Taxi driver’s battered body found off Corentyne highway

Jun 11, 2010 News

Dead: Trevor Kissoon

By Melissa Johnson

NUMBER SEVEN VILLAGE, CORENTYNE – The battered body of a taxi driver was found yesterday morning in a canal at Number Seven Village, which is along the Number Nineteen Highway. Dead is 27-year-old Trevor Kissoon, of 25 Alexander Street in New Amsterdam, an employee of the J&N Taxi Service.
According to police in Division ‘B’, Kissoon was dispatched to locate a passenger at the Canje Turn just after 23:00hrs on Wednesday and subsequently was not heard from.
Yesterday at around 11:15hrs, they (police) received a telephone call from a resident in the said area informing them that a body was in the canal. There were severe wounds to the head and one above the right eye which from initial investigations appeared to have resulted from a blow with a blunt object.
Up to late yesterday afternoon, the victim’s car, a silver Carina AT 212, HB 7489, had not been recovered.
Premchand Rajaram, whose son Sattish Rajaram owns the J&N Taxi Service at Trinity and Main Streets in New Amsterdam, said the business has been in operation for five months and the driver began working shortly after. According to him, a man called the base requesting a taxi about 23:00 hours.
“The person say they would be at Canje Turn and Trevor left to go. Trevor call the base about two something this (yesterday) morning saying he at Number Thirty-six Village coming back up to New Amsterdam. When he called then, he said the passenger told him he stopping at Church View because he has two suitcases to pick up and then go back to Skeldon.”
According to the older Rajaram, the victim’s reputed wife made contact with the base enquiring of his whereabouts, “His wife came out about two something this morning and enquired, because she said he was to pick her up from some party. She called his phone and somebody else, a male, answer his cell and say he is in a house doing something and the phone went dead. So they call back after then and never got through to him again.”
Trevor Kissoon was said to be working the 12-hour shift from 19:00 hours (Wednesday) to 07:00 hours yesterday.

Distraught relatives wail at the sight of their loved one

“Trevor was an alright guy. He had no problem with anybody. He was just a simple guy. If they wanted the car they coulda just push the guy out and take it. Is a life we talking about.”
The service ceased operations about 09:00 hours yesterday and they went in search of their driver.
One of Trevor Kissoon’s brothers, Stanley Ramsammy, said family members had no idea what transpired, “This (yesterday) morning we got a call from his fiancée saying she didn’t hear from him since last (Wednesday) night. We informed the police and we began searching. We later found him dead on the Number Nineteen road. His head…at the back was battered. His eyes…both of them were dug out.”
Like everyone else, he described Trevor Kissoon as a people’s person, loved by everybody, with no known threats or enemies.
A close friend, Sean Babb of Nicholay Street in New Amsterdam, last saw Trevor Kissoon on Wednesday night. According to him, the dead man’s sister Juanita Burrowes, celebrated her birth anniversary and a ‘get together’ was held at the Rainbow Bar at Charles Place.
“He was working and each time the man pass he blow (honked his horn) on we because he girl was there. This morning his brother come to me shedding tears and say dem ain’t finding Trevor. Even his work place didn’t getting no communication with him on the radio set or on his cell phone.” He called him a cool guy with no enemies.
When Kaieteur News arrived on the scene at the Number Nineteen Highway, his relatives were there along with a small crowd. Police ranks had already secured the scene and the body was being prepared for removal by undertakers from the Arokium Funeral Parlour.
Family members and friends wept bitterly, none of them had anticipated that a mundane day would have had such a bitter ending. Juanita Burrowes, between tears, recalled that her brother lived with his girlfriend Alexis Thompson. He was said to be the seventh of 12 children.