OPTHALMOLOGISTS attached to the New Amsterdam Hospital are working to have the sight of an eighteen-year-old lad retained, following a wounding incident at the Town Day ‘Wash Down’ at the Stelling Road in the New Amsterdam Township on Saturday.

Yuwyn Ramalho, of Angoy’s Avenue, is currently a patient at hospital where he was admitted during the early hours of Sunday morning.
According to his mother, Dolette Benn, who was at his bedside on Monday, when Guyana Chronicle visited, her son was ‘hanging out’, observing the revellers, when his assailant approached and requested a Guinness Stout.
The teenager replied, “Where I will get the money from”. The man left and returned with a sealed bottle of Guinness Stout. He then hit Ramalho with the bottle in his left eye.
The wound under Ramalho’s eye started bleeding and he was taken to the hospital where the wound was sutured and bandaged. Doctors will look at the eye later to determine the extent of the damage.
Meanwhile, in a twist of fate Ramalho’s  two year old cousin Jahmario Elgin, had to be rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital after a squib, which was set off by two adults, exploded, resulting in injuries to his forehead.
His mother, Unetta Elgin, recounted to the Guyana Chronicle that on Saturday evening, she visited the Sue Yang Grocery at Main and Trinity Street, with the intention of purchasing a snack for her son.
“Whilst I was seated, I saw two men of Indian ancestry. One had a squib, and the other had a box of matches. I saw the explosive being lit. I was about to move my son, as I did not want him to be scared on hearing the explosion. But before I could do so, the firecracker went off, splitting the peak of my son’s cap and injuring his forehead.”
Displaying the injuries to the Guyana Chronicle, the mother wondered if her son was not wearing his cap, what would have been the extent of the injury.
The suspects in the wounding appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Courts on Wednesday.