– both over the weekend

A FARMER and an unemployed man, both of East Berbice, Coremtyne, have died in the last two days after they both allegedly committed suicide.

Their deaths, the police say, have brought to eight the number of persons who have died of self-inflicted injuries for 2018.
The figure is just one short of the number of persons who died by suicide for the corresponding period last year in the agriculture-based region.

On Sunday, just around 13:30hrs, Daneshwar Singh, aged 37, along with his common-law wife, Alemia, and their two young under-age children went to a birthday party in their Moleson Creek, Corentyne, village.
Sources say that Singh was seen drinking with other male guests up until 00:10h, when he asked to be excused, saying he was going to urinate.

No one thought anything of it when he did not return to the party, until around 06:30hrs the following day.

On checking around the premises where the party was held to see if he had gotten drunk and fallen asleep somewhere, relatives found him hanging from a rope on a beam under the host’s house.

The police were duly summoned, but they soon discovered that while there was a rope tied around his neck, there were no visible marks of violence on other parts of the body.

The mystery of how he actually died will be resolved just as soon as a post-mortem is done on the body, which is at the Skeldon Public Hospital mortuary.

Meanwhile, 33-year-old Gomesh Muniram, known as Kumar, had repeatedly threatened to take his life, just as his older sibling did many years ago.

His mother, however, did not take him seriously. Kumar lived with her, a sister and an uncle in a modest house at Number 66 Village, also on the Corentyne.

But last Friday, she had reason to talk to him sternly about having the television up too loud at 03:30hrs in the morning and disturbing her from her sleep, knowing that she has to get up early to go sell at the market.

After turning the television down, he asked her to get him a cup of tea, and when she came back with it, he reportedly told her, “Dis guh be de last day yuh guh see me.”

Having heard words to that effect before, she wordlessly turned and headed to bed. But at around 04:55hrs when she got up to prepare to go to work, she heard Kumar vomiting at the back of the house.
She called out to him, but did not get a verbal response. Minutes later, he returned into the house and showed her an empty bottle, which allegedly had the deadly weedicide, gramazone.

In a bid to save his life, she had him rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he died on Sunday.

A subsequent post-mortem found that death was due to acute respiratory distress, due to the ingestion of poison.