Michelle Loubon

Se­cu­ri­ty guard Va­le­ri­na Judy Wat­son says she is hop­ing the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ties will as­sist her in get­ting her in­jured daugh­ter Tamar Wat­son to the Unit­ed States for me­di­al as­sis­tance.

Tamar Wat­son, 21, a na­tion­al foot­baller, sus­tained two bro­ken legs and a bro­ken col­lar bone dur­ing Sun­day's ac­ci­dent which claimed the life of box­ing icon Jizelle Sa­landy, 21. Tamar un­der­went surgery in the In­ten­sive Care Unit (ICU) of the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal. She is re­cu­per­at­ing in Ward 14 of the in­sti­tu­tion.

The el­der Wat­son, in an in­ter­view said, "I am hop­ing they would help me to take Tamar to Amer­i­ca for treat­ment. "They are far more ad­vanced...They would have bet­ter tech­nol­o­gy to take care of her," she added. At the same time, she thanked the med­ical staff at the in­sti­tu­tion for tak­ing care of her child. Wat­son said her daugh­ter was nev­er told of Sa­landy's trag­ic pass­ing.

She said Tamar "fig­ured it out on her own." In a pre­vi­ous in­ter­view, Wat­son had said her daugh­ter's first words to her were "Mum­my, where is Jizelle?" Wat­son said,"I told her to get well, fo­cus on get­ting well and com­mand your body to heal. "No­body ever told Tamar...She sort of fig­ured it out on her own," she said.

"She is bright...Tamar is an A-plus stu­dent."