Veteran media videographer dies

Sascha Wil­son

Vet­er­an me­dia video­g­ra­ph­er Phil Brit­ton has died.

Brit­ton passed away on Thurs­day night in the In­ten­sive Care Unit at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where he had been ad­mit­ted since Sun­day.

His pass­ing has left col­leagues across the me­dia fra­ter­ni­ty, fam­i­ly and friends mourn­ing the loss of a ded­i­cat­ed jour­nal­ist. Known for his com­mit­ment to his job, cov­er­ing sto­ries of na­tion­al, hu­man and cul­tur­al in­ter­est, par­tic­u­lar­ly in south Trinidad, Brit­ton con­tin­ued to work de­spite long-stand­ing health chal­lenges.

Even while bat­tling an au­toim­mune con­di­tion, he re­mained ac­tive in the field, de­ter­mined not to al­low his ill­ness to de­fine him.

Brit­ton al­so spent sev­er­al years work­ing at TV6, where he cov­ered sto­ries in south Trinidad.

Many of his col­leagues and friends re­mem­bered him as pro­fes­sion­al, con­sid­er­ate, deeply spir­i­tu­al and de­vot­ed to his fam­i­ly.

Ex­tend­ing deep­est con­do­lences to his fam­i­ly, friends and col­leagues, TTT Ltd, in a trib­ute, said, “TTT Ltd’s very own Phil Brit­ton, a long-serv­ing cam­era­man based in south Trinidad, has died. Phil was known not just for his tech­ni­cal skill, but for a tire­less work eth­ic that saw him through decades of re­port­ing.”

Brit­ton was 57 years old and a fa­ther of one.