Assistant Commissioner of Police Deryck Josiah died suddenly yesterday at private city hospital, where he had gone for a routine medical checkup for injuries he sustained in an accident last month.
He was 50 years old.
Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell said that from preliminary reports it seemed Josiah suffered a massive heart attack while at the hospital.
It is unclear if any medication was being administered or medical tests were being performed on him at the time.
Police, in a statement, said, “Assistant Commis-sioner of Police Deryck Josiah died at about 15:30 hrs …at a private city hospital. He is suspected to have suffered a heart attack.”
Josiah was heading to the airport on the morning of November 12—part of his official duties whenever the president leaves the country—when he collided with another vehicle at Versailles,