Police trainee dies in motorcycle accident

Jermaine Harlequin

A police officer in training is now dead after his motorcycle slammed head on into a speeding car early yesterday morning. Dead is Jermaine Harlequin, 21, of Lot 8 Phoenix Park, West Bank Demerara, while his pillion rider, Tiffany Thomas, 18, of Good Intent was injured.

“We were coming from a birthday party from Crane around 2.30am and it was a group of us. Some were riding and another were driving but he [Jermaine Harlequin] was in front of us riding,” one of Harlequin’s friends told Stabroek News yesterday. He explained that Harlequin was turning into the Phoenix Park tarmac when a speeding car, PKK 2237, heading north,