FORTY-six year old Latchmin Mohabir, poultry farmer who last Wednesday survived  a violent cutlass attack by her husband, who soon after ingested a lethal potion of a weedicide, was on Tuesday discharged from hospital.

She was, however, unable to witness her husband’s cremation the following day.

Now Latchmin is at her wits end as to how to keep her chicken business at Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara together.
With her badly chopped hands in splints, there is little that she could do.
The couples’ two daughters, eleven and seven,  who  looked on helplessly as Latchmin was attacked by her husband, will be  around  to help with the lighter responsibilities of the home for the next few days.
After that, they must return to school, and will no longer be able to offer the kind of help to a mother who is unable to use her hands.
Meanwhile,  haunted by the memory of the ghastly incident, the girls remain in the home, badly traumatized and in need of counselling – the initiation of which is nowhere in the making.
As Mohabir’s wife, daughters, other immediate relatives mourn their loss and prepare to brace themselves for the attendant devastation, his brother-in-law, Seeraj who arrived on the scene just in time to save his sister’s life, reports that one week later, the couple’s once thriving poultry farm is already on the down-swing.  To date, huge losses have been incurred, with the result that the family is now forced to embark on a rapid wholesaling of the birds to prevent  further  losses.
Tragedy struck around 9:30 hrs last Wednesday,  when  Mohabir who, together with his wife Laltchmin, 46, operated the ‘Green Ice Poultry Farm’ for several  years, ‘tripped’ and violently chopped her several times about the body with a sharpened cutlass.
Fearing that his wife was dead, he ingested a weedicide.  He was rushed to the hospital by police, but died some hours later.