ALL is not lost in the matter involving the murder of dominoes fanatic Orin Joseph at his South Ruimveldt Park home and business place on April 14, 2013.

A man who claims to have given the police information pertaining to the matter weeks after the murder is now calling on the authorities to reopen the case.

The informant, Hector Massiah, told the Guyana Chronicle on Monday that years after the murder, he provided the police with additional information and insight pertaining to a suspect who may have been responsible for the murder.
The man in question, he said, is presently in the Camp Street Prison awaiting trial for another murder, and as such is calling on Acting Commissioner of Police, David Ramanrine to reopen the Orin Joseph case.

Joseph, 52, then president of the Blue Bird Dominoes Club, was gunned down in a hail of bullets outside his home just after a dominoes competition had ended.
One of the bullets reportedly hit him in his abdomen, but there were no eyewitnesses to the crime. Moreover, the jewellery he was wearing at the time were taken by two men on a motorcycle.
Joseph had briefly exited his yard and was about to park his car under his house when he was attacked by the men, who escaped under cover of darkness, as there was a ‘blackout’ in the community.

A suspect, who had been in custody, was released.
Police officials have also continuously said that with no one around, because the shooting occurred during a ‘blackout’, it has been difficult for investigators to pick up any leads.
Despite the apparent standstill, the man’s widow, Faye, who is the president of the Georgetown Dominoes Federation, still has hope that the police will bring the perpetrator to justice.