Kei­th An­der­son

To­day marks the sev­enth an­niver­sary of the death of one of Trin­ba­go's finest artists, Dun­stan E Williams (Dew). This gen­er­ous and tal­ent­ed artist who ex­tolled his south­ern roots, died on De­cem­ber 11, 2004 from re­nal fail­ure. He touched many through­out his life, es­pe­cial­ly the dis­abled, with his great hu­mour. Two me­dia per­sons who un­der­stood the psy­che of Tri­nis well were Kei­th Smith and Dew. DEW gave his life to the Guardian, and oth­er en­vi­ron­men­tal caus­es. The slaugh­ter of the leatherback tur­tles had been his pet peeve, and the gen­er­al ap­a­thy to­wards the en­vi­ron­ment. I think it is high time the mem­o­ry of this great artist be ho­n­oured with the Dew En­vi­ron­ment Car­toon Com­pe­ti­tion for young car­toon­ists. This will be a fit­ting trib­ute to the won­der­ful artist who has giv­en us so much joy and laugh­ter.

Dew was well re­spect­ed lo­cal­ly, re­gion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. His achieve­ments are many. One that stands out is his car­toon on the Colum­bus Quin­cen­ten­ni­al which was fea­tured in the car­toon col­lec­tion Po­lit­i­cal Car­toons Of Our Time. How­ev­er, Dew was not too ex­cit­ed to draw po­lit­i­cal car­toons lo­cal­ly. He al­ways felt that there was some­one out there who will get him. Two years ago, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion ho­n­oured him for his ster­ling con­tri­bu­tion.