SUPERMAN might be the hottest movie in theatres this summer, but it was a man from Cocorite, not Krypton, who was the real hero at MovieTowne Carousel Park, Port of Spain, on July 20 after saving a child from falling to his death from a Ferris wheel.

After risking his own life for a complete stranger, the man is appealing for people to be the change they desperately want to see in the country.

Videos of the incident on social media showed Akil De Vignes, a 33-year-old electrician and fitness enthusiast of Cocorite, carefully but determinedly scaling to the top of the stopped Ferris wheel some 60 feet into the air to secure a four-year-old boy holding on to the outside of one of the canopies. After reaching the child, De Vignes placed him into the carriage and entered with him to the cheers of onlookers.