A 40-year-old man who sustained stab wounds to the left side of his chest and left arm was admitted to Ward B2 at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday morning.
According to a hospital press release, Desmond Griffith of 89 Garnett Street, Campbellville, Georgetown was taken to the Accident and Emergency Unit at approximately 9.05 am and treated for his stab wounds.
When this newspaper visited Griffith the man was in a stable condition. Griffith said that yesterday morning he was visiting the construction site of one of his relatives when a man started to make insulting remarks about him.
“I went downstairs and ask he if he got some beef with me…and a scuffle start up between us,” Desmond said. “I pick up a wood and give he two lash and he brother or brother-in-law come with a ice-pick and started firing stabs at me.”
Griffith said that he intends to report the matter to the police. As a result of the injuries caused to his bodies by the wounds he now has a tube protruding from his left side and is in pain.
