Body of teen reported missing found on Bartica Beach
The body of 13-year-old Daniel Cameron who was reported missing on Tuesday was on Wednesday found floating at a beach in Bartica, Region Seven (Cuyuni -Mazaruni).
During a telephone interview with this publication, Commander of Region Seven, Deon Moore, revealed that a post-mortem examination is expected to be conducted shortly to determine Cameron’s cause of death.
Cameron had resided at Grove, East Bank Demerara, but was sent to spend time with his grandmother at Bartica on Tuesday. The child was received at the Bartica stelling by his uncle, who had then gone to the Bartica Regional Hospital for a medical checkup. While there, the child was told to sit on a bench and wait, but upon the uncle’s return, the child was not there.
The child’s aunt, Ramdi Singh, related to this publication, “The uncle said that…he left him outside…and he went in the hospital to take a blood test, and when he came out, he didn’t see him back. And he called the mother, and then she called me and she tell me, and we friends and so look for he in Bartica.
“They look whole night the [Tuesday] night. Yesterday (Wednesday) morning they search and didn’t find he. And when they go and report the matter, the Police look for him and they found him at the beach side,” The child’s aunt detailed.
Cameron had been a pupil of the Covent Garden Secondary, EBD.