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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Students get first chance to say farewell to ANR

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Hun­dreds of stu­dents from pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools across To­ba­go were among the first to file past the body of for­mer pres­i­dent, prime min­is­ter and To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) chair­man Arthur Napoleon Ray­mond Robin­son, af­ter view­ing was opened to the pub­lic at 6 am at the THA Leg­is­la­ture yes­ter­day.The venue was buzzing with a con­stant flow of peo­ple, all of whom want­ed their op­por­tu­ni­ty to pay their last re­spects to the son of the soil and to be a part of his­to­ry.

Se­cu­ri­ty was tight and in­di­vid­u­als were al­lowed in the cham­ber in batch­es to avoid con­ges­tion in the area where the cof­fin sat.A mood of som­bre­ness and re­flec­tion per­vad­ed the cham­ber as peo­ple walked past the flag-draped, closed cas­ket which bore Robin­son's body.Mem­bers of the Robin­son fam­i­ly were al­so on hand to greet the pub­lic and ac­cept con­do­lences.The day saw past and present THA as­sem­bly­men and gov­ern­ment min­is­ters pay­ing their last re­spects.

Chris­to Gift SC, George Stan­ley Baird, Pamela Nichol­son, Bev­er­ly Ram­sey-Moore, Mer­ri­am Cae­sar-Moore, Ren­nie Du­mas, and min­is­ters Ver­nel­la Al­leyne-Top­pin and Del­mon Bak­er were seen pay­ing their re­spects.THA Chief Sec­re­tary Orville Lon­don and the Ex­ec­u­tive Coun­cil viewed the body at 8 am.Many To­bag­o­ni­ans told the T&T Guardian that the body should have been in To­ba­go for no less than two days.

Two si­mul­ta­ne­ous To­ba­go-style wake and bon­gos were held last night in Robin­son's ho­n­our at the Rox­bor­ough Court Yard in To­ba­go East, the area he rep­re­sent­ed in Par­lia­ment from 1986 to 1991, and in Cas­tara, where he at­tend­ed the Cas­tara Methodist School.Robin­son was fond­ly known as "the Cas­tara Kid" and "Ah We Boy".

His pub­lic fu­ner­al is sched­uled to start at 9.30 am to­day at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in Ba­co­let, with a pri­vate ser­vice with fam­i­ly and close friends to fol­low at the Scar­bor­ough Methodist Church.At 3.30 pm a fi­nal pro­ces­sion and in­ter­ment will be­gin at the Coast Guard Base at Or­ange Hill Road, be­fore mak­ing its way through Scar­bor­ough and end­ing at the Methodist Ceme­tery in Ba­co­let. A 21-gun salute will bring to end the five-day long na­tion­al cer­e­mo­ny.


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