GuySuCo foreman on attempted murder charge

An East Canje man was remanded to prison on Friday after being charged with the attempted murder of his 11-year-old son, whom he allegedly set on fire.

While the boy, Ricky Samaroo, was admitted in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital on Friday, Ravendra Samaroo, 35, a field foreman at GuySuCo’s Rose Hall Estate, was refused bail after the charge was read to him at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court.

He was not required to plead to the indictable charge and Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus remanded him to