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Melisa Arokium’s boyfriend is among four persons in custody for her murder and that of her eight-year-old son, Anthony.

Those in custody are: the boyfriend, 37-year-old Shailendra Umrao; her brother who lives with her, 33-year-old Serrana Arokium; another brother who made the discovery, 26-year-old Nicholas Arokium and the woman’s neighbour, 38-year-old Deo Naris.

The Police suspect that the 31-year-old self-employed woman and her son were dead for several hours before they were found in a pool of blood at their Rose Hall Town, Corentyne home on Wednesday.

The alleged double-murder occurred between 06:30 hrs and 13:30 hrs on Wednesday.

Dead: Melisa Arokium and Anthony Arokium

According to the statement from the Police, investigations indicate that Arokium sustained multiple chop wounds to the back of her neck, one wound to the left waist and one chop wound to the left upper hand.

Anthony’s body was also examined and it revealed that he suffered from several chop wounds to his right side, head, and face.

The bodies were escorted yesterday to the Port Mourant Hospital and certified dead by a doctor on duty. The bodies are at Arokium’s Funeral Home, awaiting post-mortem examinations.

The Police investigations are ongoing.

Coach Peter Persaud talks about the camp 

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Chief Executive Officer of Queensway Security Inc. Mohamed Qualander (right) addressing the participants in the presence of Admin Assistant, Geeta Persaud

While he encouraged the participants to take the game seriously, the businessman also reminded them of the importance of investing time and effort into their academic upliftment.

Discipline, Qualander highlighted, must be a key element in their upbringing, adding that cricket teaches this important trait that they must inculcate in every facet of their life.

Geeta Persaud (right), Admin Assistant of Queensway Security Inc., presents the sponsorship to Manager of GCC, Rudolph Singh

The CEO added that Queensway Security Inc. will continue to invest in their development by sponsorship future camp.

He also pledged to assist participants who may be in need of gear or any other form of help in their cricketing pursuit.

At the official launch of the camp in early August, Chief Operations Officer of Queensway Security Inc. Lancelot Khan said support of the initiative by the club is one that falls under the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme.

Executive member of GCC Jonathan Yearwood hailed the significance of the support from Qualander and his establishment, pointing out that the growth and development of the game and cricketers starts at the club level.

“It is vitally important for us to have sponsorship, and sponsors like Queensway. We really do appreciate that. They have been a tremendous help to get this programme off the ground,” Yearwood said.

During the camp, which is being conducted on weekdays from 09:00h to 13:00h, the youngsters are being exposed to professional coaching in the areas of batting, bowling and fielding, lectures on discipline, game awareness, team building and interaction with senior and junior national players.

Coaching sessions are being supervised by Peter Persaud, Clive Grimmond and Orin Bailey.

The annual summer camp, which resumed last year after a short break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, actually started in the 1980s, with a series of national players at all levels having their grounding in this developmental activity.

Some of those players who went on to play international cricket include Carl Hooper, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Reon King, Leon Johnson and Vishaul Singh.