Even though accident survivor Ramdath Ramdeen is still nursing injuries the 38-year-old endured his physical pain yesterday to attend his father’s final rites. Ramdeen, who had a plaster covering the wound on his head and was dressed all in white along with his other male relatives, struggled through his pain to carry the casket bearing his father, Krishendath.
Krishendath and relative, Sham Mohammed, were killed last Saturday on the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway, Freeport, after a truck slammed into their car, sending them into a ditch Ramdeen, who was in the vehicle with his father and Mohammed, was spared injuries as they travelled home from work at the Chaguaramas Broadwalk project.
Their colleagues, Nazar Nazmooden, 28, remained warded at the Intensive Care Unit of the San Fernando General Hospital while Kerron Forbes, 28, is continuing to nurse injuries. As both bodies were placed onto the pyre after pundits performed final rites rain started. Ramdath had to struggle through the pain to bear his father’s coffin. He said he had to be injected with a painkiller before the funeral to ease the physical pain and still had to see doctors for the wound to his head.
On Tuesday, his brother, Sheldon, said while his family would try to make ends meet, begged for help for Mohammed’s family. He said Mohammed, a father of three children — ages 16, eight and five — barely made a living through gardening along the Manzanilla stretch.
