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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Intruders kill South businessman

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2154 days ago
20190927

Sev­er­al years ago Sat­nar­ine Ram­per­sad got a li­censed firearm for pro­tec­tion af­ter his busi­ness­place was robbed many times.

As fate would have it, Ram­per­sad, 57, fond­ly called Ted­dy, did not even get a chance to use the firearm to de­fend him­self when five in­trud­ers broke in­to his home at Union Hall, San Fer­nan­do, around 4 am.

Po­lice be­lieve he was shot in the jaw while he slept on his bed. While he was bleed­ing to death, the in­trud­ers went to the down­stairs apart­ment where they tied up and robbed his ten­ants, two fe­male Chi­nese na­tion­als, po­lice said. They were robbed of TT $10,000, US$2,000 and their cell­phones. 

Noth­ing was tak­en from Ram­per­sad, leav­ing his rel­a­tives and friends baf­fled as to why he was mur­dered.

Po­lice found his firearm safe­ly se­cured at his home. Ram­per­sad, a ware­house su­per­vi­sor and dri­ver, lived alone up­stairs his Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion home at Ti­ta­ni­um Cres­cent.

He had no wife or chil­dren. Po­lice said the Chi­nese sis­ters, ages 43 and 46, were op­er­at­ing a small mas­sage busi­ness at the apart­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, they were awak­en by the in­trud­ers who wore dark cloth­ing and masks. One of the sis­ters man­aged to free her­self and then her sis­ter. They went up­stairs where they found Ram­per­sad’s body on his blood-stained bed.

De­scribed as a de­cent, hon­est, friend­ly, jovial and hard-work­ing per­son, Sat­nar­ine’s broth­er Capildeo Ram­per­sad, 61, said his broth­er “was good with every­body.”

He re­called that sev­er­al years ago his broth­er op­er­at­ed a su­per­mar­ket in Debe which was robbed three or four times. Ram­per­sad, he said, got a li­censed firearm for pro­tec­tion but to his knowl­edge he nev­er had cause to use it.

“He nev­er threat­en no­body with the gun as far as I know. Hard­ly any­body even knew he had a firearm,” he said.

Speak­ing at Ram­per­sad’s home where sev­er­al friends and rel­a­tives had gath­ered, he said every­one was in a state of shock.

A de­vout Hin­du, Ram­per­sad at­tend­ed wor­ship at a tem­ple in Debe three times a week and was al­so a yo­ga teacher.

Capildeo said, “This is strange. The tem­ple mon­ey was still there (up­stairs Ram­per­sad’s home). They took noth­ing from him. The house was not ran­sacked.”

Ram­nath was con­fi­dent, how­ev­er, that the po­lice would cap­ture the per­pe­tra­tors who took his broth­er’s life.

The fam­i­ly had not yet bro­ken the news to Ram­per­sad’s 80-year-old moth­er who al­ready lost her hus­band and two oth­er sons.

Ram­per­sad’s em­ploy­er de­scribed him as a hard-work­ing and hon­est per­son who did not de­serve to die in that way. He said Ram­per­sad worked late on Wednes­day night.

Ram­per­sad was al­so the dri­ver of Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan when the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship was in gov­ern­ment.

Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal said Ram­per­sad was a loy­al UNC sup­port­er, a kind and lov­ing per­son to all and a true friend.

Not­ing that Ram­per­sad al­so con­tributed to sev­er­al re­li­gious caus­es, he said, “Vi­o­lent crime is more than present in our once peace­ful com­mu­ni­ty. I on­ly hope that the po­lice will find the heinous el­e­ments that did this das­tard­ly act.”

There were no ar­rests up to late yes­ter­day.


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