Willabus, his three sons Padraic Ian, 10, Damani Allistaire, 5 and Deion Lindsey, 3, and his wife Dianne were found dead in their Atlanta apartment last month.

Atlanta Police said autopsies showed Willabus had shot his three sons, his wife and himself.

Willabus, a freelance news writer for CNN International, and his wife were buried in the U.S.

Prior to the burial yesterday, the caskets with the bodies of the three boys were opened for viewing at Sandy's Funeral Parlour in Georgetown where scores of mourners from Willabus' hometown Linden, the city and other communities, assembled to pay their last respects, and to offer condolences to the children's grief stricken mother, Ms. Michelle Pierre and other relatives and friends.

Tucked under the arms of the youngest of the three, Deion Lindsey, whose casket lay at the centre, were three red (sweet scented) 'Valentine' roses.

The boys moved to the U.S. last December to live with their father.

Willabus had remarried after he and the boys' mother divorced.

Willabus was a former GTV news anchor and announcer with the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation.

Originally from, he was at one time a communications student of the University of Guyana.

He was also a flight attendant with the now defunct Guyana Airways Corporation and had contributed to the Caribbean News Agency (CANA), also now closed.