Contractors ramping up works to complete Ogle-Eccles road link

CONTRACTORS conducting works on the US$106.4 Million East Coast to East Bank De-

By Clestine Juan

THE children of Daniel Singh, who had been grieving for 23 years, finally received justice when their father’s killer was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after serving a minimum of 30 years.

merara road link project have ramped up works to ensure that it is finished within the

Deonarine Bhikari, a 56-year-old cane harvester from Enmore, East Coast Demerara, was sentenced by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow of the Demerara High Court on Wednesday.

A 12-member jury had found him guilty of murdering his 49-year-old neighbour, Daniel Singh, on May stipulated time frame.

This was according to President, Dr Irfaan Ali, during a visit to the site

21, 2000.

Back in 2000, Bhikari allegedly hacked Singh to death after the latter refused to allow him to continue a relationship with his young daughter.

After the incident, which the dead man’s young children witnessed, Bhikari packed his things and fled the jurisdiction to Venezuela, where he remained in hiding until he returned home to Guyana in 2018.

During the sentencing where the construction works are underway. hearing, a social worker read Bhikari’s probation report, which stated that he maintained his innocence and claimed that the charges were a “conspiracy” against him. taken into consideration.”

President Ali said that it is important for citizens to be able to see what the area that is being cleared for the bypass road looks like before it is transformed into a four-lane highway.

While there, one of the engineers on site related that the land-clearing exercise commenced last year and thus far they have completed about 6.5 kilometres of the intended- ed.