Teen labourer charged with murdering Golden Grove NDC worker
A nineteen-year old labourer of Melanie Dami-shana, East Coast Deme-rara (ECD), was charged with the murder of Golden Grove resident David Gentle yesterday morning.
The accused, Rollan Abrams, was arraigned before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court. Abrams, who was not required to plead, was remanded until October 22nd.
Gentle’s lifeless body was discovered early on the morning of September 2nd with chop wounds about his body and his head almost severed from his neck at Haslington, ECD.
The fifty-five-year-old had left his Lot 42 Golden Grove, ECD home for karaoke at Nabaclis North, also on the East Coast. skills. “Particularly, when we spoke to the private sector, they did point out that there is a fairly open labour market policy in Guyana,” he said.
“The government there is obviously contemplating CARICOM allowing all categories to move when you look at the fact that you that you will have about a 40% addition to GDP in four years. Already you see the housing and construction sector is growing. There are a lot of oil sector workers that have to be accommodated …the demand for skilled labour from accounts clerks to IT specialists and so on, is going to be very substantial. Whether that can be entirely met from CARICOM or not we will see,” he added.
Investigators had ruled out robbery as the motive behind his death since all his belongings were still on his person.
Stokley Roberts, the dead man’s brother, had told this newspaper that based on the injuries inflicted, it was clear that Gentle’s attacker/s wanted him dead.
“Apparently he was ambushed. That’s more like an ambush… No one would have receive those kind of wounds and live. When a man head actually come off his body, how he gonna live like that? He wasn’t robbed because everything was retrieved from his pocket, in terms of his phone, he had on a ring. So it was clearly a murder,” Roberts had said.
Roberts had said he believed that his brother’s
killing was linked to either his job at the Nabaclis Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) or because he reportedly gave chase behind some men who evaded the police.