Dear Editor,
Essentially, this letter is to inform hundreds of his old students, former GNS and Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport colleagues and others of the passing of Ovid O. Isaacs – my closest friend and spirited “spar” since November 1971.
Ovid Owen Isaacs was teacher, art master, tutor (alongside the now Dr James Rose) at the Old Onderneem-ing “Boys School”, editor/ writer at the Education Ministry Curriculum Deve-lopment Centre, captain in the Guyana National Service (GNS), short story writer, steel pan player and the list can go on to indicate the lives he would have touched. He died yesterday morning in the presence of family and his wife in Brooklyn, NY.
Those who knew us would know of the brotherly bond he and I shared for 38 years, sometimes to the exclusion of others in our group(s). He was the big brother I never had at home. These paltry lines can never capture the loss his wife, sons, daughters, relatives and friends – and I – now feel.
But he was a good, humorous human being. A Guyanese who defended Guyana’s name to his last, even whilst vacationing in New York. I’ll find other ways to say farewell this week even as I know his soul will rest confortably. ‘Stand good Ovid’.
Yours faithfully,
Allan A. Fenty
Anand Persaud, is this how you intend to run David de Caires news paper into the ground and then complain of lack of revenue?
This announcement should be appropriately placed in the obituary section of the newspaper. It should be a commercial item and its posting in the letter section is a lost of revenue to the newspaper.
Ms.Ramsawak how rude can you get.
Bis, you are right, right. Very good observation. BTW, that’s how business is run in Guyana. ISNM
I worked under ‘Captain’ Ovaid Isaacs when I graduated from the E.R. Burrowes School of Art and returned to then GNS Printing and Publishing Centre in 1985.
Interesting man. When some members of his staff comlimented him for getthing through with some thing important for the Centre he used to boast about his six stars/shevrons on his shoulders – “why do you think I have these stars for?” – and that wuould make the staff laugh (I think their laugh was as a result of the way he said it and knowing that he got the stars through his academic achievements and not through militry training).
When there was a general muster – we used to look out for our two famous ‘captains’ from GNS P&PC(just because we knew that they could have hardly know how to march, salute or give a proper command properly) – ‘Captain’ Isaacs and his pal ‘Captain’ Changa who headed the media department.
Life well served Captain Isaacs.
Thanks Alan Fenty.
I know that when you rise to the occasion to praise a past friend that friend was a good good person. Such is the faith I have in you over the years.
I know the name and I have a faint recollection of Ovid Isaacs.
May He Rest in Peace.
Aha! Bismattie Ramsawak must be around 45 to 50; I finally figured it out with your blog here; Keep writing; don’t be turned off on these blogs