MEMBERS of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Friday morning accompanied by the Assistant District Scout Commissioner Theon Hope, visited the injured scout who remains hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) following an accident on July 25, 2016 at Woolford Avenue.Heading the team of ranks was Traffic Chief Dion Moore, who told the Guyana Chronicle that they just wanted to visit the injured St. Lucian scout member, Nick Omari Joseph, who is in the paediatric ward of the institution.

He stated that although the driver was convicted it does not mean that the case is closed, as such, they wanted to see how the child was responding to treatment. Moore added that the lad was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and was later transferred to the children’s ward since he is doing better.

At the GPHC on Friday, the eight-year-old was attached to many medical paraphernalia and was crying out in pain as injections were being administered by nurses.

This newspaper understands that he is responding, but mostly to his mother, Delia Finistere, who is still in Guyana and his condition is being monitored by a team of doctors.

On July 26, 2016, two visiting cub scouts from St. Lucia, who were in Guyana for the 14th Caribbean Scout Cuboree, were struck down and injured outside the Scouts Association of Guyana (SAG) headquarters on Woolford Avenue, Georgetown.

According to reports, a woman drove up the one-way in car PSS 1236 shortly after an altercation with a guard at the nearby North Georgetown Primary School about her mode of dress on arrival to register a student.

She reportedly accelerated at an uncontrollable rate and struck down the children. The other injured lad was identified as nine-year-old Darnell Ajani Matthews, who has since been treated and sent away. Joseph was pinned under the vehicle for some time before he was rescued, causing him to receive serious injuries.