A cane harvester of Belvedere Squatting Area on the Corentyne Coast in East Berbice has been brutally chopped by three cutlass-wielding men who invaded his home on Monday.

Twenty-year-old Yuvraj Ramphal, called “Head”, has been hospitalised following the incident. According to the man’s wife, Bibi Khan, called “Shabana”, she was awoken by a noise around 03:00hrs, and went to see where the sound was coming from, thus she encountered three men in their one bedroom house.

She said she immediately called out to her husband, but by then the men were already in their bedroom and had dealt him several chops.

“Me hear ah door chain knock and went fe see wha happen, and me see three man in the house with cutlass, me call out to me husband, ‘babe, somebody in the house’ but them man reach the netting as he been a come out and start firing bare chop on he.”

She related that her husband pleaded with the men to stop chopping him, and even enquired who they were looking for.

“He ask them, ‘oow, ah yuh stop nah; a who you come fah?”  but the men did not relent, and her husband ran out of the net and through the back door with the men in chase “firing chops”.

Khan said as the men exited, she ran to check on her two children, who were awoken by the incident.
Thankfully, they were not hurt, and she went outside to see where her husband was.

“Me go outside and see blood on the ground, and follow am to couple house away, whe me see nuff nuff blood on the ground and them people them carry he to hospital already,” she related.

Khan said she immediately called the Albion Police Station, but did not get any response. Several other attempts proved futile.

She then called the Whim Police Station, but was told that the matter is for Albion, since it happened in that jurisdiction.

Frustrated, the woman called the Central Police Station in New Amsterdam, but a rank who answered the phone asked what the issue was, and when she told him, he said he would make contact with his colleagues at the Albion Police Station.

Khan tried calling the Albion Police Station again, but in all her attempts the phone rang out, and she decided to again call the Whim Police Station.

The policeman at Whim who answered the phone promised to send the patrol.

When the police eventually came, Khan related, they looked at the bloody bed and her neighbour’s yard, and asked her to relate what had happened.

The woman said she did, and the law enforcement officials promised to return later in the morning to conduct their investigations, but they never returned.

Khan told this publication that she is frustrated by lack of cooperation from the police. She related that although she does not know the men, she can positively identify them.

Meanwhile, Ramphal, who lost a finger in the chopping, is recovering at the New Amsterdam Hospital. He sustained chops to the left hand and shoulder, and has a gaping wound to the head.

Guyana Chronicle understands that this is the third time an incident of this nature has occurred to Ramphal. He is described as a quiet person by his mother. His mother wants answers as to who and why someone would want to hurt her son.

The police are continuing their investigations into the matter.