–was en-route to secure job
TWENTY-NINE-year-old Wayne Giddings of Sparendaam Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara, met his demise yesterday moments after venturing out to secure a job, leaving his reputed wife and three children at home.

This publication was informed that the man was riding his pedal cycle along the railway embankment at approximately 08.30 hrs when, in the vicinity of Ogle, he reportedly rode out from behind a minibus that was headed west towards Georgetown and ended up in the path of a car headed east, in the direction from whence he had come.

The man reportedly fell and hit his head, apparently triggering the onset of paranoia, which caused him to run up the road until he ended up in another village, just a corner away from where the accident occurred.

Eyewitnesses to the accident related that, apart from a broken hand, Giddings did not appear to have sustained any serious injuries; but as he ran from the scene, he took his vest and attempted to strap his broken arm.

Speaking with Giddings’s reputed wife, Phillomeana Hemchand, at their home yesterday afternoon, the woman recalled that she was at home when an eyewitness to the accident called her to say what had happened to her husband, and that he was not seriously injured.
But she received another call from a different person, informing her that the man had been involved in an accident and was seen running up the road away from the accident.

She said she decided to head to the scene to look for her husband, but found his unconscious body lying in Goedverwagting. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Hemchand said her reputed husband, who previously worked in the interior, left his home yesterday morning to seek a job, but did not inform her where he was heading for the job.

He leaves to mourn Hemchand and his children aged seven, four and two.
The driver of the car is in police custody assisting with the investigations.
By Leroy Smith