An Upper Corentyne woman is pleading with the Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, to intervene and assist her in recovering her animals from the pound, since she believes that they were wrongfully captured.
According to Vonetta Newland, 40, cattle farmer, of Number 58 Village, Corentyne, the animals were ambling through the street returning home last Friday when the stray catchers noticed them and rushed through the street to capture them. She said, that they started to “wild up the animals” which led to them going into an empty lot. “So my husband start to chase it out from the empty lot and them [stray catchers] tell he let he don’t chase it out.”
She alleged that before pounding the animals, the stray catchers requested a sum of money from her husband. She said after her husband refused to pay the amount requested, the stray catchers then chased the animals from the street to the main road and then to the pound.
