An ac­ci­dent while work­ing led to the death of a 42-year-old Char­lieville man on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

He is the man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Caribbean Chem­i­cal, a com­pa­ny found­ed by his fa­ther, Joe Pires Snr in 1966.

Since gain­ing in­de­pen­dence in 1962, Trinidad and To­ba­go have pro­duced sev­er­al world-class ath­letes and suc­cess­ful teams. These are some of our out­stand­ing sport­ing am­bas­sadors from yes­ter­year:

As T&T marks its 63rd year of in­de­pen­dence, the rhythms of ca­lyp­so and so­ca will take cen­tre stage in a spe­cial trib­ute con­cert ho­n­our­ing two of the art­form’s tow­er­ing fig­ures—Em­rold Phillip, bet­ter known as the Peo­ple’s Ca­lyp­son­ian Bro Valenti­no, and the late Ce­cil Hume, the trail­blaz­ing Mae­stro.

The can­cel­la­tion of the In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade dis­ap­point­ed those who saw the pa­rade as a ges­ture of pride in the coun­try’s na­tion­hood. There will be oth­er, less grand and more com­mu­ni­ty-ori­ent­ed cel­e­bra­tions. The can­cel­la­tion gen­er­at­ed mut­ed dis­cus­sion about how best to cel­e­brate In­de­pen­dence Day, re­sult­ing in no se­ri­ous ex­plo­ration of the al­ter­na­tives. Any In­de­pen­dence an­niver­sary is an op­por­tu­ni­ty for ma­ture re­flec­tion, but more im­por­tant­ly, to chart a course to­ward a more suc­cess­ful fu­ture.