The body that was fished out of the Canje River on Monday has been identified as that of Dwayne Vieira, a patient who escaped from the New Amsterdam Psychiatric Hospital (NAPH) on Saturday.
Police are waiting on the man’s relatives to identify his remains before a post-mortem examination is performed. Reports are that Vieira, 38 of Georgetown, was one of 25 persons who were “cleaned up” from the streets of the city during the recent Union of South American (UNASUR) summit and taken to the NAPH.
The decomposing body was discovered floating in the Canje River around 9 am on Monday. It was clad in a pair
