Nine days after businesswoman Sirmattie Ramnaress was found bludgeoned to death in her Diamond house, the police seem clueless despite the wealth of leads available, raising ongoing questions about the investigative competence of the force amid sweeping reforms that were announced nine months ago by the Home Ministry.
No one has been charged and the police have not said if there is a suspect in the case though the woman’s reputed husband, a policeman, has been questioned.
Security sources say one circumstance of Ramnaress’s murder has exposed the ineffectiveness of the government’s much vaunted CCTV surveillance system and the failure of the police intelligence network. In the aftermath of the murder, presumably on the morning of July 31, Ramnaress’s vehicle was driven by the murderer/s from Diamond on the East Bank to Liliendaal on the East Coast and abandoned. The path taken could have avoided CCTV cameras – raising questions about the wisdom of their placement – but it is also possible that certain of the cameras could have picked the
