administrator of the cemetery where he worked. That job she held until after her hundredth.

With its 117 year Brown made many highlights in history with. She remembers like yesterday when the first cars came to Jamaica, where there was electricity and running water. They additionally survived both world wars and was the genesis of her country along. Otherwise good genes run in the family: Browns son is 97.

Brown takes over from the Italian Emma Morano, if known, the only living man who was born in the 19th century. Morano died last week in her hometown Verbania on Lake Maggiore. She was 117 years and 137 days old. Emma Martina Luigia Morano came Civiasco on November 29, 1899 in the world, also in northern Italy, in the world.

According to a local Jamaican newspaper the old lady has no secret formula for a long life on earth. 'When people ask me what I eat and drink to stay alive so long, I answer that I eat everything except chicken and pork, and I leave the rum and other alcoholic beverages. '

Brown worked eighty years as a music teacher and played as long organ in the church. After the death of her husband in 1997, she took over his duties as administrator of the cemetery where he worked. That job she held until after her hundredth.

With its 117 year Brown made many highlights in history with. She remembers like yesterday when the first cars came to Jamaica, where there was electricity and running water. They additionally survived both world wars and was the genesis of her country along. Otherwise good genes run in the family: Browns son is 97.

Brown takes over from the Italian Emma Morano, if known, the only living man who was born in the 19th century. Morano died last week in her hometown Verbania on Lake Maggiore. She was 117 years and 137 days old. Emma Martina Luigia Morano came Civiasco on November 29, 1899 in the world, also in northern Italy, in the world.

The world's oldest human is Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on March 10, 1900. Congrats Violet. pic.twitter.com/AnjXdHK1Kz

— Andrew Holness (@AndrewHolnessJM) April 15, 2017