Se­ri­ous con­cerns are now be­ing raised as to what re­al­ly hap­pened last week Sat­ur­day along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) in El Do­ra­do where Leroy Cal­liste, 64, was fa­tal­ly struck by a white Lexus mo­tor car.

Cal­liste was a Di­rec­tor at DFL Caribbean Hold­ings Lim­it­ed. He al­so held the po­si­tion of a con­sul­tant (from 2009 to up un­til his death) at RBC Fi­nan­cial (Caribbean) Lim­it­ed. He was al­so a for­mer Group Fi­nan­cial Comp­trol­ler at RBC Fi­nan­cial (Caribbean) Lim­it­ed (1995-2009) and for­mer­ly the Fi­nan­cial Comp­trol­ler at the First Cit­i­zens Bank (1977-1995). He was al­so the Trea­sur­er and Coun­cil Mem­ber of the T&T Group of Pro­fes­sion­al As­so­ci­a­tions Lim­it­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, is­sued in a re­lease by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, Cal­liste was killed at about 5.45 pm on Oc­to­ber 6 as he was rid­ing his bi­cy­cle along the PBR in the vicin­i­ty of WASA, El Do­ra­do when he was struck by a white Lexus mo­tor ve­hi­cle. Po­lice, how­ev­er, chose to with­hold the iden­ti­ty of the Lexus’ dri­ver. The po­lice re­port stat­ed that the dri­ver of the Lexus told po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors that he was pro­ceed­ing east along the PBR be­hind a small red band maxi taxi when on reach­ing the vicin­i­ty of WASA, the maxi taxi pulled to the left on­to the shoul­der and stopped.

The dri­ver al­leged that as he was about to pass the maxi taxi, Cal­liste rode out from in front of the maxi taxi on­to the lane and “came in­to con­tact with his ve­hi­cle.”

Cal­liste died on the scene. The re­port added that the dri­ver told po­lice that the maxi taxi then drove off.

How­ev­er, in­for­ma­tion reach­ing the T&T Guardian sug­gest­ed that there seems to be a “ma­jor cov­er-up” in­to what hap­pened that day. Pho­tographs tak­en from the scene that evening showed Cal­liste’s body in­side the Lexus ve­hi­cle.

It is be­lieved that up­on im­pact, al­leged­ly by full speed, caused Cal­liste to be thrown in the air and land­ing on the Lexus’ wind­shield smash­ing it and with him col­laps­ing in­to the ve­hi­cle. Cal­liste sus­tained se­vere in­juries to the head, tor­so, arms and legs. He al­so sus­tained mul­ti­ple bro­ken bones. In that said press re­lease is­sued the TTPS called on eye-wit­ness­es “to come for­ward and iden­ti­fy a red band maxi taxi and its dri­ver, which left the scene of a road traf­fic ac­ci­dent.”

How­ev­er, sources close to Cal­liste, who wished strict anonymi­ty, said that they strong­ly be­lieve that it is a ma­jor cov­er-up and there is “rea­son” why the iden­ti­ty of the Lexus was not dis­closed. “It seems as though the dri­ver may be some­one of im­por­tance or con­nect­ed too by re­la­tion to some­one of im­por­tance.

“We, the close friends of Leroy, who was a com­plete gen­tle­man to all, are al­so ques­tion­ing if that dri­ver had per­mis­sion to be on the PBR. We be­lieve that there were many more eye­wit­ness­es and we want every­one to come for­ward. We are look­ing for jus­tice,” one of Cal­liste’s friends said.

Cal­liste’s fu­ner­al will be held on Mon­day at 11 am at the St Aidan’s An­gli­can Church, East­ern Main Road, Arou­ca, fol­lowed by a pri­vate cre­ma­tion. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion about the in­ci­dent is asked to con­tact the po­lice at 999, 555, 911 or the near­est po­lice sta­tion.