Relatives and friends paid tribute as Kevon Scipio, the 14-year-old steel pannist who died tragically on the eve of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary in a freak accident, was yesterday laid to rest.
Scipio, a third form student of the Richard Ishmael Secondary School and member of the Pan Wave Steel Orchestra, one of the groups scheduled to play at the flag-raising ceremony, died after a Canter carrying steel pans crushed him when he fell while attempting to get into the tray of the vehicle.
According to reports that were confirmed by the boy’s mother, the young bass player was attempting to
