A 21-year-old bakery assistant of Number 11 Village, West Coast Berbice who left home around 8.10 pm on Sunday to meet friends was killed in a hit-and-run accident at Bath Settlement around 10.30 pm.
Reports are that Rabindranauth ‘Gregory’ Persaud was walking along the road on his way home, when a white car headed in the opposite direction, hit him and did not stop.
An eyewitness told Persaud’s relatives that the car turned into a street at a fast rate and that no one pursued it because there was a blackout in the area at the time. Relatives learnt that persons telephoned the police and they arrived and took Persaud to the Fort Wellington Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
His aunt, Julie Prashad who took care of him after his mother died while he was still small, said she learnt of the incident through ranks of the Fort Wellington Police Station.
She said the police found her nephew’s cellular phone in his pocket and called the last number that he had dialed. A relative who was at the Timehri International Airport at the time received the call from the ranks and immediately informed her around 11.55 pm. She said her husband; Chamanlall Nandram went to the hospital’s mortuary to identify the body.
Prasad said that her nephew had received a call from his friends earlier on Sunday and made arrangements to meet them at Bath Settlement. She said he told her he was going out with them and would be back soon. He never made it home alive.
She told this newspaper the young man was employed at Boodram’s Bakery at Enmore, East Coast Demerara and his employers provided accommodation for him but he would travel often to visit her. He said he was supposed to leave Berbice early yesterday morning to return to work.
He leaves to mourn his father and a brother.
