Suspect in Mahaica rice farmer’s murder arrested

A man was on Saturday evening arrested in connection with the June 1 robbery/murder of East Coast Demerara rice farmer Hardat Kissoon, who was shot once to his chest and robbed of a bag containing money while he was in a minibus heading home.

Kissoon, called `Buju’ of Cane Grove, Mahaica died instantly on June 1 after being shot once in the chest by a gunman who escaped on a motorcycle which was parked on the University of Guyana access road. At the time of the incident, he was returning from a city bank where he had changed a cheque