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Moruca accident leaves miner dead
Twenty-eight year-old Gregory James lost his life on Friday last, after being involved in an accident at Moruca in the North West District.
Reports are that James, formerly of Queenstown Village, on the Essequibo Coast, was traveling in a “mining truck” when the vehicle toppled over a hill at Moruca.
His mother, Reena James, told this newspaper that her son was a former policeman who later worked with the Guyana Prison Service before joining the mining sector.
Gregory James
She explained that the young man was diagnosed with malaria after spending a short while in the interior and returned to their residence at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara (EBD) for a recovery which lasted three months.
On August 6, he returned to work in the North West area, and was residing with some of his relatives there.
On the day of the accident, his relatives were not aware that James had left to “go on the truck”.
Late that afternoon they received word that he was involved in the accident which claimed his life.
“He wasn’t supposed to be on that truck. It toppled somewhere and this happened. We are not sure what the details are. The body is now in Georgetown. He was very jovial, and loving towards the family. Everyone knew him,” said his mother.
Another family member said the family received the sad news on Friday, at around 17:00 hours.
The woman said that the information received suggested that James was sitting in the cabin when the truck toppled, pinning him beneath.
The family was told that the other persons on the truck managed to jump out of the vehicle but James was not that lucky.
His body was later taken to the Oscar Joseph Hospital in Charity, before being lodged at the Sandy’s funeral home in Georgetown, on Saturday morning.
When his father Baldeo James was contacted, he told this newspaper that he heard of his son’s death at Moruca and declined to share any other information.
“All I heard was my son dead at Moruca and presently I am at Sandy’s funeral home in Georgetown.”
James leaves to mourn his wife, six-year-old daughter and other relatives.
Over a week ago, two persons lost their lives after a truck toppled over also in the North West District.
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