The motive for the fatal stabbing of Friendship minibus driver Yamsham Ram remains unclear.
Tramaine Prescott, who shared a home with the now dead Ram, 43, told Stabroek News that they shared a brother-sister relationship. The only incident which might have led to a misunderstanding, she said, was the theft of a computer box from a new bus he recently started operating.
“I don’t know what exactly happened, he never tell me nothing about no problem with nobody. All he tell me was that somebody thief the computer box,” Prescott stated. “Is a new black pit-bull bus he start driving and I never even see the bus because is recently he start driving it and when I come out from the interior, he told me that when them get back the computer box, he gon get back de bus fu drive,” the woman added.
The owner of the bus, who had employed Ram as a driver, allegedly stabbed him.
According to a police statement, at about 1:15am on Wednesday, Ram, 43, sustained stab wounds about his body during an argument with another man at Timehri, East Bank Demerara. Ram was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he succumbed.
Police had said the suspect is in custody.
Prescott said Ram was a quiet person and spent most of his time by himself. “He is not a rowdy person or nothing. He never used to make trouble with no one and is only Sunday I take he picture and he na even know,” the woman recalled.
Ram has no relatives in Guyana and according Prescott he has been living in Guyana for about seven years. His relatives plan to travel from Canada for his funeral but have so far been unable to secure an early flight.
