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Relatives still awaiting word from authorities
Kunja ‘Nave’ Beharry
Two days after 27-year-old Kunja ‘Nave’ Beharry was reportedly found dead in a cell at the Camp Street Prisons, relatives are still awaiting word from officials of the facility.
According to relatives, no one from the Guyana Prison Service or Guyana Police Force has visited the family to give them any official word as to what really transpired.
“Up to know nobody ain’t come and tell we anything, is wha’ reporters come and tell we dah is wha’ we hear,” a relative said.
This newspaper was also informed that the dead man’s mother and father went to the Georgetown Public Hospital’s mortuary to see their son’s remains but were denied access.
The man’s relatives said they were told that they would have to wait until the police are ready to have a post mortem examination done before they would be able to see the body.
In the meantime, relatives said they feel they are fighting a lost cause since if anything was to become of the matter, prison officials would likely have already contacted and informed them of what transpired or at least the status of the investigation.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Home Affairs in a press statement issued yesterday noted that they are disturbed over the death of the prisoner. According to the statement, Beharry was deemed as being of unsound mind, and was in a cell with three other prisoners, also deemed to be of unsound mind.
The Ministry noted that it regrets that the Prison Authorities were in breach of the Prisons Act, as well as the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, dealing with the Prisoners of Unsound Mind, and Insane and Mentally Abnormal Prisoners, respectively.
According to the Ministry’s statement they have since instructed the Prison Authorities to take immediate steps to deal with other prisoners deemed to be of unsound mind/insane and mentally abnormal, until the Ministry of Home Affairs, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, work out the modalities for the detention of these prisoners.
“The Guyana Police Force has been asked to investigate the death of Nave Beharry, and to submit a report within twenty-four hours,” the statement concluded.
A police statement on the incident stated that about 07:10 hours on Friday, August 21, Beharry, 27, of Good Hope, Mahaica, was found dead in his cell at the Georgetown Prisons.
On Thursday last he was remanded for simple larceny.
The police statement noted that investigations have so far revealed that about 21:00 hours on Thursday last (August 20) Beharry was behaving abnormally in his cell located in the Social Block, when he was attacked by two other inmates and sustained injuries.
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