Dr Michael Baboolal widower of former Barataria/San Juan MP and Senate President Dr Linda Baboolal died in Canada on Friday night.
He died at age 83.
His eldest daughter Maggie Patience told the Sunday Guardian that they are not sure what is the reason for his death but he may have died from heart failure.
“We are not exactly sure what it was but we suspect it was a heart attack. He was in Canada just before Easter of this year. He was visiting a daughter there.”
Patience said like his late wife, he was passionate about T&T’s development and served the country through his profession as a medical doctor and he was also a race car enthusiast.
“His major contribution to T&T was his passion for auto racing, rallying, go-cart racing and so on. He tried to get the governments of all times to invest in that sport and to bring it to a level where it attracted a tourist crowd and it became an industry. He was renowned at Wallerfield. His entire soul was devoted to motor racing and humanity in terms of medicine.”
Patience said the family has only now begun to make plans for the funeral and there are no details as yet.
Michael and Linda had five children, three girls and two boys.
While he excelled in the medical and car racing fields, she excelled in the political field becoming the first woman to hold the position of President of the Senate.
When she died in 2019, he told the media that she had gotten a flu which was a symptom of pneumonia that eventually led to her death.
People took to social media to pay tribute to him.
A nurse Jamelia James, who worked with him, wrote a tribute on her Facebook page: “I can never get accustomed to saying goodbye like this without a tear in my eye, you have not only been my mentor professionally, you had also been a father, a man of words that only a wise man can speak. Today Dr Michael Baboolal you have made your peace with the world. Go soar with the general Dr Linda Baboolal.”
