While others were ushering in Guyana’s Golden Jubilee at D’Urban Park last evening, Alieka Davis was mourning the loss of her son, who died after being hit by a truck that was transporting steel pans at the North Ruimveldt Secondary School.
Kevon Scipio, a third form student of the Richard Ishmael Secon-dary School and member of the Pan Wave Steel Orchestra, one of the groups scheduled to play at the flag raising ceremony, had not long before left rehearsals at the D’Urban Park when tragedy struck.
According to reports confirmed by the boy’s mother, the 14-year-old bass player was