Family, friends and acquaintances of Jaffa at the Oval chef Joe Brown are taking to social media and other platforms to pay tribute to him. Brown, along with bpTT manager Joanna Banks, were killed when a car ploughed into a group of 14 cyclists along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway earlier Saturday. One of the first persons to do so was Arrive Alive’s Sharon Inglefield. “Our condolences go out to the families of the loved ones lost on the Beetham this morning! Our condolences to the cycling fraternity! We are devastated by today’s events. Our thoughts and prayers are with you,” Inglefield said in a statement. Noting that Brown had sponsored Arrive Alive’s World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims over the years, she said it was “tragic he should lose his life on our roads.” “Our roads continue to be a dangerous environment and we all have a responsibility, more particularly drivers, to respect vulnerable road users like cyclists and pedestrians,” she said. Inglefield said unfortunately, to Arrive Alive’s knowledge, T&T does not have independent trained crash investigators to analyses the types of accidents like the one that occurred today. “However, we have faith that the TTPS will follow the necessary procedures and conduct a thorough investigation to the best of their ability, including breathalysing the driver, and examine all the cameras in the vicinity of this fatal collision,” Inglefield said. This was one of the tributes posted by one chef Joe Brown’s many colleagues. Brown was also an… [Read full story]
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