U.S embassy employee found dead

Bridgetown.

The body of George Gaines, 51, a security official with the United States Embassy  in Barbados, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at White Sands Beach, Dover, Christ Church this morning.

According to reports, a guard at a nearby hotel heard a gunshot in the early hours of the morning, a tourist discovered  the body just after 8.30 a.m.  A gun was found at the scene.