US college student drowns while swimming in Linden 

In a tragic turn of events, an 18-year-old college student from Atlanta, Georgia, United States who came to Guyana to celebrate his birthday, drowned while swimming at Coomacka Mines, Linden, Region 10.

Dead is Demarius Wilabus Payne. The incident occurred on December 26, 2024.

Police Headquarters reported that a post-mortem examination done on December 30, 2024, revealed that the teen drowned.

According to reports, Payne was with relatives at the creek. While swimming, he ventured out to the deep part of the creek and attempted to cross over to the other side of the creek and drowned. The family members along with others searched the creek and Payne was fished out of the creek in an unconscious state.

He was pronounced dead at the Linden Hospital.