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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Tributes pour in for Roberson

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As fam­i­ly and friends of for­mer na­tion­al Un­der-19 crick­eter Tevin Robert­son pre­pare for his fu­ner­al on Thurs­day, lo­cal crick­et clubs are lin­ing up to pay spe­cial trib­ute.Robert­son's aunt Nicole St John said the ser­vice will take place at the New Cal­vary Taber­na­cle at the cor­ner of Con­tention Road and Amour Street, Princes Town from 1.30 pm.St John said yes­ter­day that al­though the date has been set, rel­a­tives were still fi­nal­is­ing the pro­gramme as sev­er­al of his past clubs and schools have made re­quests to make pre­sen­ta­tions at the fu­ner­al.

She said St Bene­dict's Col­lege, where Robert at­tend­ed school; Moo­sai Sports, his last club and Ever­green Crick­et Club, who he played against, had all planned to pay trib­ute.The promis­ing left-arm fast bowler was killed around 5 am, Sat­ur­day when his Maz­da 323 sta­tion wag­on crashed in­to a fence along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way, flip­ping sev­er­al times be­fore land­ing in­side Petrotrin's com­pound. Re­ports stat­ed that he was re­turn­ing to the T&T Un­der-19 crick­et camp at Tu­na­puna af­ter drop­ping off a fe­male friend in Princes Town.

Robert­son would have turned 20 on April 11 and ac­cord­ing to T&T Crick­et Board pres­i­dent Az­im Bas­sarath, he was on the verge of gain­ing na­tion­al recog­ni­tion with the T&T Red Force.

An au­top­sy by pathol­o­gist Dr Hu­bert Dais­ley at the San Fer­nan­do Mor­tu­ary on Mon­day showed that Robert­son died in­stant­ly af­ter suf­fer­ing a frac­tured spine. Rel­a­tives were told that there were no oth­er bro­ken bones in his body, how­ev­er, the frac­ture caused him to suf­fo­cate. They were al­so told that if he had sur­vived, he would have lived in a co­matose state.


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