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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Two men die in Mosquito Creek crash

...they both loved Christ­mas and were plan­ning to mar­ry their part­ners

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Two men who nev­er met each oth­er but were both ex­cit­ed about Christ­mas and planned to get mar­ried next year to their part­ners, were killed when their ve­hi­cles col­lid­ed at Mos­qui­to Creek, La Ro­maine, ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing.Richard Kevon Bai­ley, 28, al­so know as DJ Zor­ro, of San Fer­nan­do, and Ka­mau Daniel For­rester, 33, an as­sis­tant driller, of La Brea, were both de­scribed as an­gels by their loved ones. The ac­ci­dent took place around 4 am.

Po­lice said Bai­ley was head­ing to­wards San Fer­nan­do in a Nis­san Ti­i­da, while For­rester was head­ing in the op­po­site di­rec­tion in a Nis­san Wingroad.For­rester's car swerved on­to the oth­er lane and crashed in­to Bai­ley's ve­hi­cle.Both men were tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where they were pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

At Bai­ley's Ti­ta­ni­um Av­enue, Union Hall, home, his com­mon-law-wife of two years Asha Hunte, 33, a teacher, said he was sup­posed to have been one of the front line disc jock­eys at the Ja­maican artiste Al­ka­line live con­cert at Pleas­antville Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre last night. She said the pro­mot­er had rent­ed the Ti­i­da which he was dri­ving. Not on­ly was he ex­cit­ed about the con­cert, she said he was al­so elat­ed about the car as the Ti­i­da was his dream car.

Star­ing at the Christ­mas tree in the porch, she said, "He made me put up the Christ­mas tree about two weeks now. He was heav­i­ly in­to Christ­mas."Al­though they had not yet set a date, Hunte said they planned to have a fab­u­lous wed­ding ear­ly next year on Iw­er George's boat and in­vite all their fam­i­ly and friends.

"He want­ed mar­riage, Ti­i­da, ba­by in that or­der," said a tear­ful Hunte who de­scribed him as a jovial, lov­ing per­son who loved his two chil­dren (from a pre­vi­ous re­la­tion­ship) Kendra, eight, and Kay­lon, five. Hunte said she last saw him alive on Fri­day be­fore she left to go to her moth­er's home in Port-of-Spain.Al­so strug­gling to comes to terms with her fi­ance's death, Tri­cia Coop­er John, 36, said For­rester worked with a drilling com­pa­ny in Abu Dhabi, but came home about two weeks ago.

He had planned to go back next Fri­day so he could be home in time for Christ­mas. She said he had missed the last two Christ­mases in T&T.She said they had can­celled their din­ner plans on Fri­day be­cause one of the chil­dren came home sick.She said they have a four-year-old daugh­ter to­geth­er, but he al­so treat­ed her two oth­er chil­dren–ages 14 and eight–from a pre­vi­ous re­la­tion­ship like his own.

John said For­rester felt like "get­ting out of the house" and she did not "sweat it," since it was his last Fri­day home."Jor­dyn (the four-year-old) was the ap­ple of his eye. Be­fore he left around at 11.15 pm on Fri­day, he came back to give her an­oth­er kiss."She said last week Sat­ur­day he had a grand birth­day par­ty for her.Lean­ing on her moth­er El­sa at her Sobo Cir­cu­lar Road, home, a tear­ful John said they were to­geth­er for sev­en years and had planned a "sum­mer wed­ding" next year.

She de­scribed him as a won­der­ful per­son with "the biggest heart ever." For­rester was head­ing back home when the ac­ci­dent took place. The au­top­sies are ex­pect­ed to be done at the San Fer­nan­do hos­pi­tal to­mor­row. Sgt Alexan­der of the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.


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