PYO pays tribute to Balram Khandai on 18th death anniversary
Members of the Essequibo Coast, Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) branch of
A PYO member places a wreath on Balram Khandai’s grave
the Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO), on Wednesday, paid tribute to their colleague, Balram Khandai who was shot and killed on his way home after attending a Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) Congress in Berbice in 2002.
The members laid wreaths at the Memorial Site in Lima Sands on the Essequibo Coast.
Khandia, 18-years-old at the time, was driving along the Rose Hall Public Road when armed criminals opened fired at his vehicle, fatally wounding him.
Dead: Balram Khandai
The PYO member was an observer at the PPP’s 27th Congress in Port Mourant, Berbice in 2002. (G14)