ESSEQUIBO Magistrate Sunil Scarce has remanded a 26- year -old cash-crop farmer of Maria’s Pleasure, Wakenaam, Essequibo to prison for attempted murder.The farmer, Vijai Sancharra, who made his first apperance before Magistrate Scarce in the Anna Regina court on Tuesday, was not required to plead.

According to police Prosecutor Rambhague, on March 7 at Maria’s Pleasure, Wakenaam, Essequibo Islands, Sancharra wounded Livamnauth Dhairam. It is alleged that he took a cutlass and dealt several chops to Dhairam’s feet and hand .The injured farmer is hospitalised in the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Sancharra is expected to make another appearance at the Wakenaam court on March 25. (Rajendra Prabhulall)