For­mer Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) pres­i­dent and Or­der of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ORTT) re­cip­i­ent Mark Lo­quan has passed away.

De­tails of what led to his death have not yet been re­leased but Lo­quan was re­cov­er­ing from brain can­cer surgery.

In a post to his Face­book page this af­ter­noon, Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young said he re­ceived news a short while ago that a son of the soil of Trinidad and To­ba­go, a great pa­tri­ot, Mark Lo­quan, ORTT passed away to­day.

” I con­sid­ered Mark a friend. He was a man that I re­spect­ed and gen­uine­ly en­joyed work­ing with.

Mark and I worked very close­ly to­geth­er on many, many, trans­ac­tions in the gas sec­tor from 2017 un­til he fell ill in Feb­ru­ary of 2024. We brain­stormed to­geth­er and we fought many bat­tles to­geth­er to se­cure a bet­ter fu­ture for Trinidad and To­ba­go.

He was a tal­ent­ed and hum­ble man. Some­one gen­uine­ly con­cerned about our coun­try and ded­i­cat­ed to do­ing his part to make it bet­ter. Whether it was com­pos­ing mu­sic for the pan, strate­giz­ing the fu­ture of our gas in­dus­try or ne­go­ti­at­ing for bet­ter terms and con­di­tions for Trinidad and To­ba­go Mark did it with a lev­el of pas­sion and ex­cel­lence.

I will miss him. Mark rest in eter­nal peace my friend.

To Pat and Evan may God bless you with strength and com­fort at this time of loss. Your hus­band and dad was a good man.”

In 2024 Lo­quan was ho­n­oured for his con­tri­bu­tions in the sphere of na­tion­al ser­vice (en­er­gy and steel­pan in­no­va­tion) as he tear­ful­ly ac­cept­ed the ORTT at Pres­i­dent’s House, St Ann’s.