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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Cops call for witnesses of river beating to come forward

by

Rhondor Dowlat
473 days ago
20240412

Po­lice of­fi­cers are call­ing on any­one who may have in­for­ma­tion on the beat­ing of a man at the Cau­ra Riv­er on April 1 to come for­ward, af­ter the vic­tim died nine days af­ter the at­tack.

Fa­ther of two Govin­da Rame­sar, 34, of Brick­field Road in Cara­pichaima, died on Tues­day.

He had two chil­dren ages 11 and two.

Dur­ing a vis­it to the fam­i­ly’s home yes­ter­day, some rel­a­tives were not at home as they were mak­ing fu­ner­al arrange­ments.

His fa­ther, who was there, was too dis­traught to speak and said he was not feel­ing well.

How­ev­er, Rame­sar’s aunt, who asked not to be named, said his death was very sad and shock­ing to his fam­i­ly.

Whilst they would like jus­tice, she said, she strong­ly be­lieves that no one will step for­ward to give any in­for­ma­tion to the po­lice, in­clud­ing the iden­ti­ty of the at­tack­ers.

“On Tues­day he want­ed to see his moth­er ... as he saw her he went back in­to the room and col­lapsed and died,” Rame­sar’s aunt said.

The aunt said the 34-year-old sought med­ical at­ten­tion from the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex and a pri­vate doc­tor.

“He got beat up re­al. In his face and head and all over his body. He was ex­pe­ri­enc­ing lots of pain,” she said.

Po­lice said Rame­sar, along with oth­er rel­a­tives, were lim­ing at the Cau­ra Riv­er on East­er Mon­day when he ap­proached a group of peo­ple ask­ing them to move their ve­hi­cles so he and his fam­i­ly could leave. An ar­gu­ment erupt­ed, which turned phys­i­cal when a group of about 15 peo­ple be­gan beat­ing and kick­ing Rame­sar in the head and about the body. The group on­ly stopped when he fell in­to a drain.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the brawl can call the po­lice at 555, 999, the near­est po­lice sta­tion or Crime Stop­pers at 800-TIPS (8477).

Homi­cide de­tec­tives at Re­gion II are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.


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