Two dead, one badly injured at rum factory

Police officers examine the area where a retaining wall at St Vincent Distillers Limited in Georgetown collapsed killing two construction workers yesterday.

Two construction workers died and third was yesterday fighting for his life in hospital after a retaining wall at the St Vincent Distillery at Mt Bentick, Georgetown collapsed on them.

Dead are Delarno Spencer and Maxwell Seales, while Cameron Moore has been hospitalised.

It was about 2:30 p.m. when the aunt of Judy Prince of New Adelphi received a call from the owner of Fraser Construction about the incident at the Distillery.

Judy Prince, the girlfriend of the deceased 44-year-old Spencer told journalists on Monday afternoon while being consoled by family members that she and Spencer had been together for 12 years. Spencer is originally from Chateaubelair but he and Prince live together at New Adelphi.

Delarno Spencer

Judy Prince (white sleeveless top), girlfriend of one of the deceased, rushes to the St Vincent Distillers Limited where the tragic incident occured.

The other victim Maxwell Seales lives at Calliaqua. Project manager, Sendi Haynes described the men as very good and dependable workers. When the incident occurred Haynes was off site tending to other company business.

Haynes said Seales has been working with the company for over a year, while Spencer has been working on and off for about two years.

Haynes said the men were working on a concrete wall when it collapsed. Fraser Construction had been contracted to extend that wall.

Residents at the scene lamented that in about the space of about seven months, three deaths involving construction workers have occurred at the Distillery.

On Monday, June 4, 2021, 67 year old Lyder Corke fell to his death through the roof of the distillery where he had supposedly been changing galvanise sheeting.

Project manager of Fraser Construction, Sendi Haynes, (left), consoles Judy Prince (centre), girlfriend of one of the men who died tragically when a retaining wall collapsed at St Vincent Distillers Limited in Georgetown.

Corke, a contractor of Chilli Village, Georgetown fell after he apparently stepped on fibre glass.

Cauldric “Punty” Fraser (right), proprietor of Fraser Construction, consoles Judy Prince, girlfriend of Delarno Spencer, just outside the premises of St Vincent Distillers Limited, where Spencer and fellow employee of Fraser Construction Maxwell Seales perished when a retaining wall fell on them.

Corke was described as a soft-spoken Christian.