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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Heartbreak after Ray found dead

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20140711

The search for Ray Kublals­ingh end­ed in heart­break yes­ter­day as the 81-year-old grand­fa­ther of 12 was found dead me­tres away from his Clax­ton Bay home.Yes­ter­day, Kublals­ingh, fa­ther of High­way Re-route Move­ment (HRM) leader Dr Wayne Kublals­ingh, was found by his neigh­bour Ramesh Out­ar while search­ing the hilly ter­rain near his home at Kow­lessars­ingh Road, Union Vil­lage, Clax­ton Bay, around 2 pm.

Kublals­ingh went miss­ing on Tues­day af­ter­noon af­ter he went in­to the forest­ed area to pick cas­sa­va branch­es to plant in his gar­den.Yes­ter­day Shireen, Kublals­ingh's wife of 57 years, had to be sup­port­ed by her chil­dren as she held on to the un­der­tak­er's van car­ry­ing her hus­band's body. She be­gan sob­bing while hold­ing on to the tray of the van be­fore the body was tak­en away by the po­lice es­cort.Rel­a­tives broke down in tears as the van drove off.

A mem­ber of the search par­ty told the T&T Guardian that Kublals­ingh's body, which was ly­ing face up, was found 400 me­tres away from the point where Thurs­day's search had end­ed. He said cor­beaux were seen cir­cling in the area.Kublals­ingh's daugh­ter Judy said the fam­i­ly was not ex­pect­ing the re­tired paint­ing con­trac­tor to be found dead.In fact, she said, ear­li­er in the day the fam­i­ly was dis­cussing the op­tion of turn­ing to Crime Stop­pers for help and had mapped out ar­eas to ex­pand their search ef­forts.

She said the dis­cov­ery of Kublals­ingh's se­mi-de­com­pos­ing body had left the fam­i­ly dis­traught. They could not say what hap­pened to Kublals­ingh since he did not have any se­ri­ous med­ical con­di­tions, though he had had by­pass surgery some years ago. She said the fam­i­ly would have to wait un­til Mon­day, when the au­top­sy was done, to find out how he died.

"We are not sure if he walked out to that area and tried to make it to the high­way. He was strong, he could have done it, and maybe ex­haus­tion got the bet­ter of him. If there was foul play in­volved, we don't know. We will have to wait to see. "Of course we are heart­bro­ken. We were hop­ing for a hap­py out­come and that he would come back with some fun­ny sto­ry."Judy de­scribed her fa­ther as an "in­de­pen­dent thinker" who had a lot of en­er­gy.

"He was a fight­er. He was an in­de­pen­dent thinker, very, very as­tute. He thought out­side the box. He was not con­cerned about what peo­ple said or thought about him. He had deep, deep in­tegri­ty and moral­i­ty and pas­sion," she said.Faith, Kublals­ingh's el­dest daugh­ter, said her fa­ther was sup­posed to trav­el to New Jer­sey this month for her daugh­ter Can­dace's wed­ding."He was so look­ing for­ward to it. He was ex­cit­ed," she said.Fu­ner­al arrange­ments are yet to be fi­nalised.

Yes­ter­day was a bit­ter­sweet day for HRM leader Wayne Kublals­ingh, who achieved vic­to­ry in the High Court.Wayne, who ar­rived short­ly af­ter 4 pm from court in Port-of-Spain, said he was grate­ful for all the sup­port the fam­i­ly had re­ceived from the se­cu­ri­ty forces and peo­ple who helped search for his fa­ther.He ded­i­cat­ed yes­ter­day's court vic­to­ry to his fa­ther.Speak­ing with the me­dia short­ly af­ter win­ning a par­tial vic­to­ry, the younger Kublals­ingh thanked the me­dia and the se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies for help­ing the fam­i­ly search for his fa­ther.

"Many peo­ple do not know this, but he used to get in­to fights on High Street (San Fer­nan­do). His glass­es were bro­ken on the street, not nec­es­sar­i­ly be­cause he ful­ly sup­port­ed a cause, but he sup­port­ed a prin­ci­ple on which I stood, and he ful­ly sup­port­ed his son."I want to pay trib­ute to his life. He lived a full life. He was a man of great ag­gres­sion. He came from the mighty class of the Sikh war­riors–his par­ents were Sikhs–so he was made of great and pow­er­ful stuff."


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