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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Crime Watch

Electrician causing static in S/Grande

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He's a pop­u­lar elec­tri­cian in Coalmine, San­gre Grande, who is sought af­ter by many from or­di­nary folk to busi­ness peo­ple, doc­tors and lawyers.But it seems that elec­tri­cian Vish­nu Singh is known for more than his elec­tri­cal work. Guests and callers to the Crime­watch show al­leged that they paid Singh to do elec­tri­cal work but it nev­er got done and they nev­er got back their mon­ey.

Sher­ry Khan, of Coalmine, San­gre Grande, al­leged she paid Singh $5,500 to in­stall a se­cu­ri­ty cam­era at the front of her home in Sep­tem­ber last year. She told Crime­watch host Ian Al­leyne that Singh came to her home, looked at her pan­el box and told her he need­ed to change the pan­el box. He al­so told her she would have to re-wire her home, since "the elec­tri­cal work was done bad­ly and could cause her home to burn down."

Singh would re­turn some days lat­er, when Khan said he broke a wall in her home to start the work. But Khan said that was the last she saw of him. She claims she kept call­ing him to fin­ish the work, but this proved fu­tile. He al­leged­ly told her he was "sick" and then she al­leged he start­ed threat­en­ing her and her fam­i­ly. Khan said be­cause of Singh she and her fam­i­ly had "one of the worst Christ­mases ever" last year.

Khan told Ian she and her fam­i­ly re­port­ed the threats made by Singh to the po­lice. She pro­duced doc­u­ments to show that the re­port was ac­tu­al­ly made. But she claimed Singh con­tin­ues to threat­en them.Michael Williams, of Shiv­an Dri­ve, San­gre Grande, al­so told Ian that he paid Singh $3,700 for elec­tri­cal work at his home, but it was nev­er done.Both Khan and Williams told Ian all they want is their mon­ey back.But Singh, who agreed to ap­pear on the Crime­watch show this week, told Ian that the al­le­ga­tions against him were un­true.

He was joined on set by Khan and Williams who pro­vid­ed Ian with re­ceipts which he signed for the monies he re­ceived from them. But Singh in­sist­ed he nev­er signed the re­ceipts and the sig­na­ture was not his. Ian then asked him to see both his dri­ving per­mit and ID card. The sig­na­tures on both of­fi­cial doc­u­ments bore a strik­ing sim­i­lar­i­ty to the sig­na­tures on the re­ceipts. But Singh held fast to his po­si­tion, telling Ian, "Let us go to court to prove that is my sig­na­ture."

Singh claimed that there is an­oth­er con­trac­tor with the same name who is re­spon­si­ble.But the stu­dio lines soon lit up with callers re­count­ing sim­i­lar sto­ries to that of Khan and Williams.Dr Ocono, of San­gre Grande, called in to the show telling Ian that he paid Singh to in­stall a se­cu­ri­ty cam­era in his of­fice last year. Ac­cord­ing to Ocono, Singh took the mon­ey and nev­er showed up to do the work.

An­oth­er "vic­tim", Kr­ish­na Ma­haraj, told Al­leyne Singh owed him $3,000 for light­ing fix­tures which he took. Singh has not paid the mon­ey to date. When asked about this, Singh ad­mit­ted that he took the fix­tures.An­oth­er caller, Gabriel Gar­cia, told Al­leyne he paid Singh $16,000 over two years ago. He said he had con­tract­ed Singh to rewire his home. The mon­ey was paid over time, since ac­cord­ing to him Singh kept say­ing he need­ed mon­ey to buy ma­te­r­i­al for the work. How­ev­er, noth­ing was ever done.

Singh ad­mit­ted that he knew the callers and that he had promised to do work for them. Asked why he did not do the work which he was con­tract­ed to do, he did not re­spond and sim­ply shrugged his shoul­ders. But he could give no un­der­tak­ing as to when the out­stand­ing monies owed to the clients would be paid.

Al­ready, some of those clients who paid Singh have filed of­fi­cial com­plaints with the po­lice. Our last check showed that Singh had gone to To­ba­go and none of his clients had been paid.Al­leyne de­scribed the sit­u­a­tion in­volv­ing Singh as "sad". He said Singh has "made it bad for hard work­ing elec­tri­cians." His warn­ing to the pub­lic was sim­ply be care­ful of the peo­ple you hire to do work, you work hard for your mon­ey, check who you are giv­ing it to."


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