The Tribune

By AVA TURNQUEST

Tribune Staff Reporter

aturnquest@tribunemedia.net

FNM Deputy Leader Loretta Butler-Turner yesterday hailed Carlton Cartwright as a stellar student with great potential.

Mrs Butler-Turner lamented the 11-year-old’s untimely death during her contribution in the House of Assembly yesterday.

She said: “It’s such a loss to our community of South Long Island, he was certainly one of those stellar students who we were looking for great and exciting things from. He had wonderful potential.”

Carlton died of an asthma attack less that two weeks after he sang the National Anthem during a National Independence Flag-raising ceremony in Long Island.

His sudden death shocked family members who recalled his proud participation in the ongoing celebrations across the islands to mark the 40th Anniversary of Independence.

In an interview with The Tribune, Carlton’s mother Nicolle Cartwright said the Morrisville Primary School graduate had blossomed into a mature and respectful individual.

The night before his death early Saturday morning on June 22, Mrs Cartwright said Carlton sang his two younger sisters to sleep.

She said: “Like other siblings they had their moments where they would fight and argue.

“But this time it was like he just blossomed into this big brother that they needed. He just advanced, it was unbelievable.

“One of the last songs that he and I sang together when I was over there last week was ‘Take Me To The King’, and I was telling him CJ that’s a big song, I can’t even get the ending part of that song right. But when we reached to the ending part and he took it from there he did it and I couldn’t do it.

“These were some of my last moments with him. My baby is at peace, there is no question about it.”