A West Berbice labourer lost his life on Sunday evening when he rode his unregistered motorcycle into the concrete base of an electricity pole on the West Coast Berbice public road at Hopetown.
Dead is Zafeed Jameer, also known as ‘Leonard’, 33, of Lot 303 Tempe Village, West Coast Berbice. According to reports, Jameer was seen imbibing at a popular nightclub, after which he left and was proceeding on his motorcycle towards Washington, West Coast Berbice, when the collision occurred.
His mother, Joycelyn Jameer, 70, said that her son left home around 1 pm on Sunday. “He went out and buy channa for me and my daughter. He bring the channa, then he bathe and ride out on the dam with he motorcycle,” she said.
It was around 1 am yesterday that she received news of her son’s death. “Them call say he die. Police pick he up and gone with he at the mortuary,” the distraught woman said.
Jameer explained that her son had separated from his wife many years ago and moved into her home, where she resides with one of her daughters. However, she noted that the father of two would support his children financially.
“Me hear he been drinking and then he been a ride carry money for he daughter; she got to go tour, and he knock up to a lantern post. They pick he up and he ears was bleeding,” she stated. “Me hear the motorcycle and so bruk up and deh station.”
Jameer was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. He was said to have sustained major injuries to his head.
He leaves his children, mother and five siblings to mourn.