Pomeroon miner dies in freak accident at worksite

A 50-year-old gold miner lost his life on Thursday while working in the Arawak Backdam area along the Cuyuni River, Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni).
Dead is Methuselah Charles of Friendship Canal, Lower Pomeroon River.
According to reports, the incident occurred at about 10:30h while Charles and a coworker were engaged in cutting wood for a construction project at the mining location. At some point during the process, a tree limb reportedly broke loose and fell, striking Charles. The coworker, who was positioned some distance away, returned and found him motionless on the ground. Charles was rushed to the Bartica Regional Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival by a doctor. Government pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh, on Friday, conducted a post-mortem examination on Charles’s body at the Memorial Gardens Funeral Home, and gave the cause of death as multiple injuries. The body was handed over to relatives for burial. This workplace accident comes more than a month after a 28-year-old Cuban construction worker, Dayrovis Martinez Mendoza, was killed after a 15-foot-high, 120-foot-long concrete wall collapsed at a Chinese-owned supermarket construction site in Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
The wall, located on the eastern side of the supermarket, was reportedly under construction for about three months.