Suspect held at mother’s home

Aug 12, 2010 News

A De Groot Squatting area resident who was reportedly seen calmly walking away with a bloody knife in his hand after fatally knifing Nandalall Bopat, a colleague of his, has been captured.
Up to press time, the twenty-five year-old suspect who was Bopat’s neighbour was being held in police custody to assist with investigations.
Reports are that around noon yesterday acting on information received, police swooped down at his mother’s home where they found him hiding. He was arrested and detained.
On Tuesday last, 43 year-old Nandalall Bopat was mercilessly slashed to death. At the time he was on his way to a friend to charge his cellular phone. Bopat and his alleged attacker were reportedly involved in a conversation the previous day about Bopat’s wife being verbally assaulted by the suspect.
This newspaper was told that Bopat’s wife Doreen Sahadeo Sirnauth made two reports to the Leonora Police Station about the assault but they never responded.
As a result, Bopat’s relatives said after returning from sea on Monday, Bopat decided to talk to his neighbour about the attack on his wife. Persons in the area said the talking between the two men went smoothly and many thought that that was the end of the issue.
However, on Tuesday, as Bopat was making his way out of the street, he was ambushed by his attacker who this newspaper has since learnt is currently nursing a broken leg. Although some residents in the area reportedly saw what was going on, no one ventured out to rescue Bopat, for fear of his knife-wielding attacker.
After the attack, the severely wounded Bopat was rushed to the Leonora Cottage Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Bopat sustained several gaping wounds to the upper part of his body including his abdomen.
Investigations are ongoing.
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Gov’t withdraws enhancement funds from City Hall

– Embarking on its own project

The government is embarking on a $10 million city enhancement programme after a decision was taken to withdraw funding from City Hall for a similar project.
Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday said the withdrawal of funds from the city has nothing to do with inefficiency of the City Council as the government claims, but is just an excuse by the government to find employment for “certain people.” Under a previous arrangement, the government had agreed to provide $10 million a month to City Hall for the enhancement programme, but Green said that only lasted for two months.
On Tuesday, Minister of Local Government Kellawan Lall said he was in consultation with the Ministry of Transport and Hydraulics for the implementation of the state-funded landscaping project.
He said the government withdrew its support to City Hall for the enhancement programme because there was evidence of gross mismanagement of the funds. Green noted that the Council has invested money for the enhancement of the city, so this is not a new initiative.
Lall had charged that the garbage situation in Georgetown has now become a matter of national concern. As a result, he said his ministry would be working aggressively to ensure that the ambience of the city is restored.
The Mayor said several projects were sent to the Minister for his approval, such as increasing the city’s revenue base, but to date the answer has been negative.
In addition, Green reiterated that taxes which existed since 1994 are still in place today, while prices for items the Council would need for its projects, such as fuel and cement, have increased.
Minister Lall said the government is not in support of the City Council raising taxes.
According to the Minister, the Council has not developed any solid base plan or project proposal, what they have are simple ideas that need to be developed.
He pointed out that the Council wants to invest in electricity generation but to date has not provided any concrete documentation on how such an investment would be funded and implemented.
The Mayor has identified this as just another way of government’s will to put a “strong hand” on the Council. He said that the minister cannot “micro manage the Council by dealing directly with officers and then invade against the elected mayor and council.”
The Minister had last Tuesday summoned the Acting Town Clerk Yonette Pluck-Cort; Acting City Treasurer Andrew Meredith and City Engineer Gregory Erskine to discuss the payment of taxes the state owes the Council.

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