A conversation about dinner turned out to be the final exchange between 27-year-old butcher Jermaine Smart and his partner before he died in a motorcycle collision in the Black Bush Polder on Wednesday evening.

Smart, of Hampshire Housing Scheme, Corentyne, died while receiving treatment at the Mibicuri Public Hospital following the crash, which occurred at about 18:30h along the Mibicuri Public Road.

According to police, Smart was riding motorcycle CP 1482 west along the roadway when a collision occurred with another motorcycle being ridden by a 14-year-old student of the Mibicuri Secondary School.