Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

35 first telephone company as well as a large shareholder in the electric company. His son, Charles F. Stollmeyer, built Stollmeyer’s Castle, one of the magnificent seven buildings around the Queen’s Park Savannah. ASGARALLI SYNE I n 1910, Syne started the first bus service (the bus was called Albion), from Siparia to San Fernando and sometimes to St. James in spite of generally poor road conditions at that time. The village where he lived in Siparia is named after him, Syne Village. LOUIS JAY (L. J.) WILLIAMS (1897-1968) I n 1938, he established L.J. Williams Marketing Company, using excellent advertising methods, the first to do so on radio during the cricket match between the M.C.C. and T&T in 1935. LOWELL YEREX H e was the founder of BWIA (British West Indian Airways), now Caribbean Airlines, in 1940.