The World Bank Group Report (1994), referring to the 1988-1992 period, noted “The government ' s capacity to deliver essential services has virtually collapsed. Infrastructure remains severely dilapidated. The supply of potable water is limited to a small proportion of the population, drainage and irrigation systems have deteriorated to the point that they are no longer useful, and health and education services have become so inadequate that social indicators for the country have fallen to among the lowest in the Caribbean.”

BURNT BODIES IN TRUNK

Burnt bodies in trunk
POLICE yesterday found the charred remains of two unidentified persons in a car trunk after gunshots were heard in the troubled East Coast Demerara Buxton/Stratsphey villages on Tuesday night.

The corpses were locked in the trunk of an ‘AT 192’ Toyota motor car shell on Stratsphey railway embankment.

Reports said, about 21:36 h on Tuesday, cops received a telephone call and proceeded to the area where the discovery was made at 22:00 h.

The victims could not be recognised but it is believed they were first shot and bundled into the vehicle that was torched.

Detectives are using the recorded chassis number of the car to try and ascertain its owner from records at the Licence Revenue Office.

Meanwhile, the cadavers are at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) mortuary awaiting identification and what remains of the car is at Vigilance Police Station.

The obvious murders are a grim reminder of the September 19 unsolved killing of Friendship, East Bank Demerara taxi driver, Rondell Whyte, whose bullet- riddled body was in a drain alongside Annandale railway embankment, on East Coast Demerara, as well.

His burnt-out ‘Toyota Carina’ was on the Buxton railway embankment. (MICHEL OUTRIDGE)

Thursday, October 20, 2005