– family hoping for early recovery, proper investigation

FIVE-YEAR-OLD Rewel Roberts of Good Hope Village, Essequibo Coast is battling for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital Intensive Care Unit after he was involved in an accident near his home at about 10:00hrs on Sunday. Chronicle understands that the child and his grandfather were riding their bicycles on Good Hope Public Road when they stopped for a speeding car to pass as a parked excavator was blocking over half of the road. After the

boy and his grandfather stopped in the corner for the car to pass, the vehicle struck the child throwing him into the air before he fell onto the road. After the accident the same car took him to the Suddie Hospital where he was treated initially but the doctors there decided to have him transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital since he was in a critical condition. When this publication visited the hospital a relative who wants to remain anonymous said that Roberts and his grandfather were going to Roberts’ mother to collect clothes to attend church. She said that when she arrived at the hospital the driver of the car was trembling and he was ‘stink a rum’. The family is now questioning how could the driver be charged if the police did not administer a breathalyzer test. “We hope that he (the child) recovers very soon and that the matter will be investigated properly. This drinking and drive thing need to stop, something harder need to be done to these drunk drivers,” the family member said.

NO BREATHALYZER IN ‘G’ Division
Meanwhile, a senior officer attached to ‘G’ Division told the Chronicle that a breathalyzer test could not have been done because there are no breathalyzer machines in that division. However, the police will continue to investigate the matter and get the driver charged and placed before the courts.

(By Asif Hakim)