Tears, flowers, pan, dance for Asami

The friends yesterday observed a minute’s silence for 41 victims of last week’s earthquake in Japan, even as they mourned Asami.

Asami was remembered in pan, poetry and dance. The Codrington Pan Family played Michael Jackson’s “You are not alone” as a tribute to quake-hit Japan, “Some Day” composed by Cary Codrington Jnr was a dedication to Asami, plus Asami’s own composition, “Dreaming Girl”. Asami’s pan student Naomi Kyanbero, touched hearts both by her formal address and her tearful and impassioned bare-foot dance of remembrance to Asami.

To the steel notes of “You are not alone”, Naomi did a mournful dance in which she held high a bouquet of flowers which she later placed among other floral tributes and candles at the base of a tree where Asami’s body was found.

Also present were members of Phase II and Silver Stars Steel Orchestras, EU local head Danielle Tramacere, attorney Martin Daly and wife Kavita Daly, Pan Trinbago PRO Michael Joseph and pan aficonados Francis Joseph and Kim Johnson. To date, no arrest has been made.