Latest update October 9th, 2026 10:27 AM
Brother chops sister
– over refusal to do house cleaning
By Brushell Blackman
Amintra Singh, 43, of 44 Anna Catherina, West Bank Demerara is now a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital after she was chopped several times about the body by her brother, Odal Singh yesterday.
According to the woman’s husband, Rabby Singh, the incident is a culmination of days of verbal abuse his wife received from her brother over her refusal to assist in cleaning the house.
“The other day we went deh an he ask me wife fuh clean he house an she refuse”. The distraught husband explained that he and his wife have a kitchen garden on a plot of land at Strathspey on the East Coast of Demerara, where the assailant lives.
Husband of the victim
He said that his wife refused to clean the house because the dwelling place was too filthy. Mrs Singh advised the man to pay someone else to do his bidding.
This advice did not sit well with the irate man started to interfere with his sister and husband whenever they visited the garden nearby. On the day of the chopping incident, a tearful Singh said that the assailant was intoxicated and continued his verbal tirade while sharpening his cutlass.
The father of three said that he did not imagine that the man would have attacked him and his wife. According to him, it was while he and Mrs Singh were watering the vegetables that the man pounced on them. The man told Kaieteur News that his wife did not see the assailant approaching since she was backing him.
Upon seeing the armed man approaching, Singh said he shouted to alert his wife while running for his own safety. His calls failed to alert the woman who was by this time cornered and was dealt several lashes with the cutlass.
The attack ended with her receiving several chops about the body and face.
The man said he watched helplessly as his wife was attacked by her own brother for what he deemed a trivial issue.
After the incident, the attacker calmly walked away, while Singh accompanied his wife to the nearby police station where a report was made.
He said that it was while they were going back to the area with a police rank that they noticed the bloodied assailant being escorted to the police station by his brothers. According to the man, the assailant was cornered and dealt a severe beating by his siblings.
Despite this, Singh said he paid for the taxi to transport his wife and the assailant to the Hospital where the two are now patients, with the assailant under police guard.
The man and his wife were to celebrate their 26th anniversary today. (Additional reporting by Jamal Scott)
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