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Feb 22, 2009 News
Valentine’s Day, which was recently celebrated here in Guyana and all over the world, is for most people one of the most romantic days of the year.
Many look forward to this day with joyful anticipation, knowing that their loved ones would shower them with gifts and/or love.
It is the one day of the year that is celebrated by both the old and young, those in love, those who think they are in love, those infatuated, and even those who merely pretend to be in love.
Whichever of these scenarios fit, most people seem content with whatever they receive, whether it is out of love or lust!
There are many persons, however, who this last Valentine’s Day had no lover, wife or husband to shower with love or gifts.
Carol Allicock, 33, is one of those persons. On this last Valentine’s Day, all she could lay claim to were painful memories of her late husband, Vanburn Allicock.
Vanburn was allegedly killed by his employer on January 20 last after a misunderstanding at Sand Hills up the Demerara River, where he worked and also resided with his wife Carol and three children.
Carol, whose only wish right now is to see the killer be made to feel the brunt of the law, is still too distraught to speak of that dreadful day.
“My husband was a loving man and a great father, who was fully committed to taking care of his family. He was employed by the same man who murdered him, as a driver and farm-hand.”
Vanburn Allicock would have celebrated his 32nd birthday on February 13. The grieving widow said that her mother-in-law witnessed the brutal killing, but to date she is not sure whether the killer was ever apprehended by the police and, if he was, why his photograph was not published in the local media.
Meanwhile life for Carol Allicock, a school teacher and mother of three, could never be the same again. Her only wish last Valentine’s Day was that the man who stole the love of her life and her children’s father be made to pay for his crime!
(Enid Joaquin)
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