TWO men are hospitalised and another is in police custody following separate Berbice wounding incidents that occurred hours into the New Year.

In hospital are Chris Burrowes alias ‘Bully’, 35, of Alexander Street, New Amsterdam and Hansel Andrea Lewis nicknamed ‘Smiley’, 33, of Mai Mai Dam, Mount Sinai, West Canje.
Proprietor of Rainbow Bar, Mr. Anthony Cadore told the Guyana Chronicle that, shortly after 03:15 hrs on January 1, he left the premises to go a stone’s throw away and finalise a business deal.
On leaving, he saw Burrowes standing a few feet from the entrance to his business place, which is situated at the junction of Charles Place and Republic Road, New Amsterdam.
Cadore said he warned Burrowes not to enter, recalling that he had, on a previous occasion, banned the dental technician due to his spontaneous unruly behaviour.
Cadore said, having issued the warning, he proceeded on his way and spoke to a business partner.
However, a patron reported hearing Burrowes taunting Lewis who was standing just outside the fenced bar on the northern side of the building minutes before 06:00 hrs.
Lewis did not bother with Burrowes who persisted in following and chucking him but the latter, dressed in his long black coat that connoted hms being demon possessed, was seen putting his hand in the coat pocket and a fight ensued. Subsequently blood was observed flowing from Burrowes’ neck and he staggered to the front of his parents’ Charles Place home, a few metres from the scene, where he fell unconscious.
His father, Cyril Burrowes related that, moments after he penned his dogs, he was alerted to a commotion caused by a crowd.
The man said someone shouted: “Smiley just burst Bully throat” and his son mumbled: “Smiley do it.”
He said persons made emergency calls but were unsuccessful and the police arrived after they were informed and took his son to the hospital, where he was rushed to the operation theatre, prior to being admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.

VISITOR
Meanwhile, at Mai Mai Dam, Lewis, responding to knocks on his door at 07:00 hrs on New Year’s morning, was greeted by a visitor who had a bottle of brandy in his hand.
Presuming that the person was a friend of his son’s who had come for a New Year drink, Lewis allowed him in.
“But he hesitated a bit and after a few seconds I walked off. He went into my son’s bedroom and I heard a noise. Smiley was sleeping at the time and the visitor, using a series of expletives, lashed my son on his head. As a result the bottle broke and its flakes scattered all over the room. I attempted to intervene but had to retreat after I was threatened with a knife,” the pensioner, still shaken from the incident, related.
He said the known character pulled his son off the bed and inflicted stab wounds about his body, kicking him in the process.
The oversees-based Guyanese said: “I shouted for neighbours to call the police. The attacker pulled my son, who was not fully alert as he was under the influence of alcohol, into the hall and down the flight of stairs.
“They got to the bridge and the kicking continued but the police came at that point and partially witnessed the incident, before pulling them apart and taking them away,” the older Lewis recounted.
He went to Central Police Station, New Amsterdam, later, before going to the hospital where his son is under guard in the Male Surgical Ward.
The police are continuing their investigations into what transpired.