Isle was always ‘cool and calm’

Fifty-eight-year-old Errol Isle, known affectionately as “Song,” was des-cribed as a well-liked, down-to-earth, respected member of the Couva community. The welder/pipefitter reportedly fell some 65 feet while working on a platform at the Methanol Plant, Point Lisas Industrial Estate, on Friday evening. According to po-lice reports, at ap-proximately 2.45 pm, Isle, of Dove Avenue, Point Lisas Gardens, Couva slipped and fell when a platform he was standing on gave way. He was subsequently rushed to the Couva District Hospital, but died at approximately 3.10 pm.

When Sunday Newsday visited the grieving man’s family yesterday, Sherwin Isle, 27, remembered his father as a “cool and calm” person who had only started working at the methanol plant last Monday. “We got a message from some of his co-workers at the plant saying that he had been involved in an accident, and that was it. We didn’t know how bad it was until we went to the Couva hospital and a nurse said he had died,” he said, adding the family was yet to be contacted by either officials of the methanol plant or the sub-contractor who had employed his father. “My father treated everyone with respect and was well liked by everyone,” he said, adding that his father, a born and bred son of Marabella, had moved to the Couva suburb some 12 years ago. The funeral is tentatively scheduled  for Tuesday. Meanwhile, investigations are said to be continuing into the circumstances surrounding Isle’s death.