Police probe alleged assault of Market Supervisor

Nov 25, 2018 News

The Port Mourant Overseer, Boodwattie Ramnarine, has once again found herself in the news after she reportedly physically assaulted the Market Supervisor for the Port Mourant Market.
The assault reportedly took place in her office at the Neighbourhood Democratic Council in the presence of other staff.

Embroiled: Boodwattie Ramnarine

The 24-year-old, Ryan Mallay who had his shirt buttons ripped off and vest torn, has since filed a report at the Whim Police Station.
He said that he was asked by the overseer to report to the NDC along with three other market labourers on Thursday.
“When we arrived, we waited for a bit. Then the overseer came out her office with her cellular phone and started to take out photographs of me and my staff. We asked her what was going on and why she was taking out our pictures but she didn’t respond. She just went back into her office.”
Mallay stated that a client visited the office to meet with her and after meeting with the overseer, she again exited her office and this time asked, “What are you doing here? If you don’t have anything to do, leave the office.”
He added that he and the staff reminded her that it was she who made the request to meet with them at the office. She responded, “If anyone wants to meet her, they have to do so in her personal office space.”
They did as was requested, Mallay said.
According to the Supervisor, “When we entered, we told her ‘Good morning’ and everything and we told her that we are here reporting for duties. Then she took out her phone again and began to video. Then one of the staff that was with me tell her that she have a daughter and what she don’t like for her daughter, she shouldn’t do to others.
Shortly after, she handed me my office keys, which I had given her on the 21st November. She had demanded them from me and then she grabbed it back. At that point, I told my staff ‘Let’s leave the office’ and the staff walked out.”

Ryan Mallay holding up his torn vest in the company of the other staff who were with him when the assault took place.

He stated that it was at that point while he was walking out that he felt someone scrambled him from behind and he stumbled on top one of the staff’s leg. Then the overseer grabbed him on his shirt here and pulled him off the staff’s leg, which caused his jersey to rip and two buttons came off and ripping his vest as well.
“Then she started to feel up my pockets that how I steal her cell phone but all the staff started to shout and ask her what is wrong with her and then she went in her office”.
Mallay said that when she entered her office, she called someone and was telling the individual on the other side of the line that he took away her cellular phone, but he added that he videoed her through the window showing that while she was complaining that her phone was taken, she had it in her hands.
Mallay subsequently left with his three other staff and immediately filed the report.
The Market Superintendent told the media that he will be going ahead with pressing charges against the overseer for her actions.
In August 2016, the said overseer had assaulted a reporter. She was hauled before the court. She had also attempted to assault the Prime Minister’s Representative, Gobin Harbhajan, on another occasion.
A staff at the NDC said that while on a picket line earlier in the year, the overseer slapped her. Although there have been many reports of assault levelled against Ramnarine, she remains unmoved since no-one has taken the grievances of the staff at the NDC seriously.
They had on many occasions called for her removal because of the way she behaves and carries out her duties. They are yet to be heard.

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