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The Prime Minister signs the condolence book on Thursday at the Assembly Legislature Building in Scarborough, Tobago opened in honour of former prime minister Basdeo Panday, who died on Monday. -Photo courtesy Assembly Legislature
Trinidad and Tobago mourns the deaths of the country's fifth prime minister Basdeo Panday and its first Tobago House of Assembly chief secretary Hochoy Charles.
Panday, 90, died in the US on January 1, and Charles, 77, in Tobago on December 31.
Newsday shares highlights of Charles's funeral and the signing of condolence books in honour of him and Panday at venues in Tobago on January 4.
Dignitaries also signed condolence books in honour of Panday in Trinidad.
San Fernando mayor Robert Parris waits his turn to sign the condolence book in memory of Basdeo Panday at City Hall in San Fernando on Thursday. - Photo by Angelo Marcelle
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Ken Gordon signs the condolence book for Basdeo Panday, his former ministerial colleague in the NAR government, at the rotunda, Red House, on January 4. - Photo courtesy the Office of the Parliament
Chairman of the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation Josiah Austin signs the condolence book for Basdeo Panday on Thursday at the corporation’s office - Photo by Roger Jacob
The Prime Minister signs the condolence book on Thursday at the Assembly Legislature Building in Scarborough in memory of former THA chief secretary Hochoy Charles, seen in the framed photo on the table. - Photo courtesy Assembly Legislature
Mourners at the funeral on Thursday of former THA chief secretary Hochoy Charles at the Shaw Park Complex in Tobago. - Photo courtesy THA
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"A nation remembers Charles, Panday"