By Jeanna Pearson
Memories of Christmas were washed away for a policeman who lost his wife and children on an early January morning in 1988, in Smithfield, New Amsterdam, Berbice.
While the horror of the killing wracked the small village in Berbice, Commander of the Essequibo Coast, Donald Pearson stood at the Parika stelling receiving the news that his wife had been brutally murdered and doctors were trying to save the lives of his young children.
He stood there trying to grasp the reality of the report as quiet moments with his wife