The battered remains of a taxi driver attached to the J & N Taxi Service were pulled from a canal at Bramsfield, No. 7 Road, Corentyne around 1 pm yesterday while the taxi is still missing.
The driver, 27-year-old Trevor Kissoon of Alexander Street, New Amsterdam was apparently killed sometime in the wee hours of yesterday morning while on duty for the 7 pm to 7 am shift.
His body bore multiple wounds to his head, temple and above his eye. Kissoon who was at the time driving the silver grey AT 212 Carina motorcar, HA 7489 started working with the taxi service in February.
Satish Rajaram, owner of the taxi service, located at Main and Trinity streets, New Amsterdam said after receiving a call he sent Kissoon to Sheet Anchor Turn at East Canje to do a pick up at 10:50 pm.
The man contacted Rajaram via the radio set a few minutes later and informed him that he had made the pick-up and was on his way to Rose Hall Town. The ‘passengers’ had made a special request for the “212 driver.”
Kissoon also informed his boss that he was expected to make another pick up at Rose Hall and then drop off at Church View.
From there he was supposed to head to Skeldon with one of the passengers and also told his boss that he would return to base for a spare wheel.
Rajaram said too that around 1:30 am after the dispatcher did not hear from Kissoon again he contacted him and told him that he had stopped along the No.19 Road for one of the passengers to “load two suitcases.”
That was the last they heard from the driver. Around 7:30 am yesterday Rajaram tried to contact the driver again but to no avail.
Meanwhile he said that around 3 am a strange voice on his radio set informed him that they were on their way at No. 36 Village.
Rajaram said he found that strange as only the drivers were authorized to use the radio set. Around 8:30 am he made a report at the Central Police Station in NA but was told to wait until the 24-hour period had elapsed and then make a missing person’s report.
The young businessman said he, together with friends and the man’s relatives, begin a frantic search. At around 11:30 am their worst fears were confirmed when the body was found in a trench on the northern side of the road.
Reports are that the man’s feet were in the air as the rest of the body from the waist was submerged. At the scene, relatives fainted after undertakers removed the body.
His fiancé, Dion Thompson who shared his Alexander Street home said that she last saw him around 7 pm. He had dropped her off at his sister’s birthday party and was supposed to pick her up later.
He contacted her around 11:30 pm from another person’s cellular phone and told her about his work schedule and was also planning to take her along on the Skeldon trip.
After she did not hear from him she contacted the base and learnt that they had lost contact with him.
She called the person’s phone and was told that Kissoon “was in a house conducting some business.” The woman said the person told her he would take the phone to her partner but the call was disconnected.
Thompson suspected that something was amiss and decided to board a taxi and searched along the Corentyne for her lover, all the while desperately calling his phone. She said someone answered her calls initially.
She abandoned the search at Port Mourant and visited the taxi service base around 2 am. She stayed there until 5:10 am and kept hoping and praying for his safe return.
The woman was at the police station when she learnt that a body was found in a canal.
