Latest update May 25th, 2026 12:35 AM
Two brothers chop fisherman over $1000
An argument over $1000 has landed one man at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) nursing several chops about his body and another in police custody.
Injured: Naresh Balkissoon
Naresh Balkissoon, 34, of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara is hospitalized in the GPHC Male Surgical Ward.
One of his attackers has turned himself into police custody while ranks are searching for another. The two suspects are brothers.
According to information, around 19:40 hrs on Wednesday Balkissoon, a fisherman was at a shop at the Mon Repos market tarmac with two men drinking red wine when the brothers approached him.
Reports are that the father of two owed the men $1000.
Vanita Dowding, the injured man’s sister, said that she was selling at her stall when she heard a noise. She went to investigate and saw that her brother was under attack.
“One of them had a wood and another had a cutlass and their mother was right there looking at how they were chopping and beating my brother,” Dowding said.
According to Dowding, after the men started to attack her brother, he pelted the chair at them to block them from attacking him further but this did not save him. The men threw him on the ground and continued thrashing him.
“The two of them went on top of him beating him and my brother throw one of them in the gutter and run but they run behind him and continue beating him in the middle of the road,” the injured man’s sister recalled.
She added that she pleaded with the men to leave her brother alone but her request was in vain.
“One of them take the cutlass and put it on my neck and said, ‘keep the (expletive) away before I slit your throat’. I tell them that I will pay the $1000 but they said that my brother has to die. I begged their mother but she just look at what her sons were doing. She even hold my brother down and let them beat he,” Dowding related.
Investigations are ongoing.
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