6-Y-O drowns at water-filled excavation pit at Glasgow

A six-year-old boy is now dead after he drowned in a water-filled excavation pit at Glasgow Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice on Sunday afternoon.

The child has been identified as six-year-old Kayden Busey, a former student of All Saints Primary School.

His grieving mother, Gaynow Paul says she has been struggling to come to terms with the tragedy and now blames herself for not being able to keep a closer watch on her children that day.

Busey was among a group of children who left home and went to a water-filled excavation site near Glasgow Housing Scheme on Sunday afternoon.

The group included two 13-year-old girls, an eight-year-old boy and a four-year-old boy.

According to family members, Kayden’s mother, Gaynor Paul, had spent much of the day resting after feeling ill and was unaware that the children had left the yard.

She explained that while she was at home, reports began circulating in the community that a child had gone missing.

When Paul arrived at the excavation site, residents had already begun searching the water.

At that stage, relatives were still hoping that Kayden had wandered away and would eventually return home.

However, information later provided by some of the children who had been at the location suggested that the youngster had entered the water and failed to resurface.

The excavation where the incident occurred is estimated to be about eight feet deep, approximately twenty feet wide and about sixty feet long.

Police and residents later recovered the child’s body from the water before he was transported to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

As family members continue to mourn his passing, his mother says she has repeatedly replayed the events of Sunday afternoon and continues to question whether the outcome would have been different had she not been ill.

The grieving mother is now urging parents and guardians to maintain constant supervision of their children, particularly around waterways and other hazards.