Mine workers remain in custody over Brazilian woman’s stabbing death

Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said yesterday that all of the workers of the mining camp where Brazilian Maria Jose Assis Bazerra was found stabbed to death are still in police custody as investigators try to determine what occurred.  Police had said in a release that 11 men had been held in connection with the murder investigation. Based on what Persaud told this newspaper yesterday they all remain in police custody. He said the woman’s husband is among the detainees.

According to Persaud, based on the information, it was the general manager of the camp who had gone to lunch and subsequently stumbled upon the woman’s body in the camp. This newspaper had been told that she was found in bushes near the camp but the