TWENTY-SEVEN-year-old hire car driver Premchand Kallicharran is currently an in-patient of the New Amsterdam Hospital nursing a laceration across his face that required 21 sutures to close. He alleges that this wound was inflicted by his younger brother during a confrontation in the vicinity of their home at Lot 81, Grant 1780, Crabwood Creek, Upper Corentyne, East Berbice.

Premchand said his mother had asked him to intervene in an altercation his brother, Ishwar, was having with another male, and in so doing, he sustained the injury.

“I tried to part them; and after doing so, my brother seemed annoyed, and went into the house and returned shortly with a cutlass, which he used to chop me across my face.”

Premchand lamented that a mere month ago he had lost his wife and unborn five-month-old child.

“It seems like tragedy following me. Last month, on Mother’s Day, my wife died with the baby. Now this month I get chop across my face…. I wonder what next…,” he said.

However, while Premchand does not wish to have the matter reported to the police, he plans to “take things in my own hands…. I have a permanent scar for life.”

The wound across the left side of his face makes it nigh impossible for him to eat or drink anything; and he had also sustained wounds on his right thumb and hand during efforts to defend himself.

A report in respect to the Thursday, June 12, incident had been filed at the Springlands Police Station, but the 18-year-old Ishwar Kallicharran had not been arrested up to press time. Nevertheless, police are continuing their investigations into the matter.
Written By Jeune Bailey Van-Keric