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Kaieteur News
Monday December 17, 2012
Enterprise Road Safety Association continues to assist Cheshire Home President of the Enterprise Road Safety Association Chandrapaul Persaud has issued a strong appeal for road users, especially motorists to “spare the drinks and save lives on our roads” as the festive season heats up. Persaud made the appeal while making his association’s customary Christmas donation to the Cheshire home at Mahaica, East Coast Demerara yesterday. According to Persaud, there are more vehicles on the country’s roads and a lot of new young drivers; hence there should be greater care and caution while navigating traffic whether it is on busy city streets or on outlying carriageways where motorists are more inclined to speed. “I want to call on road
users to be extra cautious especially since we are in a season where there is expected to be a lot of drinking of alcohol. I want drivers to desist f r o m drinking and driving. We want them to be very focused,” Persaud said. The Enterpr i s e R o a d Safety Association has been a friend of the Cheshire Home at Mahaica for the past four decades, donating much needed items and food at this time of the year. This year members of the association with help from other groups, including the Enterprise Support Inc, USA, donated over $200,000 in supplies to the home which will certainly e n a b l e t h e entity to fulfill its mandate of caring for the i n c r e asing number of inmates.
Members of the Enterprise Road Safety Association, nurses and inmates of Cheshire Home with some of the donated items. “We believe that this home needs more attention from other organizations.
Family frustrated as elderly man remains missing The children of 79-yearold Vibert Wilfred Solomon also known as ‘Stove man’ and ‘Buggy’ remain frustrated as the man is yet to be found. It has been about two weeks and the panic in the Solomon household is increasing. Searches throughout the country have turned up no trace of the elderly man. According to the man’s daughter, about two weeks ago, she awoke at around 04:00 am only to find the front door of her Lot 11 Cemetery Road, Railway Line, Triumph, East Coast Demerara home open, and her father missing. Solomon’s family told Kaieteur News that he has a tendency of leaving home
without informing his family; however, he would always be spotted by a relative or friend and taken back. This family said that it has never taken them this long to find the former soldier. Solomon, who is said to be an active individual, is dark in complexion and is about five feet, four inches tall. He was last seen wearing a long sleeve blue and white shirt along with short khaki pants and a brown hat. The children and relatives of Vibert Solomon are making an even more desperate call for the public’s assistance to find him. Anyone knowing his whereabouts is asked to make contact with his family on telephone numbers-687-2657,
They still need a lot of work here, as well as people to donate items for its upkeep,”
684-2150, 629-8502, 601-0595, or the nearest police station.
the association, nurses and an inmate of the Cheshire Home.
Eight-year-old hospitalised with burns from Essequibo fire Eight- year-old, Denzel Conway, of Lima Sands, Essequibo Coast remains a patient at the Suddie Public Hospital, after sustaining burns about his body, when his parents’ two storey building was destroyed by a fire. Conway sustained burns to his feet and is said to be in a stable condition. The fire, according to
Missing: 79-year old Vibert Wilfred Solomon
Persaud said after a simple handing over ceremony attended by members of
reports, was caused by a candle the eight year old was holding while he was said to be attending to a customer in the lower flat which had housed a shop. Initial reports have suggested that the lighted the candle fell into the gasoline stored in the building. While neighbours were unable to lend assistance in an attempt to extinguish the
flames, the fire attendants at Anna Regina Fire station were summoned but they turned up after the house was almost destroyed. Conway and his 12-yearold brother were alone at home at the time. Their mother Susie Conway was at a meeting at Anna Regina, some seven miles from Lima Sands when she learnt of the fire.
Two-year-old suffers burns after falling into lighted garbage heap “If yuh play with fire, yuh gonna get burn” is a term that two-year old Akeem Thomas of Region Seven is not yet able to comprehend. He therefore continued to play around a burning garbage heap despite his mother’s warning. According to Felicia Cummings, she was on her way to remove the child from near the fire when he stumbled and fell palms down on the burning heap. He was unable to get up and by the time his mother rushed to his assistance, there were materials stuck onto his right palm. “When I picked him up, I tried to brush off the stuff that was in his hand, but it just mek it worst. The whole skin from inside his hand just tear off.” The child was treated at a health facility in Region Seven before being transferred to the Georgetown Hospital
An injured Akeem Thomas taking a nap in the Pediatric Ward of GPHC Corporation (GPHC) where he was treated at the Accidents and Emergency (A&E) Unit before being admitted to the Children’s Ward there.
The woman added that a Pediatrician of (GPHC) has said that while the child would be fine, his palm will take a while to heal.