Miner beaten at Imbaimadai landing

Feb 23, 2013 News

… may lose sight

Dellon Yorrick shows injuries to his eyes

Dellon Yorrick, 27, a miner from Timehri is suffering from a severely damaged eye following a beating by the hands of a gang of men which included a member of the Guyana Police Force at an Imbaimadai landing.
Yorrick is still trying to figure out the reason for what he described as, the unjustified pounding he received almost two Saturdays ago.
“I don’t know is what happen. Me and nobody ain’t got no problem. I de just talking to a girl pun the landing when a set a men start beating me. One was a policeman; me ain’t know he because he new in the area. They jook me all in me eye wid a bottle.”
The man claims that he was unable to retaliate because he was knocked unconscious during the encounter.
He said that although he cannot name the policeman who brutalized him he is sure to point him out.
“ After they beat me they throw me inside the lock up without seeing a medic. Is not until the next day that I had to fly out and get to Georgetown hospital quick. I still trying to mek sense of this thing cause I never had problems with no police or so. I does wuk up (Imbaimadai) for years now,” Yorrick lamented.
The father of two is looking to the relevant authorities for assistance to ensure he gets justice.
Yorrick claims that since the incident he has undergone an emergency surgery for his damaged iris and received at least 13 stitches to regions of both eyes. He was unable to get any assistance from the police in locating his assailants.
“I can hardly see. I got to keep running to the doctor and I feeling plenty pain in my skin. I can’t understand why I going through this sort a thing I don’t get problem wid people.”
The resident of Hyde Park, Timehri, says that he has been mining in the Imbaimadai community for more than ten years and wants to continue his trade without any further conflict with the police or otherwise.
“I got to keep checking wid the doctor cause I ain’t really getting to see well now. I got to get assistance from my family to move around. I get medication so I hope it get better.”
Yorrick said that his livelihood is at stake since he can possibly lose his sight.