…fished out of latrine at Aranka
POLICE are intensifying their probe into the mysterious death of a man found floating in an out-house toilet pit at Sulphur Rose, Aranka, Region 7, where he worked as a mine ranger in the employ of Atkinson Mining concession.
Dead is Clive Daly, 35, of ‘B’ Field Sophia. His body bore marks of violence. The gruesome discovery was made by his eldest brother, Trevor, who lives on the East Bank Demerara, about one week after Daly left his home to travel to the mining location on April 2.
Trevor said that last Thursday, when he called the location to speak with his brother, he was informed by the officer who is second in command at the company that Clive had gone missing. Trevor immediately told the officer, Julius Griffith, that he was coming up to look for his brother.
However, the officer tried to dissuade him, telling him that he was coming out on the same day to file a ‘missing person’ report and would take him in on his return from the city.  But Trevor said he waited all day, did not hear another word from the officer, until after 22:00 hrs on Thursday. The officer told him that
He could not get any transportation to come out.

On Monday, Trevor called Atkinson Mining Company on their satellite phone and informed them that he was coming in by himself. It was at this stage that Griffith revealed to him that they had found his brother, Clive in an abandoned latrine pit about ten feet away from the offices – an area which was presumably ‘combed’ days before.
On the way to Sulphur Rose, Trevor said he was met by Griffith at Buck Hall, and taken aback of the workplace where he found his brother stuffed in the latrine pit.
“He was wearing a pair of short pants and a striped jersey I recognized. He was floating face down, and he head appeared bashed in. When his body was brought close, I recognized the two gold teeth he had in front of his mouth,” Trevor said.
The elder Daly recalled that the pit was about four and a half feet deep and the water in it stood at about 3 feet or a little over.
Trevor said that the police were called in and undertakers from Lyken’s Funeral Home who had travelled up to get the body, did all the handling.  The body was taken to Buck Hall, the first leg of the journey in a pick up.  The other leg to Parika was done by speed boat.
Trevor reported that he had to find his way to where his brother was, all on his own, and similarly, brought his body back to Georgetown on his own, without the presence of anyone from the mining company where his dead brother had worked for more than three years. They paid the transportation expenses, and that was about it.
The body arrived in Georgetown around 7:30hrs Wednesday and is currently at the Lyken’s Funeral Home, awaiting a post mortem examination scheduled for tomorrow.
Meanwhile, at Clive Daly’s home yesterday, family members were in deep grief. His mother, Doreen Munroe Daly, tearfully recalled that as her son set out for Sulphur Rose on April 2, he promised that it was going to be his last trip, and that on his return he would open up a shop he had built at their Sophia premises, and venture into grocery business.
And his wife Cameeza Williams Daly, clutching their six month-old baby, listened to his siblings relate, for another time, the shocking story of her husband’s demise.
The second of three siblings, Clive Daly also leaves to mourn one sister, Natasha, three children 10 years, 6 years and 6 months, and other relatives.