-accused on station bail
The 19-year-old waitress of Hong Chinese Restaurant at Canefield, Canje who was stabbed at around 9:30 pm on Monday, was discharged from the New Amsterdam hospital yesterday while her alleged attacker was released on $10,000 station bail.
Carina Anansa Holmes underwent surgery at the hospital on Wednesday. Her condition is said to have improved though she is still experiencing pain. Holmes also injured her right knee when she fell in the process of fleeing from her attacker. Eyewitnesses pursued the attacker and dealt him six chops with a cutlass. He was handed over to the police after being treated at the hospital for the wounds. Two persons had also been taken into custody for chopping him.
The suspects who were held in connection with the chopping incident were also released on $10,000 station bail. Charges in both cases are likely to be laid shortly.
Holmes told this newspaper yesterday that she started working at the restaurant three months ago after leaving her home at Charity, Essequibo Coast.
She said she decided to defend her colleague, Ramona Leandra Williams, 19, because the customer was taking advantage of her while lamenting, “But look wah happen to me now.”
According to her the man who was drinking there for a while had ordered $6,000 worth in beer. She said he kept pestering Williams that he wanted to “take her out and because she did not want to go” he refused to pay for the beer.
Williams insisted that she had to get the money and the man became physically abusive to her; boxing her and hitting her with a beer bottle.
Holmes also tried to get the man to pay, telling him that “we would have to pay it [money] from we pocket if you don’t pay.” She also chided him for beating the other teen and he started to “pull and tug at her” and she in turn hit him with a beer bottle.
He then became angry and whipped out a knife and dealt her the stab, causing her to bleed profusely.