Ministry contacts drowned Trini’s family

“I figured they wanted to start to work on locating the body but we have not heard anything from them since then (up to news time),” Pasqual said. Pasqual said the family also learnt from a family friend that a local military extraction team was being sent to St Martin to assist with relief efforts.

“So, we are hoping that he would get some information to assist on the ground about what is happening with the body.” Salvary-Doyle, 64, and her grandson Oliver Robert-Gedio, three, drowned after being pulled into the sea during Irma’s onslaught on St Martin last week.

The woman who lived in San Fernando, was visiting her daughter Daphne (Oliver’s mother), at the time of the tragedy. Daphne lived at 32 A Rue Round The Pond French Quarters.

Daphne was not at home at the time of the incident.

Pasqual said the family was told that when the house that Salvary- Doyle was in began falling apart after Irma made landfall in St Martin, she and the rest of the family decided to leave for another house a short distance away. She said as Salvary-Doyle and her grandson were about to reach the house came in and the waves took them.