Latest update January 20th, 2025 4:00 AM
Insurance Executive’s murder… Barmaid, relative identify alleged killer
A barmaid and a relative of slain insurance executive Bert Whyte have positively identified a former hospital employee as the individual who was in Whyte’s company shortly before he was slain.
Kaieteur News understands that they identified Whyte’s companion from photographs that were shown to them by investigators.
Bert Whyte
Police believe that the suspect is a former security guard at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
According to sources, the barmaid told police that Whyte and the suspect had visited the city nightspot where she works on the night he was murdered.
Another relative told police that the same individual was in Whyte’s car when the insurance executive picked up his niece from a private school that day. Kaieteur News was told that a male relative also recalled seeing the suspect and Whyte drinking at the victim’s Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara home.
According to a sister of the slain man, last Mother’s Day, Whyte, a former GPHC personnel manager, had confided that he had been threatened by a GPHC employee whom he had fired on three occasions.
Whyte’s sister alleged that her brother also said that the former employee later apologized, and her brother “dropped the matter, because he (Whyte) and the former employee were “alright.”
“The very next day he was murdered.”
Checks of Whyte’s movements on the night of his death revealed that he had picked up his niece from a private school in the city. The child told detectives that there was another man who was unfamiliar to her in Whyte’s car when she was picked up.
Instead of taking his niece home, Whyte reportedly dropped the girl off at the Stabroek Speedboat Stelling for her to make her way home to Pouderoyen.
Accompanied by his killer, he then made the fateful journey to Bentinck Street, Tiger Bay. Reports indicate that the suspect was driving while Whyte, a Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Life Insurance Company Limited Manager, was in the front passenger seat.
Whyte, of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, was seen later, struggling with another man in his car before exiting the vehicle and running into Main Street and collapsing outside of a Main Street Restaurant and Bar.
“The police say that they are getting misleading information about his whereabouts. It’s a month and a week (since the murder) and we are nowhere nearer (to finding the suspect),” Whyte’s sister lamented.
“My brother’s murder was a set-up.”
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