Latest update December 13th, 2024 1:00 AM
Lecturer’s vehicle doused with corrosive liquid
The damaged section of the car
Terrence Esseboom
The vehicle of lecturer and local journalist, Terrence Esseboom, was yesterday doused with a corrosive liquid by an irate resident of the Kingston, Georgetown area, in the vicinity of the Digicel Headquarters.
Esseboom, his wife Vanessa and 22-year-old daughter Prenacia had travelled to Digicel to conduct some business, but suitable parking proved to be a difficult exercise.
Speaking with this newspaper last evening Esseboom’s wife said that the incident happened sometime between 10:00hrs and 10:30hrs yesterday.
She explained that they parked a short distance from Digicel and her husband exited the car and went to speak to a Digicel employee that he knew and her daughter was in the car calling her brother on the telephone who also works at Digicel.
Mrs Esseboom said that she heard a voice shouting for them not to park there and she noticed a man in the building located next to Digicel shouting at her.
She said she attempted to get her husband but he had already entered the building.
The woman explained that the man exited the building went to a parked pickup and took a small bottle out of it and went back into the building.
She said that the downstairs of the building appeared to be a bar of some kind, but it was closed, so it was not that she was hampering the entrance, but she continued looking for another parking spot, not wanting a confrontation with the irate resident.
She said that it was out of the corner of her eyes that she noticed that the man had appeared on his verandah and proceeded to open the cork on the bottle.
Suspecting that something was amiss she shouted for her daughter to exit the car and the man poured the substance that had an ominous odour which damaged the paint of the vehicle’s bonnet.
By then her husband and son had returned and a small crowd had gathered and they removed the car and called the police.
She said that ranks converged on the scene, but after failing to gain entry or get a response from anyone in the premises, they left.
The Essebooms subsequently provided statements to the police and the damaged vehicle was photographed by the police.
Esseboom, who was a former spokesman of the then Guyana Electricity Corporation now lectures at the Centre for Communication Studies at the University of Guyana.
Esseboom previously worked at the Guyana Chronicle and the Caribbean News Agency / Caribbean Media Corporation
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