“Meh worship, I de trying to get a passage fuh go back to Berbice,” was the explanation given to Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton when she enquired from a man his reason for stealing four kitchen knives from Guyana Stores Limited.
Derrick Persaud who was subsequently given a six-month prison sentence accepted the simple larceny charge which stated that on August 12 at Guyana Stores Ltd, he stole four kitchen knives