EIGHTEEN-year-old Hassani David of 257 Section ‘C’, South Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown perished when the boat in which he was travelling sank in a river in Guyana’s interior on Sunday night.

Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle at her Turkeyen home late yesterday afternoon, David’s mother, Natasha David, said she had last seen her son three months ago, when he left to go and work in the interior with someone known to the family.

The woman said her son had been interested in joining the Guyana Police Force, but had a change of heart and decided to work in the mining industry, expressing more interest in operating an excavator than in being a policeman. He started working with the small mining company as a serviceman, and up to the time of his death he was still a serviceman, but operated the excavator under supervision.

When family members received, on Monday, the devastating news of what had befallen David, the lad’s father, Clairmont David, immediately travelled to the area and joined a group of men who had begun searching for the teen’s body. He was not known to be a swimmer, according to his mother.

Late yesterday, the Guyana Chronicle received confirmation that the search parties had retrieved David’s body and were bringing it to the city under police escort.
Written By Leroy Smith