It was with much singing and cel­e­bra­tion that ac­ci­dent vic­tim Ke­ston Nicholas was laid to rest on Tues­day.

Nicholas along with his cousin Michael Brad­shaw, 21, and their friends foot­baller Shah­don Win­ches­ter, 27, and hair­dress­er Djenne Hills-Dy­er, 30, per­ished in a fiery crash at the Solomon Ho­choy High­way in Gas­par­il­lo last Thurs­day.

Nicholas’s fu­ner­al took place at the Third Com­pa­ny Lon­don Bap­tist Church in Moru­ga, where the con­gre­ga­tion learnt that he had a strange feel­ing some­thing omi­nous was about to hap­pen days be­fore he died.

Rev Aut­ley Gran­tume, who of­fi­ci­at­ed, cel­e­brat­ed Nicholas’s life with song, dance, and praise to God.

MP for Table­land/Moru­ga Lovell Fran­cis al­so at­tend­ed the fu­ner­al.

His cousins Re­on Rauseo and Shaki­ra Bur­ton de­liv­ered the eu­lo­gy and de­scribed Nicholas as some­one who loved life.

Rauseo said the fu­ner­al of the cel­e­bra­tion was what Nicholas would have want­ed.

“We choose to do what Ke­ston would have want­ed us to do, to cel­e­brate his life. He was the gem of the fam­i­ly and the life of the par­ty. He con­sid­ered it his job to cheer every­one up. He en­sured there was laugh­ter wher­ev­er he was,” Rauseo said.

Bur­ton said Nicholas was al­so called Kes and “Mo­tor­jo­jo.”

“He was the on­ly child of his par­ents. Ke­ston was al­ways an en­ter­tain­er. As a ba­by, he was a chub­by lit­tle fel­la and he loved to dance. Maybe that is why he lost so much weight,” she said as the con­gre­ga­tion laughed and some cried.

Rauseo did an acronym for Nicholas’s name, “K for kind, E for ec­sta­t­ic, easy­go­ing, S for so­cia­ble, spe­cial, self-dis­ci­plined, T for talk­a­tive, tremen­dous, O for op­ti­mistic, out­go­ing N for no­ble,” he said. There was more laugh­ter and ap­plause.

Bur­ton said Nicholas was his moth­er’s eye­ball.

“To Pauline (aunt) he was her sec­ond son. His grand­ma Georgie. Ke­ston loved his bel­ly bad and Grand­ma Georgie al­ways tried to sat­is­fy him. He loved gy­ro and roti. He loved to dress and loved good qual­i­ty clothes. He al­so liked oth­ers look­ing good,” Bur­ton added.

Say­ing Nicholas loved mu­sic, Rauseo said, “ He want­ed to be a record­ing artist. It was his pas­sion for gam­ing that took him to Cou­va on Wednes­day night. Play­ing on his PS4 was his idea of a good lime. He was a good ex­am­ple of a de­cent young man. He brought a lot of joy to his moth­er,” Rauseo said.

They al­so said that Ke­ston seemed to have a pre­mo­ni­tion that some­thing was go­ing to hap­pen to him. “He told his grand­moth­er of the dreams he was hav­ing. Then he said he was not afraid and broke out in singing—There was no city on earth for me to dwell. Be­fore he left, he laid on his moth­er’s lap and kissed her,” he re­called.

The four friends were burnt be­yond recog­ni­tion when the crash oc­curred. At the time of the ac­ci­dent, they were re­turn­ing home af­ter lim­ing in Cou­va. Win­ches­ter was dri­ving while Hills-Dy­er was in the front seat. Po­lice said the ve­hi­cle spun out of con­trol just past the Gas­par­il­lo Fly­over on the Solomon Ho­choy High­way at around 5.10 am and crashed in­to a T&TEC pole.

Po­lice said on im­pact a trans­for­mer fell on the ve­hi­cle and ex­plod­ed, caus­ing it to be­come en­gulfed in flames but this was lat­er de­nied by T&TEC.

Brad­shaw was laid to rest on Mon­day. Hills-Dy­er’s fu­ner­al will take place this week­end while Win­ches­ter’s fu­ner­al will be held some­time next week.