‘Jumbie’ lash update… Mahdia man still warded, but much better
The injured Roderick Stevens
The injured Roderick Stevens

RODERICK Stevens of Mahdia, Region 8, remains warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being operated on for hemorrhaging and internal injuries to the left ear and eye after being dealt a severe ‘jumbie’ lash (an ambush) to the back of his head with a bottle on February 12.Fifty-one-year-old Stevens was struck from behind on a dark night, soon after leaving the popular ‘Cevon’s Shop’ in the area. However, he recalls that on the evening of February 12, he and his wife, Madrina Thomas, had gone to meet with his uncle at the shop.

While there, he recalled seeing a ‘douglah’ (mixed race) young man whom he had never seen in the area before, looking at him. According to Stevens, the man was ‘high’, (intoxicated). But he said he paid the man no mind, since he was just there to collect some money from his uncle on whose mining claim he had worked earlier.

Around midnight, he said, he and his wife left the shop and set out for home. But on the roadway he encountered a cousin who said she would accompany them, but had to go back to the shop to collect her torchlight. It was while he and his wife were waiting out in the dark for her, that someone crept up and lashed him on the left side of his head.
He was rushed to the Mahdia Hospital and a few days later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was admitted, bleeding profusely from the inner ear. He was operated on and his condition has improved considerably.

 

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