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