Source: sify.com
PORT-OF-SPAIN, March 13, 2010: Pundit Jankie Persad Sharma, a pioneer of the Hindu religion and culture in Trinidad and Tobago and Canada, has died. He started the practice of celebrating Diwali on the Caribbean island, apart from constructing several temples, conducting weddings and organizing trips to India for the diaspora.
The 80-year-old Sharma, who had emigrated to Canada in 1989 on the request of many Trinidadians settled there, passed away in Mississagua in Ontario Thursday.