FIVE people, among them a businessman, are expected to face murder charges in connection with the killing in Trinidad of Guyanese nationals Narad Sukhoo, 28, and Vinod Doobay, 22.

The suspects were taken into custody Tuesday night by Police who obtained warrants for their arrest, a source in Trinidad told the Guyana Chronicle last evening.

Investigators have described the businessman as “the main man” who ordered the “hit” on Sukhoo and Doobay.

The bodies of the two Guyanese, each bearing a single gunshot wound to the back of the head, were found submerged in a river at an abandoned landfill in Felicity, Chaguanas, on Sunday morning.

They were kidnapped at a construction site where they were employed, just metres from their home in St Augustine, in the full view of other workers.

Homicide Bureau officers probing the case said the five suspects had been under surveillance hours after the victims’ bodies were found. The incident might have stemmed from the businessman accusing Doobay and Sukhoo of stealing TT$800.

Meanwhile, Sukhoo, a Hindu and who had lived on the island for over three years, will be cremated today at the Caroni Cremation Site.

Relatives of Doobay were yesterday still in the process of making flight arrangements to have his remains brought back here for cremation.

Sukhoo had lived in St Augustine with his reputed wife, Roxanne. His parents, Baldeo and Nadira of Workshop Street, Canefield, Canje, along with his only sister Vashti, and an aunt are in Trinidad.

His father told an NCN reporter, Edward Layne, that after going to see his son’s remains at a parlour when he arrived in Trinidad, he realised that the body was badly decomposed.

As such a decision was taken to have his body cremated there and the ashes brought back to Guyana on Friday.

Doobay was the youngest of three children born to Mahendra Changoo, also called ‘Davo’, and Dhanrajee Subkarran of 44 Banie Street, Reliance, Canje. According to his mother, who spoke with the Chronicle last evening, she and the rest of the family, all of whom are in Canje, are unable to travel to Trinidad but are doing all in their power to bring his body back home and give him “a decent send off .”

According to her, they have already secured the services of a parlour and have everything in place here for the cremation, but are awaiting a flight to have the body brought back here. The woman is hoping that the cremation could be competed by tomorrow.

The woman told the NCN reporter that she spoke with officials of a funeral parlour in Trinidad yesterday and they have said it is likely her son’s remains will make it home.

This latest murder has send shock waves through Guyanese living in the twin-island republic. According to the NCN reporter who was in Trinidad, Guyanese there, like Trinidadians, have expressed fear, saying the country has been taken over by criminals and government seems unable to deal with the situation.

One Trinidadian woman reported that things are not regular in the country she once knew as a paradise. “Things bad here boy, if the police can’t control the criminals, well you in trouble…the killing of the two Guyanese was the icing on the cake and that will drive visitors away from this country, things nah regula a tall”

Layne also reported a Guyanese businessman as saying he is now contemplating selling his business and returning home.

“I now thinking about packing up and go back home, this country getting sick and if people will target Guyanese then it’s time to leave.

“ I came here to make a better living for me and family and it look like nowhere is safe now, people crying out in Guyana when they get one murder, look at this country, over 200 for this year and we just in five months …That ain’t right at all, so I might very well go back home in Guyana where I will feel more safe now, because my biggest fear was the Fineman issue ” the man said.

Trinidad, with the latest figures of an alarming 210 murders so far for this year, tops all Caribbean countries, with the situation gaining regional and international attention.

Politicians on the island have said there are about 23 gangs and most of the killings are as a result of gang warfare.