City worker chopped while trying to be peacemaker

Dexter Beckles

A City Council worker has been hospitalised since Thursday with a chop to his right hand after he was attacked while trying to act as a mediator during a row between a fellow worker and a member of the public.

Dexter Beckles, 29, of Lot 166 Middle Road, La Penitence, has been admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) since the attack.

He received fifteen stitches to the chop wound on his right hand. He said nerves in two of his fingers were damaged,