GDF officer charged for manslaughter

Georgetown :Today GDF Lance Corporal Kurt Belgrave, 23 years of Cemetery Road, Lodge, Georgetown, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton charged with Manslaughter committed on Colombian National Jose Arturo Castello Balcazar, and was remanded to prison until June 20, 2011, for court at Kamarang.

Jose Arturo Castello Balcazar was allegedly shot and killed while travelling in a boat in the Wenamu River in the vicinity of Eteringbang on April 16, 2011.