A Guyanese national based in Trinidad died Monday at the Port of Spain General Hospital as the country recorded yet another domestic violence death.
Patricia Duncan, 41, a security guard, who lived at Laventille Road, San Juan, and worked with Strike Force Security at Barana Seafood Processors Ltd, Production Avenue, Sea Lots, was reportedly killed by another security guard. She was dealt one chop to the neck by her 45-year-old assailant and died as a result of the injury.
An official at the Guyana Consulate who confirmed Duncan’s death said the woman had recently visited the consulate.
A Trinidad Express report said the dead woman’s husband, David McMillan, wept openly at the Forensic Science Centre in St James on Tuesday, as he recalled the last conversation he had with his wife.

Duncan’s husband, described his wife as “church-going, very quiet … a peaceful woman.”
He said her body will be flown back to Guyana for burial.
The man who allegedly chopped her to death is expected to appear in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
The suspect, still armed with the bloodied cutlass was running near the Port of Spain abattoir when he was arrested.
Officers at the CID, where the suspect was interviewed, said the suspect and another man had a fight at Duncan’s home on Sunday.
Police in Trinidad also retrieved the bodies of Guyanese twin Ryan and Ricky Lall, 21, and their friend Trinidadian national, Mahendra Deonarine, who all perished in the waters off the Mayaro Beach, Mayaro, on Sunday.

The bodies of Guyanese national Ryan Lall and his friend Mehendra Deonarine washed ashore earlier Monday, almost two miles from where they drowned on Sunday and shortly before nightfall the body of Lall’s identical twin brother, Ricky, was also found.
The three men were bathing in waters off Bon Espoire Road, Mayaro, when they disappeared around 6.05 p.m. They were among ten friends who went to spend the day at the beach.
According to an official at the Guyana Consulate in Trinidad, post mortem examinations were to be conducted yesterday on the bodies of the Guyanese at the Forensic laboratory in San Fernando.

Trinidadian national Vishnu Baldi, the twin’s step-father, spoke with the Consulate Official as their mother, Romana Baldi, was too distraught to speak.
Bali, the official said, related that his stepsons, who lived at St Croix Princes Town, migrated from their East Coast Demerara home in Guyana some seven years, and were
students at a private secondary school on the island.
They had written the CXC examination in January and were awaiting results, the stepfather said.
They also worked part-time at Persad ‘D’ Food King in Princes Town.
According to eyewitness reports, the twin and Deonarine were swimming when it was observed that one of the brothers had encountered difficulty in the water.
The two others went to render assistance and soon they also found themselves in difficulty. Subsequently, all three were sucked under the water and failed to surface.
Lifeguards who were summoned failed to locate the men.

The bodies of Guyanese national Ryan Lall and his friend Mehendra Deonarine washed ashore yesterday, almost two miles from where they drowned on Sunday. Shortly before nightfall the body of Lall’s identical twin brother, Ricky, was found.

The three men were bathing in waters off Bon Espoire Road, Mayaro, when they disappeared around 6.05 p.m. Kevin Baldi, the Lalls’ elder brother, said he tried to save the
victims.”I saw Mehendra floundering in the water, but I didn’t know he was drowning. And I didn’t know that Ryan had already drowned. I saw Ricky waving his hands and then I realised what was going on. The water was moving in a circle and I was unable to go in. I almost drown myself and I turned back. I started bawling to them that I can’t come in,” he recalled.

Baldi said his brothers, 17-years-old, did not plan on going into the water.
“They were in the bus and then decided to go and wash out their feet. Ricky and Ryan were holding hands and walking, but they did not realise they were being pulled into the water by the under currents. Then I did not see Ricky. We called for help, but there were no lifeguards and the police take an hour to come,” he said.
Deonarine’s body resurfaced near St Ann’s Road, Mayaro, around 7.30 a.m. Ryan Lall’s body was recovered an hour later at Church Street. At around 5.45 p.m., the body of Ricky Lall washed ashore near Beaumont Road.

“I came here when I heard and I am hoping to find my other son. We are searching since Sunday. I was in church when they left home to go to the beach. This is the first time they come to Mayaro,” the boys’ stepfather said.

The family lives at St Croix Road, Princes Town. The boys’ mother, Ramona Baldi, had sat on the shoreline and prayed for her son’s recovery yesterday, as the Coast Guard
continued the search out at sea.
Deonarine, 20, lived with his mother at Mahadeo Road, Princes Town. He was employed at Persad’s D Food King supermarket in Princes Town, police said.
“They write exams and wanted to go and lime with friends. I did not think something like this will happen; this is a hard thing for a parent. They were good boys, never in fight
or anything bad,” Baldi said.