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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

THA Chief Secretary: Tobago devasted by Morris murder

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Chief sec­re­tary of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Orville Lon­don has de­scribed James Mor­ris, al­so known as "Mr Mt Pleas­ant," as a "unique in­di­vid­ual who lived a full life and made a last­ing con­tri­bu­tion to this is­land and its peo­ple."Mor­ris, 67, a build­ing con­trac­tor, was chopped to death dur­ing a rob­bery at his home in Mt Pleas­ant on Wednes­day. There were no ar­rests up to late yes­ter­day as To­ba­go po­lice of­fi­cers con­tin­ue in­ves­ti­ga­tions.Po­lice be­lieve rob­bery was the mo­tive for the killing.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day Lon­don said, "The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly joins the rest of the is­land and coun­try in ex­tend­ing con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends, nu­mer­ous ad­mir­ers and ac­quain­tances of James Mor­ris, who died in trag­ic and vi­o­lent cir­cum­stances."Lon­don said To­bag­o­ni­ans were "shocked and dev­as­tat­ed at the bru­tal­i­ty" of the act which end­ed Mor­ris's life."We hope and ex­pect that his per­pe­tra­tors will be ap­pre­hend­ed in the short­est pos­si­ble time," the chief sec­re­tary said."We mourn his loss but we must al­so ap­pre­ci­ate the life, the con­tri­bu­tion and the ex­am­ple of Mr Mt Pleas­ant, who per­son­i­fied so many of the pos­i­tive qual­i­ties to which we should ad­here to in this chal­leng­ing world.

Mor­ris was a reg­u­lar caller to ra­dio and tele­vi­sion talk shows.Lon­don said, "James Mor­ris was a hard-work­ing, am­bi­tious and gen­er­ous in­di­vid­ual who rose from hum­ble be­gin­nings to be­come one of the is­land's most suc­cess­ful and re­spect­ed build­ing con­trac­tors."His as­sertive and in­ci­sive in­ter­ven­tions on ra­dio and tele­vi­sion talk shows un­der­lined his fierce loy­al­ty to To­ba­go and his pur­suit of the high­est prin­ci­ples of in­tegri­ty and ba­sic de­cen­cy."


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