TWENTY-year-old gold miner Paul Gonsalves of the Pomeroon community was yesterday killed in an accident on the Greenwich Park Public Road, East Bank Essequibo after the motor car in which he was travelling home to be with his parents crashed into a lamp post.

His friends recalled that he had been working in the gold mining interior for some time, had apparently became fed up with the routine and had been contemplating changing occupation. He had reportedly told his mother, in a phone call last week, that he was “fed up” with the work and was coming home.

Unfortunately, he never made it home.

The driver of the vehicle has reportedly been taken into custody and is assisting the Parika Police with their investigations.

(Shirley Thomas)