ABOUT 17:30 hrs on Tuesday, officers attached to the Gros Islet Police Station in St. Lucia received a report of a lifeless male on a bed at a guesthouse on Marie Therese Street in Gros Islet.
The male was transported to the Gros Islet Polyclinic where he was pronounced dead. Officers were able to identify the body as that of 61-year-old Richard Gordon Proffit, a Guyanese national who was vacationing in St. Lucia.
Proffit was last seen about 1:00 p.m. that same day in his room. A post-mortem is scheduled for a later date. Police suspect no foul play but they are conducting an investigation into the matter.