NAREI officer dies in Tacama Trail accident

Aaron Leitch

Aaron Leitch, a 34-year-old District Crop Extension Officer attached to the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) died following an accident around 8 yesterday morning along the Tacama trail, Ituni District, Region Ten.

The accident involved a pickup, PAC 3958, owned by the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) and attached to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), which was being driven at the time by Nigel Hutson, a 50-year-old from Georgetown, with occupants, Gregory Grenville, 39, from Amelia’s Ward, Linden; Arafat Fazal, 37, a Bangladeshi national, and Leitch.