Man dies returning from church

THE COUNTRY’S latest road victim Finbar Nanton is an avid Newsday reader who loved to help everyone around him according to the man’s sister Joan Browne. Speaking to Sunday Newsday at her Chowquan Avenue, Diego Martin home, Browne said that they were unaware of Nanton’s death until around 4 pm on Friday afternoon when a family friend heard  news of a road accident along the Diego Martin Highway on Thursday night. Browne said that they started to “add up the facts” and realised that the accident victim could have been their beloved Finbar. She said that the realisation he might be dead came as a great shock to the family. A somber Browne told Sunday Newsday that she thought that he might have been in an accident, but never for once imagined that he might be dead. Nanton, 58, of Long Circular Road, St James lived with his brother Richard and his three nephews Brent, Maurice and Ryan and was well known and liked in the area.

Browne said that Nanton was also favourite in her neighbourhood and would always bring sapodillas from Long Circular for her neighbours. He would also pick mangoes from her yard and carry home to share with his neighbours. Describing Nanton as a person who liked a good lime, Browne said that he would often go to the panyards to listen to some good steelpan music and would often attend meetings held by the Charismatic RC Prayer Group at Emmanuel Community on Rosalind Street. On the day of the accident Nanton spent the day at his sister’s home, after which they attended 6 pm mass at the Nativity Church at Chrystal Stream Road. Following the mass Browne left her brother on the corner of Chrystal Stream road and went home and that was the last time she saw him alive.