SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Alex Narine of Columbia Village, Essequibo Coast was brutally stabbed to death Monday afternoon just after 15.00hrs while he was involved in an argument with another man over a computer on an old paddy drying floor which is used as a sports ground by residents in the Anna Regina Housing Scheme.Reports said the teenager who was in love with a 13-year-old girl had gone to the village to visit her but ended up in an argument with another man on the drying floor over a computer and was fatally stabbed in his back.

According to reports the lifeless body of the teenager was discovered by residents with a stab wound in the back at around 15:30hrs lying on the main roadway to the village.

The police were summoned to the scene and the body of the teenager was taken to the Suddie Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival. However relatives of the dead teenager are claiming that if police had allowed them to take him to the hospital promptly he would have received medical attention and still be alive.
The teenager who worked in the interior was deeply in love with the 13-year-old girl who is still attending school. He would usually visit the housing scheme to see her.

On Monday he left home at around 08:00hrs to see her but never knew it was the last time he would have had the opportunity.

Meanwhile, several residents of Anna Regina Housing Scheme are calling on the police to take swift action to eradicate a growing bush rum business in the area. They said the cheap illegal rum is causing some young men to be drinking everyday at the drying floor area which is creating several problems for law-abiding persons in the village.

Residents said the murder of the teenager can be linked to drunkenness caused by the cheap bush rum that is sold publicly without regard for the laws of the country. Only recently another young man was stabbed to death in a ‘hideout’ rum shop in the village during an argument. A long knife that was used to peel green mangoes to be as ‘cutters’ for drinkers in the shop was used as the murder weapon.