Best sworn-in to probe Rock Creek mining pit death

Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and Commissioner Gary Best at his swearing in ceremony yesterday. (Photo by Keno George)

Just over one week after Ann’s Grove resident Keon Wilson died in a mining pit collapse at Rock Creek, Puruni, Rear Admiral (ret’d) Gary Best was yesterday sworn in to lead the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into his death.

Best, who is the Presidential Advisor on the Environment, was sworn in by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday morning.

Wilson, 33, was killed around 4.30 pm on October 8, when a