A man in his late 60s collapsed on a pavement on Regent Street in the vicinity of Kuyum’s Jewellery World on Wednesday and was later pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Dead is Charles Lawrence of Charlotte Street, Georgetown.
An eyewitness was heard telling the man’s wife Lorna Lawrence that she saw him stop and hold on to a post for a few seconds and when asked if he was alright the man started to shiver and then he fell backwards hitting his head on the concrete.
Dozens of curious onlookers ran to the scene and managed to put him in an upright position close to a wall, but according to one witness the man already appeared dead.
As a crowd assembled to see what had happened, slowing traffic in the process, two police officers on patrol stood speechless while persons tried to get a telephone call to the man’s wife.
About 25 minutes later, a uniformed officer requested that persons move from too close to the man, but even then no ambulance came. The officer questioned the man’s wife who came minutes after and was appalled that her husband had fallen.
“I shouldn’t have sent him to the market, he didn’t sleep all night last night but he said he wanted to come out for some breeze,” the woman cried as she continuously rubbed the man’s face, calling out his name.
She told officers that the man suffered from high blood pressure and also had heart complications. More than 30 minutes after the man fell he was taken to the hospital by a police vehicle.
