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Guard severely beaten at worksite succumbs
Well known Berbice resident, security guard and former Berbice cricketer Frederick Nathaniel Minty, 78, of 4 Cumberland, East Canje, died around 21:00 hrs on Sunday evening at the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Hospital after he was rushed there from the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Dead: Frederick Minty
Minty who worked as a security guard with A Nabi and Son at Mud Lot Stanleytown for the past 10 years was bludgeoned by two bandits who invaded his worksite on Thursday night. According to information the men attacked the elderly man with pieces of wood and severely beat him before escaping with his phone, bicycle, a small television and a bag with his Identification and NIS Cards, pension book and personal items.
According to the man’s son, Ezra Minty, a school teacher and Deacon in his church, his father left home as was customary around 15:00 hrs on his bicycle to go to work.
“He would leave early because he was a very friendly man and would stop along the way to converse with family and friends”.
Ezra Minty stated that his father would work during the night and it was a routine thing for him. He said that they received a call around 06:30 hrs informing that his father had been beaten and was at the New Amsterdam Hospital. The younger Minty immediately rushed to the hospital where he saw his father being tended to in the emergency room by doctors. The senior Minty received many injuries including three broken ribs, a punctured lung, black and blue marks around his eyes, a broken shoulder and other bruises about his body. He was subsequently transferred to the Georgetown Hospital around 11:30 hrs on the same day.
Minty, a father of 16, including seven with his wife of over 43 years, Florizell Minty, worked as a Quantity Surveyor with the Ministry of Public Works for a number of years before doing duties with a number of security services.
The man who lived with his wife, two children, a daughter in law and grandson, was a former cricketer and was a prominent fixture in the first division circle in the ‘60s, ‘70s – a feared batsman who represented Berbice.
Minty is also survived by two brothers and four sisters.
The body has been transferred to New Amsterdam and a Post Mortem Examination is to be performed soon. Investigations are continuing.
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