A gi­ant goes home.

An era in po­lit­i­cal his­to­ry end­ed yes­ter­day with the pass­ing of long­stand­ing leg­end Fer­di­nand “Fer­die” Fer­reira, whose death plunged the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in­to mourn­ing and trig­gered trib­utes from oth­er par­ties.

Ac­cord­ing to PNM of­fi­cials, Fer­reira, 93, died at 6.23 am, fol­low­ing com­pli­ca­tions from a stroke. He had been ward­ed at the San­gre Grande hos­pi­tal a few weeks ago. Fer­reira was then dis­charged but suf­fered an­oth­er episode and was tak­en to the Ari­ma Hos­pi­tal, where he died.