…at #22 Village, WCB

THE body of a sixty-one-year old man was discovered floating in a ditch alongside a street in #22 Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB) early Sunday morning not far from where he lived.

Reports suggest that Glixmont Rogers, aka Tony, of Lot 72 #22 Village, West Coast Berbice, apparently fell into the ditch and drowned while making his way home from a birthday party two streets away.

Persons who last saw him alive said he left the party around 03:30hrs.

A young woman said that Rogers, who was a popular sexagenarian in the village, had turned down an offer by fellow party-goers for them to escort him home.

“He said he could manage himself to go home. We gave him a box of food. He took it; he said he was good to go and he walked off,” a young lady recalled tearfully.

The spot where a passerby saw the body lying in a ditch with less than a foot of water in it is located not far from the house where the party was held.

His body was taken to a local funeral parlour pending a post-mortem examination.

Rogers, who was a carpenter/mason by profession, reportedly hailed from Linden where it is said that he has three children and from where he had moved to WCB quite a number of years ago, a close associate of the dead man said.

“He was always a cheerful fellow; always willing to help fellow villagers with chores and maintenance or repair works on their homes and so on, sometimes free of cost,” one resident said.
Rogers left to mourn his reputed wife, Grace McAlmont.

Police were up to late yesterday investigating the circumstances under which the man met his demise.