“They throw away meh music set and start beating me in meh head with glass bottles cause I din wan turn off de song,” said Farouk Hamid from his bed in the Male Open Ward at the George-town Public Hospital yesterday afternoon.
Hamid, 26, of Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara was crying out in pain as his bed was being adjusted by a nurse yesterday. He related to Stabroek News that he was at a saloon at Bee Hive, East Coast Demerara drinking with two men when “one ah dem sey that he nah like de song playing on me music set and he tell me fuh turn it off”.
Farouk Hamid
Hamid said that when he refused to turn off his CD player, the man scrambled it out of his hands, ran to the door and threw it on the road. He stated that the other man then got up and grabbed him and when the one who had thrown the CD player into the street rejoined them, the two men picked up a glass bottle each and dealt him several blows to his head and body.
Hamid noted that when he fell to the ground, the men continued their assault and one of the men later “bruk a glass bottle and start fuh cut me all over me hands with it”. He said that he soon fell unconscious in the saloon and “this morning I wake up in de hospital”.
Hamid stated that he knew his attackers well – had known them for over a year and he reported the incident to a policeman who had visited him at the hospital but did not know if either of his attackers had been apprehended.
well it’s rum till I die alright!! when will these fools learn to control themselves?
It is the same trash that the chutney singers promote that most of the young men feels it is nice to do ( drink rum) it is contributing a lot the down fall of youths.Bann them from you country with all the vulgar promotions.
Well my boy, that sounds like u Mumma and uh Papa, them well trash you.
However, I am confindent that GPF will deal with them properly, meanwhile
I wish you a speedy recovery.
To the nurses at the GT Hospital, please ensure that he has a speedy recovery so he can return to battle ground again for another battle. The reason I say this is because he will be drinking again with some more drunken friends awaiting another drunken outcome. These people don’t learn. Everyday you read the newspaper, it is one drunken fight after another with the same consequences. Hopefully he reads SN more often because the next time he might not live to see another day
here goes another spate of violence, how can you be annoyed with some one for playing music of his or her choice. this brazen assault needs an end now. and i dont want to see the courts placing these two individuals on bail. keep them in there as long as it takes. it will helptheem to reform. while the spirits in the bottle which is responsible for lots of violence will dissolve from their heads. they also throw away the mans music set . advantage———————-advantage, I think its time the Minister of Heath stop focusing on Aids for a while and take a careful view at these liquor shops and those that make the rum. and also a lwa should be in place as to how much alcohol a person should consume. mr Minister if you dont do this you will have more violence and bloodshes which will leads to death. even teens are allowed to purchase spirits and consume it too. come on shop owners you have your duty to do just dont sit there and sell the stuff for the sake of making money. you cam be in a money making mood otherwise.
I agree with you Yvette, the health ministry aids prevention programme has gain some success so far…the minister needs to now run a similar programme against alcohol consumption and age groups..Let both programmes run at the same time and let us see the outcome..
Yvette, your views are on point, however we have to remember that you have to conduct yourself in a responsible manner, (meaning), you cannot violate the other persons rights NOT TO LISTEN TO YOUR MUSIC, your music should be played for YOUR enjoyment, especially in a public place, and not infringe on the other person’s rights NOT to hear it,,, I am in no way condoning the assault, I’m saying that there IS a noise ordanance in place to prevent the playing of PUBLIC LOUD MUSIC, which the victim did not heed, never the less he refused to turn the music off when he was requested to,,,,This is known as disrespect…
wonderful.wonderful,well spoken and i am with you 100%
No sympathy here ! He should not have been drinking alcohol in the first place. I guess he learn that alcohol is prohibited in Islam. I hope he learnt his lesson.
Alcohol is not the problem here,,,,ISLAM teaches respect, if they asked you to turn it off,,,TURN IT OFF.
i hope so 2.
im 100% with u . sis.
I guess alcohol eat out half of their brains…they should be jailed for at least 5 year to see if they can be rehabilitated..
Like I said before…..Guyana is a sick and backward place.
Amen.
Who is this? Who give you the right to critize Guyana. Who are you? In Canada you guys are second class citizens. In Guyana the people there are free. I do not like the idea of him drinking, getting drunk and then playing music to the loudest. He should have some freedom. He can drink but in moderation. He can play his music and not loud, but he was playing music (as he said) to his own liking. That does not mean that he must be punished for that. Guyana is a free country. You are so wrong to critize my country. Get your acts togother and examine where you live. I live overseas and Canada is no different from Guyana. They drink and walk, drive, ride the subways and do all the stuff they used to do in Guyana before they came to Canada. It is not the Canadians, it is the foreigners. The Canadians do not kill each other as much as you Guyanese and foreigners go over there and do. It is a Haven. Love Guyana. To say that Guyana is sick and backward, examine your head blah, blah mouth.
In reply to KONSORNED…..you are making senseless remarks while a life is hanging in a balance…shame on you, especially if you are a guyanese. The way I see it is that you are more backward than your silly comment…………
Concerned –then you are also sick and backward since you came from that place you are condemning . Dont burn your bridges (in case you get deported ).
AND WHERE DID YOU COME FROM????
guyana is not a backward place it is beautiful more than canada is the people who is back ward we are all fools to leave gt and then cursing it after , because we are all foreign minded, leaving gt and then chatting bad about your own country we all better wake up and smell the blasted coffee including youoooooooooooooooo. because one day we will have to return there to my beautiful sexy land thank you.
concerned ,how can you say dat about guyana . a weh you nable string bury.
The people are the ones who are sick and are behaving like beasts. Guyana is just a countryand therefore the country cannot be sick. I have to defend my country even though things has become chaotic and lawless. Guyana has and continue to produce great people. It is just that all of the talent is moving out of Guyana, getting educated and folks refused to return back to their roots.
Well this is what happens when you drink with fools. We see this everyday in the papers and I know most of these incidents are not published. I don’t even know what to say about such nonsensical behaviour, grown men acting like spoilt infants. I am sure when these men become sober they are going to blaim the “bottle’ for the brannigan and will beg the victim for forgiveness and forget about the story.
Send their ‘behind’ to jail, I am simply tired of these unavoidable carnage these bingers leave for others to clean up.
More rum for them, more rum for them. Farouk u look in a bad shape get well and stop hanging around the devil’s soup.It makes u feel iry but when u wake up in lala land, u can b smelling daisy by d root.
Everytime something like this happens we look for a new law to prevent it and curb our insecurities…so I say, to all you purists out there why not ban alcohol period? Ban the production of it and life will go on blissfully. But we all have skeletons in the closet if we look back into our lives, ’cause if we didn’t we don’t belong here. If we have insecurities about our decisions and our abilities to function in society, why not give up every single known freedom or rights we have to prove that we can manage the ills of our environment? Everyone has their interests to protect. And as long as our interests is not threatened everything else is overlooked, even bad decisions, until we have renewed interests and find out that those protections are history.