A former national basketball player was killed while a popular biker was injured yesterday afternoon in a horrific motorcycle crash on a highway in district of Nickerie, in neighbouring Suriname.
Dead is Customs Enforcement Officer and basketball player Damian Liverpool, 33, of Shirley Field Ridley Square, in Georgetown, who died on the spot. Local superbike champion Stephen Vieira, meanwhile, sustained lacerations to his face, a broken phalange and minor bruises to his body in the accident and he is currently being treated at a hospital in the Dutch-speaking country.
According to reports from one of the riders in Suriname, the duo was among a group of local bikers who were on a cross country ride from these shores to participate in a bike show there.