–after being hospitalised since recent Camp Stephenson mishap

SERGEANT Quincy Threfall who was warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), after being injured in the April 30 explosion that rocked the Army’s Base Camp Stephenson at Timehri, has been discharged.

Threfall and another soldier, Lance Corporal Paul Peters, who was also injured but was treated on the base, have both received counseling, following the explosion, which also claimed the lives of three of their colleagues, who died on the spot.

They were L/Cpl Tooney Peneux, 28, of Orealla, Corentyne River; L/Cpl Kevon Samuel Nicholson, 23, of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, East Berbice; and Private Shaqueel DeHarte, of Paradise Village, West Berbice. They have all since been buried with full military rites.

The soldiers were in process of preparing pyrotechnics for a demolition exercise when a stack of it exploded.

Another explosion had earlier in the year rocked the GDF , this time at the Ruimveldt coastguard base, when on the eve of Guyana’s Republic Anniversary back in February, pyrotechnics that had been loaded onto a truck to be used for a fireworks display also exploded, injuring several soldiers in the process. Unfortunately, Cpl Seon Rose, who’d reportedly borne the brunt of the explosion, died the following day.
The Army has since convened a Board of Inquiry into both incidents, but no report has been released as yet.