-Suspect arrested

The lifeless body of a  supply chain manager attached to the Guyana Goldfields Inc. was found on Monday night in an apartment at Thomas Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown.

Dead is 42-year-old Neil Whyte of Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

According to the police , the victim was staying  at the upper flat of an apartment of a three storey concrete building located on Thomas Street after returning from the Hinterland on Monday.

Residents said that earlier in the night ,the man came downstairs and related to a friend that he will be meeting someone at the corner of Thomas and Middle Street.

He subsequently returned with an ex-employee and they returned into the building . The  ex-employee later left.

The guard at the premises, knowing that it is the protocol of the company that the visitors of guest must be checked out of the building by the guest, later went up to the victim’s room and saw him lying in a pool of blood on the bed and appeared to be dead. He was naked and bound.

The guard informed his superiors who later informed the police.

The ex-employee was later arrested in the wee hours of Tuesday morning in Berbice.