Berbice man hospitalised from chopping incident

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.”