Resh­ma Ra­goonath

"I want jus­tice if it could hap­pen," said Za­hee­da Mo­hammed, wife of mur­dered fish­er­man Satyam "Sug­ars" Nanan. Nanan from Cedar Hill Trace, Clax­ton Bay, was look­ing for­ward to the birth of his fourth child lat­er this week. How­ev­er, Nanan was shot and killed around 7.15 pm on Sat­ur­day by a gun­man rid­ing a mo­tor­cy­cle. Nanan's mur­der is the third to be com­mit­ted while the coun­try is un­der a state of emer­gency. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports Nanan was stand­ing at the Clax­ton Bay junc­tion near Su­per­foods Su­per­mar­ket when the gun­man rode up to him and opened fire. Nanan ran a short dis­tance and col­lapsed. He died on the spot.

Al­though Nanan was killed in a pub­lic place his 23-year-old wife is not con­fi­dent that the fam­i­ly will get jus­tice since no wit­ness­es have come for­ward to re­port the mat­ter. "It was Sat­ur­day night. It had peo­ple. It have two bars on the junc­tion and no­body ain't see any­thing. Clax­ton Bay Junc­tion is a busy junc­tion and no­body see? "Maybe peo­ple scared to talk. But no­body will come for­ward and that is just what go­ing on in this coun­try. Peo­ple just dy­ing. When you die, you die and it is up to the fam­i­lies to pick up the pieces from there," Mo­hammed sobbed as her four-year-old son Nathan hugged her.

Mo­hammed is due to de­liv­er her sec­ond child on Thurs­day. She said Nanan was ex­cit­ed about the ba­by's birth and they were build­ing their home in time to wel­come the new ba­by. "He loved his chil­dren. He was ex­cit­ed for the ba­by. We picked the name Sarah Hope. We bought ma­te­ri­als. He was prepar­ing for the ba­by. We want­ed to build the house be­fore the ba­by come," she sobbed. Nanan's old­er broth­er, Mi­tra, 44, said the de­ceased was "the nicest per­son you could ever know." His 62-year-old moth­er, Prakash­watie, said on Sat­ur­day she start­ed to get a "bad feel­ing" that some­thing was go­ing to hap­pen.

She said the fam­i­ly went to Los Iros beach and she did not want to go. "I want­ed to stay home. You know they have a say­ing when your left eye beat­ing some­thing go hap­pen. Well I didn't want to go to the beach but my grand­chil­dren was in­sist­ing. "When I went I had a headache, pain in my neck and my eye was beat­ing me. Some­thing was telling me come home," she said. Cpl Rad­hay Kissoon is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mur­der.