Woman in Cuyuni boat crash ‘coming around’, husband says

Nandanie Singh

Nandanie Singh, the woman whose baby died in a boat accident in the Cuyuni River on Sunday morning, was up to last night still in the Georgetown Public Hospital. But her husband George Simmons said she was looking as though she was coming around.

The woman was being treated for severe head injuries after the boat that she, her baby daughter and her husband George were travelling in collided with another some distance from Aranka. The nine-month-old girl, Sara Simmons, died instantly.

The man explained to this newspaper that he and his wife were seated in the last row of the boat and he opted to jump over to