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BY
ANIKA GUMBS-SANDIFORD
FATHER’s Day will never be the same for Khemraj Dolsingh.
He attended the funeral of his only child yesterday.
Unable to walk, Dolsingh left the San Fernando General Hospital
in a wheelchair yesterday, to bid good-bye to his five-year-old
son, Kyle, who was crushed to death when a plastic water
tank fell on him.
The incident occurred last Sunday, at the family’s
Quinam Road, Siparia home.
Blaming himself for the mishap which occurred while he was
attaching fittings to the 450 gallon water tank, Dolsingh
wailed in anguish when he saw his son’s body.
“No,
No,” Dolsingh cried as he caressed his son’s face,
placing a gold chain around his neck. The child’s body
lay in a white-and gold-casket adorned with roses, a post
card and his favourite toy truck.
Consoling her husband, wife Neisha, 22, kissed and hugged
Dolsingh, wiping away his tears, but the distraught man
was inconsolable.
In tribute, pupils of Penal Presbyterian pre-school sang
church choruses and the “I love you” song from
the children’s TV show Barney, for their classmate.
Kyle was to attend the San Francique Hindu School in September.
Pundit Anil Singh, who officiated at service, urged the
gathering to seek solace through prayer.
“Only
prayer can help. On a day when children worship their fathers,
this child is not here to do that. He did nothing in life
to go this way,” Singh said.
Following the service, Kyle was cremated at the Shore of
Peace.
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