Hundreds bid farewell to Trevor Rose

Feb 04, 2014 Sports

Hundreds bade farewell to the former Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) President, costume and fashion designer, Trevor Rose yesterday at a Funeral Service at the Olivet Seventh Day Adventist Church in Durban Backlands.
Stakeholders from a wide cross-section of society, including the corporate community and sports enthusiasts, paid tribute to the late Rose, who was gunned down more than a week ago outside the Eccles Community on the East Bank Demerara carriageway.
Surprisingly, more basketball players and clubs in Georgetown were not

Pall bearers carry the body of former GABA President, costume and fashion designer, Trevor Rose (Inset) yesterday following his Funeral Service at the Olivet Seventh Day Adventist Church at Durban Backlands.

visibly present at the moving Funeral Service. Individuals from the sports, entertainment and fashion industries paid their final respects to the 33 year old Rose.
Rose served GABA as President during 2008-2011, with the same level of creativity he infused into his many Mashramani costume bands.
Rose won multiple costume band prizes for local companies including, Digicel, Banks DIH and was even earmarked in 2006 to design bands for the Jamaican Carnival, who’s CEO, Byron Lee chose Rose after witnessing the designer’s impressive work locally.
That was the beginning of the popularisation of Rose as a force to reckon with in the industry in the Caribbean. He went on to form ‘Facts and Roses’, which was a collaborative effort with wife, designer, Michelle Cole and won the majority of prizes at Mash 2007.
Rose had a deep basketball background, known for his long-range jump shots; he was nicknamed ‘Chinee’. It was his success in the fashion industry and his constant visits to Burnham Basketball Court that ignited his tenure as Georgetown sub-association President.
He won the presidency in September 2008 and his ambitious plan for basketball development in Georgetown resulted in the first sketch of a modern Burnham Court being drawn. As a result, the effervescent, always buoyant Rose had raised $11M for the project.