A MAINTENANCE worker of Church’s Chicken who hails from Stevedore Housing Scheme, Georgetown, was refused bail on a cause of death charge by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, yesterday.
Jermaine Carrol, 28, pleaded not guilty to two charges, one of which said on Thursday, June 12, at Freeman Street, East La Penitence, Georgetown, he drove motorcar PPP 5931 in a manner dangerous to the public, thereby causing the death of Clement Joseph Collis. He also denied another charge that alleged on the same day, at Freeman Street, he drove the said vehicle when the third party insurance was not enforced at the time.
Police Corporal Bharat Mangru, prosecuting, said the defendant was the driver of motor vehicle and on that day he was proceeding at a fast rate along west of the southern side of Freeman Street. Subsequently, he collided with the deceased, a seven-year-old student of St Pius Primary School, who was at the time standing on a concrete bridge.
He said the vehicle pinned the deceased to the gate. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Mangru opposed bail on the grounds that the defendant was charged with several other minor matters and the police had problems apprehending him.

The defendant, unrepresented, was remanded to prison until July 4.