Corentyne farmer found dead in trench after disagreement with workers

The lifeless body of a Corentyne farmer was on Sunday pulled from a trench at Alness, Corentyne, Berbice. Dead is 49-year-old Burnett Gray, a rice and sheep farmer of Alness Village.
The discovery was made at about 06:00h by his wife in a pasture a short distance away from his home. He was last seen alive on Saturday.
The man’s wife, Althea Pearson, told Guyana Times that there was a disagreement between her husband and some of the workers.
She recalled asking him to remain at her mother’s home while she looked after the sheep.
“A seh ‘a coming back and den we gon go and look after business with dem boys’. And I left and go away and look after the stocks [sheep],” Pearson said.
According to her, when she returned to her mother’s home, her husband was gone. “I don’t know where he left to go.”
She became worried after some time had elapsed and she did not hear from him. Several villagers were contacted including family members but all of them said they did not see Grey.
However, on Sunday morning Pearson stated that she and an aunt ventured out to look for her husband and it was then the gruesome discovery was made.
“He was a loving person. We go farming together, we graze stock all together…all the way we does be together,” the woman said as she sobbed.
Gray was a father of three. The matter was reported and the body was pulled from the trench. There are no reports that marks of violence were found on the body.
An investigation is underway and a post-mortem examination is expected to be conducted today.