Chaitram Sooknarine and his family in happier times
One man is dead and two others have been critically injured after a truck toppled off the Barama Road at Buck Hall, Essequibo Coast.
Dead is Chaitram Soknarine, 43, of Anna Regina New Housing Scheme; while those critically injured are Trevor and Earnko Pearson.
Police are investigating the incident, which occurred at about 17: 00hrs last Thursday.
Investigations revealed that Sooknarine and the Pearsons, both of Mainstay, Essequibo Coast, were in the tray of a motor lorry which was proceeding along the Barama Road when the driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle, which toppled, resulting in them receiving injuries.
They were taken to the Suddie Hospital, where Sooknarine was pronounced dead on arrival while Trevor Pearson was referred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, and Earnko Person was admitted to the Suddie Hospital for medical treatment.
Guyana Times International was told that the driver of the truck, Kavindra Ramcharran, fled the scene following the accident, and police were searching for him up to last Friday evening.
Ramcharran hails from Cotton Field Village, Essequibo Coast.
Speaking to this newspaper at Anna Regina, the reputed wife of the deceased, Kawattie Gopaul, said she had last seen her husband last Tuesday before he went into the interior to work as a labourer with a businessman from Cotton Field. The woman said she had been living with Sooknarine for the past seven years, and they have parented one child.
Ramcharran said her husband had been a loving man, who had worked hard to maintain his family. “He does go all around Guyana to work just to provide for us. I used to quarrel on he but he never listen to me. Now look what happened,” the woman lamented.
She said that when she had received the call, she had been expecting to hear that her husband was returning home on Thursday. “He never got the opportunity to play with his daughter one more time.” Ramcharran told this newspaper that she received information that her husband and the others were returning home when their truck toppled.
She again received a call, at around Thursday evening stating that her husband and two others had been hospitalised at Suddie.
Ramcharran said she immediately visited the hospital, where she saw Sooknarine lying unconscious on the bed. When she returned to the hospital on Friday, she learnt that he died.
