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Lance Corporal Latchana
cremated By Michel Moses
LANCE Corporal 14177 Ramnarine Latchana, who was fatally shot on March 1, at the Brickdam Police Station when former policeman Solomon Blackman went berserk, was cremated yesterday at the Good Hope Crematorium, East Coast Demerara. He was accorded full military honours.
Latchana family members (from left) mother, Coonia, daughter Samantha and wife, Rohini, Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj and Commissioner of Police Winston Felix among the congregation at the funeral service of Lance Corporal Ramnarine Latchana yesterday at Life Spring Ministries. The
cremation followed a moving service at Life Spring
Ministries, Kersaint Park, La Bonne Intention (LBI), also on
the East Coast. Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Ronald Gajraj, Commissioner of Police, Mr. Winston Felix and other senior officers and ranks were among scores who paid homage to the 39-year-old policeman who reportedly died on the spot after Blackman shot him.
Constable Kester
Cosbert, who was shot during Blackman’s rampage, came out
on crutches yesterday to bid his colleague farewell. Latchana’s
body was at the Merriman’s Funeral Home, Lime and Bent
Streets, Wortmanville, yesterday morning before it was taken
to his residence, Ruimveldt Police Station Compound. At
the church, tributes were paid, solos were rendered and
poems were recited. The Police Band and its Mixed Voice
Choir also paid musical tributes. The policeman’s daughter, Samantha, his wife, Rohini, and his mother, Coonia, wept throughout the service.
Policemen in ceremonial attire escorting their colleague’s body to the Good Hope Crematorium yesterday afternoon. (Pictures
by Winston Oudkerk)
When the service concluded, Latchana’s body was taken to the Crematorium, a short distance away. There, Latchana’s daughter, wife, mother, other relatives and colleagues burst into tears as his pyre was set alight. Friday,
March 07, 2003
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