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Engineer, businessman, composer and Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago recipient, Mark Loquan, had his last round of applause on Monday, when he was laid to rest at the St. Finbar's RC Church.
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00:00Businessman, composer and Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago recipient Mark Loquan
00:05had his last round of applause to Dee when he was laid to rest at the St. Finbar's R.C.
00:11Chooch.
00:12A few dozen family members, close friends and colleagues turned out for the intimate
00:16service today.
00:18Also in attendance were Prime Minister Stuart Young and Attorney General Camille Robinson
00:22Regis.
00:23The media was asked not to film family members, however our cameras did capture the following
00:28tributes.
00:30We're doing too much and we really need to drop off some stuff.
00:34And he looked at us and he said, drop off what?
00:39He said, if you could find something that we are doing that is not valuable enough to be
00:42done, then we can drop it off.
00:44Mark loved Trinidad and Tobago with a passion.
00:50From coast to coast and all in between.
00:53He worked tirelessly to ensure that the contribution he made, no matter how big or how small, whether
01:04it was through energy or through arts and culture, it was done in service of making Trinidad and
01:12Tobago better.
01:13We have lost Mark way too soon.
01:17But I thank God for the gift of his friendship.
01:21Dying well is the final act of living well.
01:29Mark lived well.
01:33He lived with purpose, with humility, with generosity.
01:40He gave of himself without reserve to his family, to country and to his craft.
01:48And when death came, it found him not clinging, but trusting.
01:56Loquan, 63, died on April 6th, 14 months after he was diagnosed with brain cancer.
02:05Fed up of being treated with scorn by the politicians elected to represent them, a group of.
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