By-Pass Road Project workers mourn colleague’s death
- Injured workers on road to recovery
By Stanford Conway
Editor-in-Chief, SKNVibes.com
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Construction workers in prayer
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BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - IT was a moment of pain and sorrow, as tears flowed from the eyes of a group of men when prayers were offered for their dead colleague and flowers as well as a lighted candle were placed in the general area where he met his demise.
Following the accidental death of Allick Toney, a native of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the injury of Guyanese nationals Mortland Watterton and Ian ‘Shatta’ Warde yesterday morning at a bridge under construction at the West Basseterre By-Pass Road Project, a number of their workmates assembled today [May 15] to pray for both the quick and the dead.
Led in prayer by Dominican-born Mingus Thomas of Tabernacle Village, the construction workers sadly bowed their heads, lit a candle and stuck bundles of flowers in the general area where Tony lost his life.
Thomas, in his prayer, asked God to accept Toney in his loving arms, to hasten the healing process of Watterton and Warde and to
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Ian "Shatta" Warde
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“keep watch and protect all workers on the Project from danger seen and unseen”.
In an effort to glean additional first hand information from the mourning construction workers, SKNVibes was told that “the grief is unbearable at this time and we are at a loss for words to accurately describe what happened yesterday”.
However, on a visit to the Joseph N France General Hospital, this media house found that Warde and Watterton were not on the critical list as was rumoured yesterday, but rapidly recovering from their respective injuries.
Warde suffered injuries to his nose, face and right leg while Watterton has injuries to his chest and lower back. Watterton said his chest is swollen and painful, and he is feeling much better than yesterday “even though I am also feeling pains in my lower back…but I walk and move around unaided”.
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Mortland Watterton
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Both of them are confident of leaving the hospital on or before Sunday and expressed their gratitude for the men who dug into the concrete with their hands to get them out of the rubble.
“It is the Father who had saved us from a concrete death,” Warde said, adding “I think it was a message from God to tell us that He’s with us and that we should always pay homage to Him regardless of circumstances.”
At about 11:30 a.m. yesterday SKNVibes received information that the structure upon which concrete was poured for the construction of a 50-foot wide bridge at the West Basseterre By-Pass Road in the vicinity of the airport had collapsed.
On arrival, the lifeless body of Allick Toney was seen atop a portion of concrete while Watterton and Warde were ambulance-driven to the JNF General Hospital for diagnoses and treatment to their injuries.
Police investigations into the cause(s) of the accident are ongoing.
Laying of flowers for the dead
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