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Sunday, March 16, 2025

Councillor mourns flag bearer killed by music truck

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Radhica De Silva
12 days ago
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The music truck being towed from Ciparo Street, San Fernando after the accident yesterday.

The music truck being towed from Ciparo Street, San Fernando after the accident yesterday.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Rad­hi­ca de Sil­va 

A day af­ter a mu­sic truck killed San Fer­nan­do res­i­dent and flag bear­er Sel­wyn Lit­tle dur­ing Car­ni­val Mon­day cel­e­bra­tions, Mon Re­pos/Navet Coun­cil­lor Nigel Cout­ti­er ex­pressed sor­row over the in­ci­dent.

In a state­ment, Cout­ti­er de­scribed Lit­tle, al­so known as ‘Short Man,’ as a well-loved fig­ure. Lit­tle, 74, car­ried the flag for Jam­merz In­ter­na­tion­al, a sailor band, and de­spite his age, he ac­tive­ly par­tic­i­pat­ed in the fes­tiv­i­ties.

Cout­ti­er said the tragedy has af­fect­ed not on­ly Lit­tle's fam­i­ly, friends, and loved ones but al­so the en­tire city.

He said Lit­tle was well known dur­ing Car­ni­val.

“His pres­ence dur­ing this time of the year was al­ways up­lift­ing,” Cout­ti­er said. “He played a piv­otal role in mak­ing our Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions what they are. His spir­it, warmth, and ded­i­ca­tion will be great­ly missed by all who knew him," he added.

Cout­ti­er al­so not­ed that the com­mu­ni­ty is strug­gling to process the loss. “As we come to terms with this, my thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones and the en­tire Car­ni­val com­mu­ni­ty,” he said. “We stand to­geth­er in mourn­ing, but we al­so hold on to the many fond mem­o­ries.”

On Mon­day, ACP Wayne Mys­tar said po­lice re­ceived re­ports that the truck’s brakes failed, caus­ing the ac­ci­dent on Cipero Street.

Mys­tar al­so con­firmed that au­thor­i­ties had is­sued a pass for the ve­hi­cle.

"The li­cens­ing of­fice will have to do in­spec­tions to check the brakes," he ex­plained.

Mys­tar urged band­lead­ers to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for en­sur­ing ve­hi­cles are road­wor­thy. “The own­ers of the bands must en­sure that all trucks have the nec­es­sary safe­ty mech­a­nisms,” he said. “In­spec­tion will con­tin­ue over Car­ni­val.”

Six­teen bands are ex­pect­ed to cross the stage on Car­ni­val Tues­day.

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