FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 02, 2024
VOLUME 118, No.05
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FATAL ACCIDENT IN TROUMACA:
‘STOP SPREADING RUMORS’ Left: Maurice Murphy was the owner/manager of a well-known cleaning service here.
The two persons who fell out of the bus can be seen hanging onto the bus as it moved off from the bus stop.
Right: Causilda Harry refuted rumours that her father, Maurice Murphy, was drunk when the car he was driving crashed into a wall. Below: The state of the vehicle as it came to a halt after it crashed into a wall.
by DAYLE DASILVA THERE WAS NO ALCOHOL, neither was Maurice Murphy guilty of reckless driving. So declared Causilda Harry, daughter of 58-yearold Maurice Murphy of Redemption Sharpes, who died on the spot when the vehicle - a Silver Honda Civic Car, P6486 - that he was driving in the company of two other occupants, slammed into a wall in Troumaca on
January 26. The two passengers, according to a police report, were Kenroy James, 43 years old. and Lesroy Irish, 22 years, both of redemption Sharpes. The men were making their way to Richmond on a fishing trip and according to Harry, there were rumors being circulated that her father was drunk and that he was speeding. “It is nothing like that,” Harry told THE VINCENTIAN. Continued on Page 3.
TWO CHARGED IN OMNIBUS ORDEAL by KENVILLE HORNE A CONDUCTOR AND THE DRIVER of an omnibus that was involved in an incident in which two persons fell out of it while it was in motion, have been arrested and charged. A video which captured the incident and which went viral was the source of a preliminary investigation by the police. It showed the omnibus leaving the bus stop at Richmond Hill and moments later, two people falling out of the vehicle. Following their investigation, the police issued a statement which read inter alia: “In response to the video that circulated on social media over the weekend, in which two persons allegedly fell out of an omnibus, an inquiry has been begun, and Continued on Page 3.