Tribute

RIP soldier, I met you in Havana libre Hotel for the very first time in 1989, when you came to Cuba to pursue Trade Union studies and Political Scienc...

by Simeon Greene Before I knew that I would be the one to do the Eulogy for Allan, I had already written a tribute to him, which I had proposed to sha...

Glowing tributes were paid on Monday of this week to the life and work of one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most outstanding musicians, Roy Cape. The occas...

Ann, as we knew her, joined our form at the Girls’ High School in 1963. We moved up in the forms to Six A and left in 1969. We were the inseparable fo...

by Jeff James I came to know Mrs Jestina Charles about 40 years ago when I assumed the post of Director of Cansave in St Vincent and the Grenadines (l...

We, the University of the West Indies (UWI) class of 1998, wish to express our sincerest and deepest condolences to the family of our beloved Amrie wh...

by Dr Marise Butler Amrie Susan Morris Patterson was born on April 14, 1973 to Mrs Sylvia Morris McCalla and Jeremoth Burke. She was the only child of...

by Dr Alisa Alvis There is so much that is not explained to early-career professionals about the world of work and is left purely to experience. This ...

by Luke Browne I am grateful for this opportunity to say a few words of tribute at this homegoing service for our dearly departed sister Joyce Saunder...

delivered by Omari Seitu Williams (Nephew) It was in one year into the 2nd World War when Louise Adina Toney was born on the 24th June 1940. Her fathe...

Excerpts from the tribute by the SVG Girl Guide Association to Louise Adina Toney nee Dick by Laura Browne Briefly, we recount her Guiding history – a...

from: Special Olympics SVG Ercelle Thomas, née John, was an invaluable member of the Board of Directors of Special Olympics St Vincent and the Grenadi...

by Raymond England Sometimes in life you meet someone who knows you better than you know yourself. Sometimes in life you meet someone who believes in ...

by Andrea Bowman My earliest remembered memories of my Aunt, as opposed to someone else’s planted memories, place me walking down Mc Kies Hill with he...

Mrs Peggy Ince-Hull was a pleasant, soft-spoken lady with class and integrity, one whom we have never seen gotten angry or even raised her voice but w...

Written by her daughter Monique Hull and delivered at the funeral by niece Dornette Hull Peggy Anita Ince entered the world on July 5, 1939, the third...

Happy memories and sad moments sprinkled with a bit of humour. This is a fitting description of the tribute delivered by the friend of the late Garth ...

WOW! WHAT A MAN! Words echoed by every tribute giver, by the former and current parliamentary Representatives of the Constituency of West St George th...

by Andrea Bowman I have known Garth since I was 14 years old. He was 16. There was Sports Practise on Saturday mornings. Garth was all events for Reev...

Cousin we saw all that you did. You, like a Colossus, took on tasks that other mortals would shrink from. You took on the Big jobs that your Nation ne...

by Susette May Administrative Officer, CWSA I had the privilege of knowing Mr Garth Saunders for over 18 years when he re-joined the CWSA as General M...

by Joel Providence Garth Saunders was born into a very fine family steeped in Methodist values. I am glad that I got to know the entire Saunders famil...

by Shaun Saunders Abraham Maslow, famous American Psychologist once said, “What a man can be, he must be. A musician must make music, an artist must m...

On behalf of the alumni of the class of 1983, civil engineering department, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (abbreviated RUM in Spanish), I offe...

by Samantha Robertson Today we are here to celebrate Mother, our mother, Dr Shirley Robertson - wife of the beloved Emery, mother of Sandra, Samantha ...

by Professor Vijay Naraynsingh I first met Dr Cecil Cyrus at a medical conference in St Lucia, April 1975. I was an intern and he a well-established C...

by Dr Malcolm Grant For the greater part of the last four decades, I’ve had the opportunity and privilege to rub shoulders with some of the Caribbean’...

by Patrick Grenier de Lassagne I was born from an unknown father. By an extraordinary chance, offered by Ken Boyea, I finally met my father in London....

by Andrea Keizer Bowman On learning of the passing of ‘Mr Cyrus’, my second message to his first child Helen in as many days, read as follows: ‘I do l...

by Dr Abdon DaSilva Regency Park, Christ Church, Barbados I first met Mr Cyrus in 1973 when I chose to do my three-month Elective Clerkship at the Gen...

by Dr Margaret-Ann Eustace I was privileged to have met Sir Cecil at the age of twelve soon after his return to work in St Vincent. Privileged also to...

by Dr Garrey Michael Dennie In July 1974, when I was barely fourteen years old, Dr Cyrus saved my life. And by then, he had already established himsel...

Mr Dominic Sprott Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon It is with sadness that I write this tribute to Sir Arthur Cecil Cyrus, a great man and so...

by Dr David A Joyette Don Mills, Ontario Arthur Cecil Cyrus lived a truly long and wonderful life, for it was done in the service of others. He unders...

by Junior Bacchus I am able today to walk today as a consequence of Dr Cecil A Cyrus’s medical ability and his care and love for his patients. In July...

Sir Cecil Cyrus introduced the sport of squash to St Vincent and the Grenadines, an act that changed the lives of many for the better. We, the members...