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Yet another prisoner death
By Wendella Davidson - Guyana Chronicle
A 51-year-old remand inmate of the New Amsterdam prison died Sunday before receiving medical attention at the New Amsterdam Hospital.

Reports reaching the Chronicle states that Cheddi Brijbilal, formerly of Mibicuri South, Black Bush Polder, had sometime after 06:30 h complained to other inmates in his cell that he was feeling unwell.

He opted to relax; but as his condition worsened, prison authorities took him to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he succumbed before seeing a medical practitioner.

A post mortem is to be conducted to determine the cause of death.

Brijbilal’s death brings to four the number of sudden deaths of inmates in the country’s jails recently.

On July 11, Edwin Niles, 30, of Guyhoc Park, who was incarcerated at the Camp Street penitentiary on a narcotics charge, died at the Georgetown Hospital. He was admitted at the institution on July 3 with a broken arm and burns on his shoulders, back and buttocks.

Niles was serving a three-year sentence for narcotics possession and was to have been released sometime in September [2008!!!].