THE remains of 63-year-old Sunny Clifford, called ‘Sonny,’ of  Palmyra Village, East Canje, Berbice  was  discovered in an advanced state of decomposition at his residence, ten days after he was last seen by neighbours.The bottles from which he may have drank his alcoholic beverages were also found on the foam mattress where his body laid motionless, when the  Guyana Chronicle visited, just  before noon on Wednesday.
A relative of his, one Nadira Persaud, recounted that her uncle, who lived alone, was an habitual drunk, and that he suffered from  tuberculosis.
“He did not work,” she said, “but sometimes he would stay away  for two or three days and then come back. So when  I did not see him, I was not worried.”
She said it was around mid-morning Wednesday that his neighbours complained of an obnoxious  stench coming from her uncle’s home. “I got my son,” Nadira said, “and he  accompanied me. When we got in the house, he was lying on the mattress, he clothes paste pun he body. Maggot deh all over he; like he dead since Mother’s Day.”
The police are on the matter, and according to a report from the Government Pathologist, Dr. Vivikanand Brijmohan, there were no signs of  foul play.
‘Sonny’ has since been buried at Alness Village, where he spent his boyhood years.