Shocked kite flyer still hospitalised

Clinton Charles, 20, the Sophia resident who was shocked while attempting to retrieve a kite stuck on a utility pole last week, remains an admitted patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing severe burns about his body.

Charles fell from the pole in front of his house at approximately 10am last week Wednesday, minutes after he left to fly his kite.

“I said son, no more kite,” Charles’ mother Beverly Williams told Stabroek News. Williams said minutes later, she heard something explode and the