Murders soar to fifty-four

May 30, 2011 News

– 13 women slain, 28 cases still unsolved

By Michael Jordan

Fifty-four people have now been murdered between January and May 29. The victims include 13 women, three of whom were slain by their male partners within seven days.

Carlos Pesaud

Statistics compiled by Kaieteur News indicate that 18 victims died from gunshot injuries; 16 from stab and cutlass wounds, eleven from beatings, and four were strangled.

Brian Chung

According to the statistics, 15 persons were slain during altercations; there were 13 “crime of passion” murders; another 13 were slain during robberies, and six were victims of execution-style killings.
Twenty-eight of the 54 murders remain unsolved.
The figures compiled by this newspaper also show ‘A’ Division with 21 murders, followed by eleven in E and F Division; seven apiece for C and D Divisions, four in ‘B’ Division and one in G Division.
Nine of the 13 women were slain by their partners, while three were elderly females who were slain in their homes. One other woman, Mrs. Sharanie Doobay, was also murdered in her home, but the motive is still unclear.
On January 3, Saleema Mohan, a 21-year-old teacher, was stabbed to death by her common-law husband.
He hanged himself before police could arrest him. On January 31, nursery school teacher Shaunell Warwick, succumbed from a brutal cutlass beating, allegedly at the hands of her reputed husband.
Natalie Loncke, 41, also a nursery school teacher, was stabbed to death by her partner during a quarrel at her Norton Street, Wortmanville home
Ramdarrie Rajpattie, 57, of Laluni, on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway, was beaten to death by her reputed husband, while 20-year-old Farida Ramdeen, called ‘Susie’, was allegedly slain by her lover and dumped in a canal on the Houston Estate.

Susilla Latchman

Sonobia James was stabbed to death outside the Red Dragon nightspot during a dispute with another woman, while Special Constable Neibert Issacs-Bacon, was beaten to death and dumped in a canal in ‘D’ Field, Sophia.
On May 24, the body of 58-year-old Sharanie Doobay was found lying in a pool of blood near the kitchen of her two-storey Echilibar Villas, Campbellville residence on Tuesday afternoon.
The victim had been struck at least four times in the head with a blunt instrument. Police sources said that one of the wounds was to the back of the head, another at the side, and two at the top of the skull.
Less than 24 hours later, 38 year-old Susilla Latchman called ‘Devika’ of Lot 48 Garden of Eden was chopped to death by her husband, 45-year-old Satchitanand Latchman.
After chopping his wife, the man then ingested a poisonous substance and set fire to their home.
He died the following day.
Then at Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, 42-year-old Verone Patois was allegedly murdered by her lover, Suresh Persaud, a hire car driver in the town.
A door bar was reportedly used to bludgeon the woman’s head.
And yesterday, Seema Singh was hacked to death by a man at Mahaica, East Coast Demerara.
The women who died at the hands of robbers are 68-year-old Prampattie Ramsundar called ‘Auntie Daro’, who was slain in her home at Enmore, East Coast Demerara; 74-year-old Khirul Najidam, called Babloo Saddick, whose bound and gagged body was found in a store room located in the lower flat of her 1215 Gaulding Place home, and 68-year-old Sukhdai Ramkilaum, called ‘Mama Rose’ and ‘Rosaline,’ was found in a pool of blood in the bedroom of her Lot 80 Vryheid’s Lust North residence. Her throat had been slit and her home was ransacked.

Neibert Bacon

Among the six execution-style victims are 31-year-old contractor Carlos Persaud, called ‘Jason’, whose bullet-riddled body was found in the Le Repentir Cemetery; Brian Chung, said to be a small-time drug trafficker, who was gunned down outside his Da Silva Street, Newtown flat; former light-welterweight boxer, Linden ‘Buckman’ Mortley, was shot dead on a bridge connecting Festival City to Lamaha Springs;
Mark Kandhai, shot dead in his Industry, East Coast Demerara grocery store; and 31-year-old Curtis Texwayne Duncan of Silvertown Wismar, who was shot and burned alive in his car.