Recent events review Saturday, July 8 to Friday, July 14

reported hijacking but stated that it was being investigated. Shivtahal’s common-law wife, Rovanie Kharmattie, told Stabroek News that she last saw her husband on Sunday afternoon, when he left home to make his way to Industry, East Coast Demerara, to pick up some family members. son as the reason why the men spared his life. Speaking to Stabroek News from his home, Shivtahal, 22, who had bruises about his body and swollen feet after what he related to be almost a day-long walk, said that he did not have words to explain how it felt to be alive or to describe what he had gone through. “It is [an] overwhelming joy to be alive. Honestly to go through what I went through and come out alive is just God grace,” he said in a soft tone of voice. Shivtahal had been reported missing on Sunday afternoon after he was reportedly taken hostage in his car at gunpoint on Camp Street by escapees, whom he said used him to flee the scene. His car, PKK 4103, was found abandoned later the same day at North Ruimveldt, while he turned up alive at the Vigilance Police Station around 10 pm on Monday. Desmond James. The number of prisoners who escaped during Sunday’s fire at the prison was given as eight up to yesterday. Four other escapees had been earlier identified as Bartica massacre convict Mark Royden Williams, accused Trinidadian drug trafficker Cornelius Thomas and murder accused Stafrei Alexander and Uree Varswyk. Wanted bulletins had been issued for them earlier this week. Director of Prisons Gladwyn Samuels had previously identified Williams, Alexander and Varswyk as the main orchestrators of the breakout; he had said he believed the fires were set at the facility as a smokescreen for their escape.