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Gold trader fatally stabbed at crowded market
…death pushes murder rate to 129
Police are probing the country’s latest murder, that of gold trader Kelvin Caines, 42, of Lot 236 Lodge Housing Scheme, Georgetown, who died shortly after he was stabbed at the Stabroek Market Square yesterday.
The killing which occurred around 03:30 hrs yesterday pushed the 
murder rate to 129.
According to reports, Caines, a father of two, was sitting at the first gate at the Stabroek Market, conducting his normal gold business when a man, who was later identified by family members, approached him with a knife and stabbed the gold trader once, under his left arm and escaped.
He was immediately rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) but died while receiving medical assistance.
Yesterday, when Kaieteur News arrived at the scene, relatives and police were at loggerhead over the dead man’s scooter which was parked a stone’s throw from where the attacked occurred.
Relatives wanted to take the scooter home while investigators requested that it be taken to the police station until the investigation is completed but this apparently angered family members who lambasted the police and who shouted “go find the killer.”
There are reports that the dead man had a total of $600,000 with him along with a gold chain but when he was attacked “a woman like she tek half and another man pick up part, but he give the family it. Some other person tek his chain,” a relative who asked to be anonymous said.
Although the Stabroek Market is known to be crowded, especially around the Christmas season, no one reportedly saw when the attack occurred; not even the vendors who were just a few steps away from him.
The police however did not take “I didn’t see what happen” for the answer, they arrested three vendors and promised to hold them until “somebody talk.”
Family members believe that the killing was planned by someone who “probably had an eye” on Caines’s gold. The man who is accused of the killing is said to be a person of unsound mind and well known to the dead man’s family.
“His woman who he went living with died only last Saturday and everybody was preparing for the funeral,” a relative, Jacqueline Caines, said.
In October last, bandits broke into the 42-year-old man’s home and stole $2.8M worth in gold. The dead man’s female associate, who is now dead, had accused his (Caines) brother and his friend of the robbery and they were both remanded to prison.
Early yesterday the 42-year-old man went to court and declined to prosecute his brother but did not do so for his friend. Family members are now trying to solve the puzzle regarding the real motive for the killing since the fatal stabbing occurred a few hours after the man walked out from the court room.
Up to late last night the attacker was not still at large but someone spoke about seeing the “culprit” at Tiger Bay.
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