- killed in Buxton shoot-out
GUYANA Defence Force (GDF) Corporal Ivor Williams, who was fatally shot by gunmen who ambushed a vehicle in which he was travelling last January 24, in the vicinity of Church of God and Company Roads, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, will be buried today.

The 24-year-old soldier will be accorded full military honours before being interred at Eliza Cemetery, about three villages away from his home village, Dartmouth.

His body will be flown to Kayman Sankar hangar, Hampton Court, also on Essequibo Coast, from where it would be transported to his parents’ residence, at Church Street, Dartmouth and on to the Seventh-Day Baptist Church, in Dartmouth, as well, for the funeral service.

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds is among those expected to represent the Government.

In the same shoot-out between the bandits and soldiers, another soldier, Private Cohen Torrington and a civilian, Thelma Cromwell, 29, of Lot 138 Friendship, on East Coast Demerara were also injured.

Torrington suffered wounds to his left hand, left leg and right side stomach while Cromwell was wounded on the right leg.