Police probing Clonbrook hit-and-run

Jul 01, 2026 News

– $200,000 reward offered for information leading to arrest

(Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has launched an investigation into hit-and-run accident that left two bikers dead along the Railway Embankment at Clonbrook, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Relatives of the deceased, Collis Bristol, called “Cappo,” and Akeem Burgess, known as “Burnham,” both of Nabaclis Village, ECD have since put out a $200,000 award for anyone who has information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators.

Kaieteur News understands that Bristol and Burgess were on a bike when a car hit them. The car drove away from the scene.

Collis Bristol, called ‘Cappo’ and Akeem Burgess, known as ‘Burnham’

Public-spirited citizens later responded to assist the men, but they were pronounced dead at the Enmore Regional Hospital by the time they were transported there for treatment.

In an invited comment, Traffic Chief, Mahendra Singh said while the accident is unfortunate, commuters should be wary of roads that are under construction.

The traffic chief believes that the accident could have probably avoided had the motorists paid attention to the fact that the road was not open.

“That road is not commissioned… The railway embankment is under active expansion works, and so they were not supposed to go there,” he said adding under those circumstances, it would difficult to garner information if an accident occurs.

He explained, “When the road is under construction, there is no CCTV and in the absence of CCTV cameras, you depend on eyewitnesses to actually help you with active information.”

Singh said nonetheless that the commander of the East Coast Division, along with his traffic team and also traffic headquarters, are actively engaging an investigation.

“We are looking to see what we can gather, that points us in the direction of our vehicle number where we’ll approach the GRA to get ownership, and then seek to make an arrest…It has to be somebody who knows the area. Let me be very honest with you, because if you don’t know the area, you wouldn’t have been driving the area at that time.”

According to the officer, the bid to put out a reward for information concerning the accident should help with the investigation.

“I noticed the family put out a reward for that should help too, because it’s the same things we are looking for and by elicit the information, and somebody will come forward with the vehicle number …Sometimes we look at things as always from a structured way, and then the other people who are affected meaning the family, does something like this and it helps because somebody will definitely come forward with some information that will be very useful to us,” he said.

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