Hundreds turned out yesterday to bid farewell to the late deputy mayor Robert Williams, who was laid to rest in his hometown of Corentyne at the St Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church.
Williams, 62, died on January 30, at the Caribbean Heart Institute where he had been a patient for several weeks. He had been suffering from a heart condition for some time but his health took a drastic turn for the worse late last year and he had to be rushed to the public institution. There, relatives said, Williams’s health deteriorated and he looked “lower and lower” over time.
Relatives, friends and members of the
