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National basketball player critical after fatal Bosai accident
By Edison Jefford
Former junior national basketball player, point guard, Marlon Pollydore was listed as ‘critical’ at the Linden Hospital Complex at Mackenzie, Linden following a fatal Bosai accident that claimed the lives of three sometime around midday yesterday.
Pollydore and Fabian Anthony are the lone survivors after a 100-ton heavy-duty Caterpillar truck reportedly crushed a pick-up truck they were travelling in at the Bosai Bauxite Company, Linden Mines site. Five
Marlon Pollydore
individuals were travelling in the pick-up truck.
Dead are Michael Williams, Trenton Gardener and Kester Grant. Kaieteur Sport understands that Pollydore sustained serious injuries to the head, for which he underwent an emergency surgery at the Linden Hospital Complex yesterday afternoon.
President of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA), BOSAI’s Mines Maintenance Senior Planner, Haslyn Graham, said that he saw Pollydore after the accident and he appeared to be shocked and unable to speak before being rushed to the hospital.
“When I saw him, he looked confused and he was in shock. It was a really sad scene; I hope that things work out for him. I know that he was expected to undergo surgery,” Graham said, adding that family, friends and the basketball community is hoping for the best.
“We are hoping that from the perspective of the LABA, we get a speedy recovery. It has been a really sad situation here,” Graham, who took over as LABA President earlier this year continued. He said that Pollydore has been one of Linden’s iconic young players.
Up to press time this newspaper could not have ascertained an updated report on the status of the surgery. The 20-year old Pollydore attended the New Silver-City Secondary School and Linden’s Technical Institute. He was employed at Bosai as an apprentice mechanic.
Pollydore was a prolific basketball player with the ability to score at will. He represented Guyana at the Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) in 2010 and 2011 where he became the starting guard in his final year of junior national basketball in Suriname. Pollydore is a member of the Victory Valley Royals Basketball Club in Linden.
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