The Police in Berbice are continuing their investigations into the death of  a 27-year-old driver attached to J&N taxi service  who was pulled out of a weed infested waterway, at Number Seven Village Corentyne, shortly before midday on Thursday,  hours after he was dispatched to East Canje , to pick up customers. The dispatcher attached to the taxi service, and another driver have since been held for questioning as police seek to find a lead in Trevor Kissoon’s death.
Kissoon’s body, with marks of violence to the head and face, with eyes gouged out and head bashed in, was taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital mortuary where it awaits an autopsy.
At the scene , his relatives wailed and fainted , and his friends recalled him saying that it was his last day as a driver ,even as  the  police retrieved the body from the trench about three hundred meters north of the Berbice River bridge.

Meanwhile , his employer  Satesh Rajaram, called Joe, told  the media that the deceased was in his employ for seven months , since the opening of the taxi service, which has its base at  Main and Trinity Street .
Rajaram said following a request by a customer at 23:00hrs , his employee was dispatched to the East Canje Turn, in motor vehicle HB7489.
Kissoon , he said, thereafter radioed the dispatcher, informing him that he had located the customer and would be proceeding to Rose Hall Town ,  before returning to Church View Hotel, at Main and King Streets , and then continuing the journey to Skeldon, on the Upper Corentyne .
However, at 01:30hrs on Thursday,  Rajaram said ,efforts were made to contact him, via the radio set, but  without any success . Shortly after, he radioed the base, informing the dispatcher that he had stopped along the Number 19 roadway ,where the customers were loading the vehicle with two suitcases.
In addition, Kissoon reportedly requested an additional wheel, inclusive of the spare he was carrying , and  promised to uplift it at the base moments later.
The proprietor, who also owns the J&N supermarket and complex, recalled that there was no extra wheel at the business premises at the time , but he  located another which he left  for Kissoon , who never  retrieved it.
Rajaram reported that several attempts were made to contact his employee, but without success . However, between 02:30 and 03:00hrs , a voice unknown  to the dispatcher radioed saying , ‘We at Number 36 Village , Corentyne and coming’.
According to Rajaram, after receiving that information, he averaged that it would take two hours for his employee to arrive at New Amsterdam .
The distraught businessman told this newspaper that he was uncertain as to whether his employee did make the return trip to Church View  before  proceeding to the Upper Corentyne location.
At 07:30 hrs, another driver who drives the same vehicle being used by Kissoon, resumed duty , but HB7489 was not in the garage.
Rajaram went to the Central Police Station where he attempted to make a missing person report , but was advised that 24 hours must expire before this could be done.
Along with another employee , he proceeded to search all cane field  locations, inclusive of Reliance, East Canje and Seawell ,Corentyne , before returning to the Police Station , where he was informed that a body was found. The car however, was not recovered.
Meanwhile over at his home ,  Kissoon’s reputed wife, Julie Dionne, recalled that she had accompanied him earlier that day to Fyrish Village , Corentyne  where he had dropped off a customer.
On returning to New Amsterdam , he left her at Republic Road and Charles Place , shortly after 11:00hrs , where she attended a birthday party for one of his relatives .
According to her, he had asked whether she had her mobile phone and after being told no, went to   their home to  retrieve it.
However , about an hour later, not hearing from him , several ‘please call me ‘ messages were sent, but no replies were  received. Dionne said it was not usual for her husband to be away and not make contact home regularly and the new development caused her to be worried .
Later, she was informed that a body was found, and on visiting the scene, she identified her husband.
Kissoon leaves to mourn scores of relatives and friends.