The pub­lic’s help is be­ing sought to iden­ti­fy a man who slipped and fell in Bel­mont on Sat­ur­day. He lat­er died at hos­pi­tal.

The in­ci­dent which oc­curred at the cor­ner of Erthig Road and Bel­mont Cir­cu­lar Road, around 2 pm on Feb­ru­ary 22, left those who were present shak­en.

Po­lice said the man of African de­scent had just pur­chased a meal at the lo­ca­tion and had turned to leave when he re­port­ed­ly slipped and fell, hit­ting his head on the con­crete walk­way.

As peo­ple near­by rushed to as­sist him, they re­alised he was un­re­spon­sive.

They con­tact­ed the Emer­gency Health Ser­vices who ar­rived and took the man to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where med­ical per­son­nel at­tempt­ed to re­sus­ci­tate him.

How­ev­er, he was pro­nounced dead at 2.23 pm.

Po­lice said res­i­dents said the man was not from the area and ef­forts are un­der­way to iden­ti­fy him and con­tact his rel­a­tives.

Phillip’s ba­by son ar­rives 2 months af­ter fa­tal ac­ci­dent

Two months af­ter Well Ser­vices Ltd em­ploy­ee Pe­te Phillip dis­ap­peared when a rig col­lapsed out at sea, his wife, Can­da­cy Phillip, gave birth to a bounc­ing ba­by boy at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

The ba­by was born one day af­ter the two-month mark of the Well Ser­vices Rig 110 in­ci­dent which claimed Phillip’s life.

Phillip was among 75 per­son­nel aboard the rig owned by Well Ser­vices Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny on De­cem­ber 22 when it col­lapsed.   

Al­though the com­pa­ny has lo­cat­ed his body near the rig, it has not yet been re­trieved from the sea.  

Phillip’s broth­er Elvis said his nephew was born around 4 pm yes­ter­day at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal and both moth­er and ba­by were do­ing well.  He said Can­da­cy was ward­ed on Fri­day and doc­tors and nurs­es were sup­posed to in­duce labour on Sat­ur­day but be­cause of the agony that day rep­re­sent­ed, she re­quest­ed an­oth­er day.

“When she study that yes­ter­day (Sat­ur­day) would make two months since the in­ci­dent she could not deal with that trau­ma every year when that date come and the child birth­day come they have to be think­ing about that whole mem­o­ry,” he said.

Well Ser­vices is await­ing the ar­rival of spe­cialised equip­ment which is ex­pect­ed in ear­ly March be­fore re­sum­ing ef­forts to re­trieve Phillip’s body.