Guyanese couple in St Maarten murder/suicide

Cheryl Withrite

A Guyanese couple died in a murder/suicide on the Caribbean island of St Maarten yesterday morning.

Dead are 52–year old Cheryl Withrite and her 54 year-old partner Cleon Anthony Bourne, called `Tall Boy’, who both lived at Illidge Road St Maarten. Locally, the couple stayed at La Grange Old Road on the West Bank of Demerara.

According to the SMN News, the couple was involved in a heated argument on Saturday night and it later escalated to a fatal ending yesterday. According to the report Withrite, who worked at the