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St.John, Antigua – 21 August 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Exterior of Skullgerry bar and café
2. Patrons of Skullgerry at bar
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Clive Thomas, boat painter and friend of Recaldo Thomas.
“Last season he was here and we were hanging together, I was at his house with him as well so it is kind of like really, really sad that he had to go this way. My condolences goes out to all his family. Gone but not forgotten, you know? He was my boy, my friend.”
4. Tables at bar
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Hughes, mariner:
“I think I am feeling the same way that all his friends are feeling, it is very hard. I got friends crying on WhatsApp messages and most of the people that he knows are my friends as well, you know what I mean?”
6. Exterior of Skullgerry bar and café
STORYLINE:
Friends of Renaldo Thomas paid tribute to him on Thursday at a bar where he socialised in the Caribbean Island of Antigua.
Thomas, known as ‘Rick’ was working as a chef and died after the luxury yacht he worked on sank off the island of Sicily.
His body was recovered Monday where the superyacht Bayesan, owned by the British tech magnate, Mike Lynch, sank during a freak storm.
Thomas was the first confirmed death from the accident.
Cooking for Lynch was supposed to be one of his last jobs before retiring, his cousin, David Isaac, told The Associated Press.
Thomas was born in Canada, but he visited his parents’ homeland of Antigua as a child and moved permanently to the tiny eastern Caribbean island in his early 20s.
Best known as ‘Rick’ he started working as a bartender in Jolly Harbor so he could be close to the sea, his second love after cooking, Isaac said.
Friends and patrons gathered at the Skullgerry bar to honor Thomas, where he used to socialize with other harbor workers whenever he was on land.
“He was my boy, my friend – respect’ said Clive Thomas, a boat varnisher who knew the chef for 30 years.
The Italian coast guard said that the superyacht had a crew of 10 people and 12 passengers. Civil protection officials said they believe the ship was struck by a tornado over the water, known as a waterspout, and sank quickly.
Mike Lynch’s body was recovered Thursday.
He had been celebrating his recent acquittal on fraud charges with his family and the people who had defended him at trial in the United States.
AP video shot by Marlon Jeffers
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