Marriott’s guest dies in JNF Hospital

By Stanford Conway
Editor-in-Chief-SKNVibes.com

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – AN elderly guest of the St. Kitts Marriott Resort and the Royal Beach Casino died on Tuesday at the Joseph N France General Hospital after he had taken ill at the hotel.

Following sketchy reports reaching this media house concerning the incident, Lavern Stevens, Public Relations Manager of the St. Kitts Marriott Resort, was contacted and she briefly outlined what transpired at the hotel on Tuesday, August 26.

She however did not provide SKNVibes with the name and gender of the deceased, but noted it was an elderly person.

“We extend our thoughts and prayers to the family of an elderly guest of the St. Kitts Marriott Resort and the Royal Beach Casino, who was found dazed near a hotel stairway on the morning of August 26,” the Public Relations Manager told SKNVibes.

She explained that on discovery of the guest in a dazed condition, personnel of the Emergency Medical Services were immediately notified and they took the elderly person to the hospital.   ~~Adz:Right~~

“Unfortunately,” she added, “the guest passed away in Joseph N France Hospital after being taken there by ambulance.”

Stevens also informed that the cause of the guest’s death has not been confirmed by the medical authorities.

This has been the second incident in as many weeks in which guests of the St. Kitts Marriott Resort have died.

On Wednesday, August 13, five-year-old Malique Thomas of Tabernacle Village was pronounced dead by Dr. Leroy Richardson, a medical practitioner assigned to the St. Kitts Marriott Resort, after his motionless body was taken out from under the water of a pool at the Resort.

Barbadian Pathologist Dr. Stephen Jones performed a post mortem on the remains of Thomas on Saturday, August 16 and reported that he died of drowning.

STOP PRESS: Investigations done by this media house revealed that the person who  died on Tuesday is not elderly  as reported, but a "senior citizen", according to a well-placed source.

SKNVibes also learnt that the deceased name is Llewelyn Newton of Zion, Nevis, and he was attending a meeting in St. Kitts when the incident occurred. Efforts to contact his wife were futile, who it is said was not in a condition to speak to the media at the time.