Ryan Ba­choo

Lead Ed­i­tor - News­gath­er­ing

ryan.ba­choo@cnc3.co.tt

“I want to make more!” Those were the words of cen­te­nar­i­an Nathaniel Be­har­ry as he cel­e­brat­ed his 100th birth­day on Au­gust 28. “I don’t know how long, that man up dey have to tell me,” he con­tin­ued point­ing above. Fond­ly called “Das­tan”, the Grena­di­an na­tive's chil­dren host­ed a 100th birth­day cel­e­bra­tion at his Tamana home.

Sophia Kennedy, In­spec­tor I of the Di­vi­sion of Age­ing joined the cel­e­bra­tion ask­ing him what is the best ad­vice he has for this gen­er­a­tion to live a long and healthy life. In his re­sponse, he said “chil­dren ought to al­ways do good.”

“Breath­ing fresh air and drink­ing lots of wa­ter” are keys which Be­har­ry at­trib­ut­es to his longevi­ty.

Be­har­ry in­di­cat­ed that he worked as a Sawyer and re­called plant­i­ng nut­meg trees with his fa­ther on their land and that his pas­sion for agri­cul­ture con­tin­ued when he mi­grat­ed to Trinidad in 1958. “I worked on an es­tate and I cul­ti­vate the es­tate for the own­er. It didn’t have a fig tree, it didn’t have a co­coa tree and I came and I worked for the own­er and I cul­ti­vate the land,” said Be­har­ry.

The fa­ther of five, grand­fa­ther to 10, and great-grand­fa­ther of three al­so in­di­cat­ed that he met his wife Theodo­ra in Tamana. They got mar­ried in 1963 and lived to­geth­er for 55 years un­til she passed away in 2018. He fur­ther added that the most im­por­tant les­son he has learned is to work hard for what you need and what you want, adding that he cur­rent­ly spends his time re­lax­ing, lis­ten­ing to mu­sic, watch­ing tele­vi­sion, and do­ing small ex­er­cis­es.