Requiem for three Trinis
Trevor Hackett
Large turnout for Dennis Pantin at UWI.
Photographer Trevor Hackett, who died recently, narrowly escaped death as a three-year old toddler, 60 years ago, when his uncles, Fitzroy and Hollis, saved him from their collapsing house in Point Fortin.
The modest three-bedroom house, which was being renovated, slipped from its supports and collapsed.
Trevor, 63, succumbed to a heart attack on July 5 while recuperating at his daughter Adanna’s home in Brooklyn, New York, from a successful operation to remove a benign brain tumour,
Trevor who won several awards for newspaper photography over the years, was lauded for his achievements abd his personality.
Farewell, Trevor.
Former Ambassador Dr J. O Neil “Scotty” Lewis, who among other things was a former journalist and Industrial Court judge, and University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturer Professor Dennis Pantin, also died recently.
Pantin, a public spirited academic, who was a former Chairman of Regulated Industries Commission and who was deeply committed to constitutional reform, was buried at UWI’s cemetery on Tuesday after a two-hour funeral mass at UWI Spec which was attended by a wide cross-section of Trinidad and Tobago society including members of cabinet, Opposition politicians, prominent trade unionists and fellow academics.
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