The Toyota Land Cruiser in which Paramin mother and pre-school teacher Candian Boisson was a passenger on Tuesday was not working properly, her relatives told the media yesterday.
Speaking at their Paramin home yesterday afternoon, Boisson’s two aunts—Bernadette Mark and Pamela Compton—said the mother of two was a wonderful woman. Compton said the Land Cruiser needed work to be done on it but the driver, Troy Letren, would still drive the car despite its mechanical flaws.
Police said the jeep veered off the Morne Coco Road leading into Petit Valley and went down a precipice. Letren, his son, Dillon Fournillier, 25, and Boisson, who is Fournillier’s older sister, sustained severe injuries during the accident.
Boisson suffered a severed arm while her brother received an injury to the chest. Letren also received chest and head injuries. Bernadette added her niece found life to be dragging along and wanted to be re-united with her mother, Mary Plummer, who passed away four years ago.
Both Mark and Compton said as recently as last week Saturday Boisson said she found life was taking too long to be done with her and she wanted to rejoin her mother. Her two daughters—Kavita and Malina—believed their mother was returning home yesterday.
On Tuesday night during the family’s wake, the children, ten and eight respectively, thought it was a party and the younger of the two children even offered to say The Lord’s Prayer so that their mother would return the following day.
As tears filled Mark’s eyes, she said it was hard for the family to tell the children their mother would never return home. She added her niece loved singing and always took care of her grandmother.
At the pre-school where she worked teaching three-and- four-year-olds, Boisson’s colleague, Sharon Romano, said she was loved by her children, some of whom had to be consoled by their parents on learning of her passing.
Romano added that Boisson would sing all day and even in issuing instructions to the children she would sing rather than speak and would never scold the children.
Relatives said they intended to bury Boisson tomorrow after the funeral service at Our Lady of Lourdes, Maraval. The school will remain closed for the remainder of the week, Romano said.