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Karen Nunez-Tesheira getting onto the compound of SAPA for the state funeral for Basdeo Panday.
Karen Nunez-Tesheira getting onto the compound of SAPA for the state funeral for Basdeo Panday.

Former Trinidad Senate President jumps railing to get into Panday funeral service

(Trinidad Express) Former President of the senate Timothy Hamel Smith and former PNM Government minister Karen Nunez Tishera jumped the railing to get onto the compound of the Southern Academy of Performing Arts to try to sit in the auditorium for the funeral service of the late Basdeo Panday.

Sushilla Deonarine-Singh pays her last respects

Panday to be laid to rest today

(Trinidad Express) While there will be leading political figures in attendance at the state funeral for the late former prime minister Basdeo Panday today, none of them will be speaking at the service.

 PATRIOTIC FAREWELL: The casket of former prime minister Basdeo Panday, draped in the national colours of red, white and black, is transported to the Red House in Port of Spain under military escort for a public viewing of his body yesterday. —Photo: ISHMAEL SALANDY

Crowds line streets to view body of former Trinidad PM

(Trinidad Express) Time seemed to have stood still as members of the Defence Force bore the body of the late former prime minister Basdeo Panday in a coffin, draped in the national colours of red, white and black, through the streets of the capital city of Port of Spain, yesterday.

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