Berbice joiner found dead in home, foul play suspected

A Kingston, Berbice joiner was yesterday discovered dead in his home by his nephew and police are suspecting foul play.
His fisherman nephew, RadhaKrishna Singh, 35, said there was blood and he immediately called the police.
Kaieteur News was told that Kumar Singh called ‘Brother’, 50, of Yacoob Street, Kingston was discovered dead with blood oozing from his nose and scratches on his back.

The Kingston, Berbice home where Kumar Singh, 50, was discovered dead by his nephew.

Singh said that the fence leading to the home and the door to his uncle’s apartment were both broken.
The discovery was made around 05:00hrs when Singh returned home from a fishing trip.
The nephew said that on seeing the broken fence and door, he called out but got no response from his uncle. He went into his uncle’s apartment and saw him lying on the floor. There were no signs of life and he immediately went to the Springlands Police Station.
Both nephew and uncle are said to be living alone in their separate apartments. The younger Singh said that his uncle is hypertensive and police found his pressure kit not far from the body.
A post mortem will be performed on Singh’s body today.

- as GuySuCo scrambles to fill demands for raw sugar
The Enmore Packaging Plant, which was set up to sweeten the sugar corporation with 35% more gains than it would get for raw sugar, is currently resting idle.



Managers at the Enmore estate told Kaieteur News that the packaging plant is not in operation because the sugar currently being produced is meant for export by bulk.
The government paid the Indian company, Surendra Engineering Corporation, US$12.5 million to construct the plant. The intention was to package all of the sugar produced at Enmore for sale locally and overseas.
For the first crop of this year, Estate Manager Yudhisthir Persaud said the factory produced approximately 21,000 tonnes of sugar, and most of that went to the packaging plant.

However, for the current crop, no sugar has been sent for packaging at the plant, and Persaud told Kaieteur News that he is not sure when they will receive those orders.
Factory Manager Akbar Ally said that the permanent workers at the plant are sent off to perform various functions in the factory when the plant is not in operation. Temporary staff, mainly from the Enmore area, is employed once the plant is in operation.
The plant was commissioned in May 2011. It was announced then that the intention was for the plant to package 40,000 tonnes of sugar per year.
The factory was constructed during the tenure of Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud. There were queries about the cost and Minister Persaud actually agreed to a forensic audit. This audit never got going because Guyana Sugar Corporation recanted.