An argument over politics during a drinking spree has led to the chopping and subsequent death of a 31-year-old labourer of Strand, New Amsterdam, Berbice around 5.45 pm on Saturday.
Reports are that Vishwanauth Subramani was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where an emergency surgery was performed. He was later admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital.
He was transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital on Tuesday afternoon and around 4.15 am yesterday, his aunt, Monica Balkarran received a call that he had died.
Subramani who also resided at John’s, Port Mourant on the Corentyne was imbibing alcohol at a rum shop at Stand with a group of men when he was chopped across his abdomen.
Balkarran said a nurse from the New Amsterdam Hospital called her around 6.30 pm on Sunday and told her about the chopping. She was not able to go until the following morning and when she got there she had to call another nephew to clean the blood off him.
She questioned him about what led to the chopping and he told her that he and the men were arguing about politics when one of them started “talking bad things about the regional chairman [Zulfikar Mustapha].”
He told her that he got angry and started to “curse the man about his mother.” The man retaliated by retrieving a cutlass from his motorcycle that was parked in front of the shop and dealing him the chop.
According to Balkarran, her nephew was at the time staying with the owners of the rum shop. The owners’ son called a taxi and rushed him to the hospital.
