Mustique Airways employee is third road fatality

Thirty-year-old Andre Bowman, pilot with Mustique Airways and a resident of Kingstown Park, died on the spot after the vehicle he was travelling in went over an embankment in the Prospect area last Sunday evening.{{more}}

According to Police, Andre and his 23-year-old brother Felix were the only occupants in the vehicle, PK 396, when the accident occurred around 7:27 p.m.

Police sources also told SEARCHLIGHT that the vehicle was travelling into Kingstown.

Felix, up to yesterday, was a patient at the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, nursing injuries to his left arm and head.

A distraught mother, Ann-Marie Agnes Bowman, told SEARCHLIGHT that the news of her son’s death was very shocking.

“It is unbelievable and it is very hard when mothers have to be burying their children,” the grieving woman said, before she broke down.

Other family members said that the tragic news came as a shock.

Monica Clarke, sister of the deceased, described Andre as simple, down to earth and loving, adding that she had a good relationship with her brother.

The tragic news also affected friends as well, one being Barvin Ollivierre, who said that he was chatting with Felix on Saturday and the two were expected to meet up yesterday in Kingstown.

“And to hear today that he and his older brother were in an accident, it was like, it was almost like a joke…I said nah, I can’t believe,” he said.

Ollivierre also commented on the passing of Andre, saying that he was a good guy.

“He was a good father, a man to his woman, because they were together for years…it came as a real shock.”

Anwar Alexander said that he had known Andy, as he was known, and that he was like a brother.

“He was there for me when my father died,” Alexander said, adding that he (Andre) was one of the few people who embraced him as his own family.

“I still can’t believe that Andy is gone, I still can’t believe that he is gone,” he said.

This was going to be one of those tragic incidents that was going to be difficult to move on from, Alexander told SEARCHLIGHT.

“Because Andy was one of those pillars that you could depend on. You can’t really go on without that,” he said.

Bowman’s death now brings the number of road fatalities for the year to three. (DD)