Stanleytown man whose car ended up in trench died by drowning

Joshua Butts

The cause of death of a Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, man whose car ended up in a trench along the Warren Public Road, East Coast Berbice, was drowning.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday informed in a release that Joshua Butts, 21, had drowned. It stated that a post-mortem examination (PME) was conducted at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital Mortuary by Dr V Bridgmohan, a Government Pathologist, in the presence of the police, before his body was handed over to the relatives for burial.