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Rodney Wilkes
« on: March 24, 2014, 05:53:40 PM »
Trinidad and Tobago's first Olympic medalist Rodney Wilkes died today. He was 89.   
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Re: Rodney Wilkes
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2014, 06:26:48 PM »
Ah shucks. Had to happen sometime. RIP.
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Re: Rodney Wilkes
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2014, 07:46:21 PM »
RIP trendsetter!
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Re: Rodney Wilkes
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2014, 08:47:13 AM »
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/TTs-first-Olympic-medallist-dies-252093071.html

Rip sir i hope one day you get the reconigtion you rightly deserve
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Re: Rodney Wilkes
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2014, 03:42:50 PM »
A TT legend.

Rip

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Re: Rodney Wilkes
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2014, 08:14:22 PM »
Is that not the same man SWO did a fundraiser/food-drive  for a few years back?
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Re: Rodney Wilkes
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2014, 09:30:33 PM »
Quote from: Dutty on March 26, 2014, 08:14:22 PM
Is that not the same man SWO did a fundraiser/food-drive  for a few years back?

Yeh, we pay him ah visit and deliver some food items.
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Re: Rodney Wilkes
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2014, 08:45:58 AM »
Sports Ministry to help Wilkes’ family

Thursday, March 27 2014

Newsday

THE FAMILY of late national weightlifting great Rodney Wilkes is expected to receive assistance from the Ministry of Sport, with regards to his funeral expenses.

So said Ashwin Creed, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Sport, in a brief telephone interview yesterday. “The Minister (Anil Roberts) instructed that we assist the family,” said Creed, “we’re talking with the family to ascertain what they want exactly.”

Creed added, “we’re hoping by (today) to get full details.” Wilkes, Trinidad and Tobago’s first Olympic medallist (silver in the featherweight class in the 1948 Games in London, England) died at the San Fernando General Hospital on Monday, at the age of 89.
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