The Guyana Police Force says that it has been advised that an inquest should be held into the killing of Calvin George whose body was found with stab wounds in Frenchman’s Backdam, Upper Demerara River, Region Ten, on February 24, 2023.
According to the commander of Regional Division Number Ten, Senior Superintendent Kurleigh Simon, no one has yet been charged with George’s death, however, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has advised an inquest be held into the fatal stabbing.
However, George’s sister, Omica Edwards, told the Sunday Stabroek yesterday that she has not heard from the police for quite some time. She was adamant that justice be served for what happened to her brother.
Edwards told the Sunday Stabroek that the 30-year-old George, of 31 Kaneville/Grove, East Bank Demerara, operated a small beverage business in the interior. George, Omica said, died on February 24, after he was stabbed by someone with whom he had previously conducted a transaction at his place of business. Two weeks prior to him being stabbed to death, George called and told her that the same person had issued threats to murder him.
Omica related that her sister-in law, who shares the same space with George in Frenchman’s Backdam, told her that the alleged assailant sent three persons to ostensibly purchase drinks from George. According to the information provided to Omica, the alleged assailant then approached and stabbed George. Omica further related that the same customer had initially owed George $11,000 from a previous transaction but later paid $2,000 leaving a balance of $9,000, a debt the assailant then refused to pay.
Given the sequence of events on that fateful night, and shortly before the stabbing took place, Omica remains convinced that the approach to purchase drinks by the three persons was one of collusion between the purported buyers and the alleged assailant. She opined that the three persons colluded with the assailant in the plot to have her brother killed. “People lives can’t go like chicken,” she stated. “I want the government to look into the situation because I need justice”, she added. The former Regional Commander, Senior Superintendent Hugh Winter, had told Stabroek News that Calvin George’s body was found lying motionless on the ground at Frenchman Backdam on February, 24 with stab wounds about his body. Winter disclosed that someone was arrested in relation to George’s death but was subsequently released on bail while the file was sent to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.
