Stanleytown boy, 13, drowns in trench

Mark Anthony Burnette

The family of a 13-year-old boy was plunged into mourning on Tuesday when his lifeless body was pulled from a trench near his home at Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara.

Dead is Mark Anthony Burnette, of Lot 60 Church Street, Stanleytown, who failed to resurface after making a dive, through an old tyre, into a trench some 60 metres from his home.

Burnette’s sister, Renetta, told Stabroek News that her younger brother, who attended the Endeavour Secondary School,