Members of the Calibro Band are currently assessing their losses, which amount to approximately $1 million, after a taxi driver who offered to take them to the hospital following an accident at Burma, East Coast Demerara, vanished with their equipment.
The Calibro Band was returning from playing at a 60th birthday party at Number 51 Village, Berbice, when the car they were in hit a culvert between 03:30 to 04:00 hrs on Sunday, at Burma, East Coast Demerara. Valdero Calistro known as Valdo, a 40-year-old musician of Best Road Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, sustained multiple injuries including a broken arm, as a result of the accident. The other occupants sustained minor injuries.