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Friday, July 11, 2025

Wife grieves for Tobago’s 1st COVID-19 fatality- 'I didn’t get to say goodbye'

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The wid­ow of To­ba­go’s first COVID-19 vic­tim says her hus­band died and was buried by the State be­fore she got a chance to say good­bye.

In an in­ter­view with CNC3 last night, Sher­ma Greg, said her hus­band Bernard was the love of her life and to­day she is lost with­out him, es­pe­cial­ly be­cause she did not get to be at his fu­ner­al at the Buc­coo Pub­lic Ceme­tery hours lat­er af­ter his death at the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Sun­day.

She de­scribed him as a strong man who was 69 years with no un­der­ly­ing health con­di­tions.

“He would have been 70 on Christ­mas Day, he was a Christ­mas ba­by, he nev­er had any­thing, noth­ing,” she said.

“I didn’t even get to say good­bye to my hus­band.”

Greg said she was ill days be­fore and start­ed vom­it­ing while try­ing to shell peas be­fore she passed out. It was Greg who changed her clothes and took her to the hos­pi­tal, where she re­mained at hos­pi­tal for five or six days be­fore be­ing dis­charged.

“Af­ter they re­lease me from the hos­pi­tal, now my hus­band have a home in Mo­ri­ah, he build a home in Mo­ri­ah, he told my daugh­ter-in-law to bring me home to Hope, which is one of his hous­es.

“I told him, I call him Dad­dy, I told him ‘dad­dy, I would like to go home and see home, is days now I ain’t see home in a while’,” she re­called.

“He did car­ry me home a morn­ing ear­ly. I gone, I see my fowl and them. I no­tice that he ly­ing down, ly­ing down.

“Any­way, I tell him I not feel­ing com­fort­able (to leave) cause here want to put to or­der, we leave to come and he stop and start to vom­it like he had the cold.”

She said they went to their home in Hope, where his broth­er and sis­ter came to vis­it with them. It was then that he too com­plained of not feel­ing well.

“And we start to talk about doc­tor,” Sher­ma said.

She said her hus­band left home with a cold and a bel­ly pain.

“My daugh­ter-in-law took him to the doc­tor and he end up in the hos­pi­tal and I nev­er see him again.

“He told her don’t bring me up there just take KFC for me. We didn’t know it was dead he was go­ing and dead,” she said.

She added: “They tell me Pa­pa dead, well the world went.”

The next morn­ing came word that he was be­ing buried by the Gov­ern­ment and that on­ly five mem­bers were al­lowed to at­tend.

“Well I want to know how they bury­ing him and I don’t see him,” she said.

How­ev­er, the wid­ow is con­vinced that her strong hus­band was in­fect­ed at the hos­pi­tal.

“I feel he get it in the hos­pi­tal be­cause if he had I would have get it. They bury him too quick,” she said.

Greg was the coun­try’s sev­enth over­all COVID-19 fa­tal­i­ty.

The Min­istry of Health yes­ter­day an­nounced an eighth death overnight Sun­day, an­oth­er el­der­ly per­son with pre-ex­ist­ing med­ical con­di­tions.

In its late night an­nounce­ment, the min­istry said 866 peo­ple had been test­ed for the virus and 105 peo­ple were found to be pos­i­tive.

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