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Ed­ward “Ed­die” Hart, for­mer Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Tu­na­puna, long-stand­ing Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ac­tivist, and na­tion­al­ly recog­nised sports and com­mu­ni­ty leader, passed away yes­ter­day morn­ing, draw­ing trib­utes from across the po­lit­i­cal, civic, and sport­ing land­scape.

Hart’s death has been wide­ly de­scribed as the loss of a fig­ure whose in­flu­ence ex­tend­ed far be­yond elec­toral pol­i­tics, touch­ing gen­er­a­tions through youth de­vel­op­ment, com­mu­ni­ty ad­vo­ca­cy, and sport, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Tu­na­puna and Tacarigua.