Latest update February 10th, 2025 2:25 PM
One hospitalised, another in custody after $500,000 brawl
A quarrel over $G500, 000 has left one miner nursing wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) while a dredge operator is in police custody after being treated and discharged with stab wounds about the body.
Royston Abrahams sustained at least five stab wounds about the head, arms and chest area while working in the Enachu Backdam. The Coldingen East Coast Demerara resident said that he was stabbed by two men whose intentions were to end his life after he intervened in a misunderstanding they had with his cousin over some money.
Abrahams being escorted to the Brickdam Police Station
Abrahams claimed that on the previous day an agreement started with the men to have the $500,000 returned to them. He said the money had been owed after certain business transactions were conducted with his relatives who own mining equipment in the interior.
Abrahams said that he and his cousin were supposed to go out the next morning to sell some gold so that the men could have their money.
But Abrahams claimed that around 05:30 hours yesterday morning he was awakened by the sound of men arguing. On checking, he realized that it was his cousin and the men who were arguing.
The men, Abrahams said, were advancing his cousin and it was clear that they were about to take advantage of him.
Dressed in nothing but a boxer shorts and a vest Abrahams said he went to intervene, since the men had sharpened implements.
Abrahams said his cousin ran away but he was not so lucky because he tripped and fell to the ground. “We gone kill this one,” Abrahams said was the last words he heard from the men who both began to stab him.
After fighting them off, the dredge operator said he managed to escape back to his camp. He then said that he went to the Enachu Police Station to make a report but was surprised after one of his attackers had already been to the police station claiming that Abrahams had chopped him.
He said he was arrested and brought to the city to seek medical attention.
However, one of his alleged attackers had to undergo surgery for what eyewitnesses described as a large gash on his left upper arm. At the time this publication visited the hospital the man was about to undergo the surgery. It was indicated that he would be admitted to the hospital for his wounds.
A policeman guarding the men said it is likely that both men would be charged for the incident. Abrahams is however likely to face the court today.
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