Brain dead Berbice schoolboy succumbs
Fifteen-year-old Yannick Schultz, who was declared brain dead after being struck down last Saturday afternoon along the Number Three Village, West Coast Berbice Public Road, succumbed on Thursday afternoon.
Clairmont Schultz confirmed that his son passed away around 2pm at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The senior Schultz had told Stabroek News earlier in the week that his son was not responding to tests that were being conducted and he was subsequently pronounced brain dead by the doctor.
Schultz, a student of the Fort Wellington Secondary School, was reportedly cycling along the Number Three Public Road when a car struck him.
He was rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital and transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital, before being transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Contacted Traffic Chief Deon Moore said that the driver of the vehicle will be rearrested to assist in further investigations. A Sophia youth was yesterday sentenced to three months in jail for stealing a woman’s gold chain.
Mark Gonsalves, a 21-yearold pork knocker, pleaded guilty when he appeared before Magistrate Annette Singh in a Georgetown court.
The charge against him stated that he stole a gold chain, valued $120,000, from owner Renuka Harlequin.
According to prosecutor Seon Blackman, Harlequin was walking along Water Street, where Gonsalves snatched her chain and began to run. However, he was subsequently chased and captured by public-spirited citizens, who later handed him over to the police.
The court heard that the chain was recovered and lodged with the Police at the Brickdam Police Station.
Magistrate Singh subsequently sentenced Gonsalves, who is father of a two-year-old, to three months in jail—the minimum sentence—while informing him that he was being given a second chance but must learn a lesson from the punishment.