Her father was involved in a misunderstanding with a relative, which was about to get violent. As the relative advanced with a cutlass, not thinking of the danger, Michelle ran between them and held the hand with the cutlass while she pleaded with the relative not to harm her father.
“I told him I don’t have a mother and my father is the only one I have and I can’t lose him,” Michelle (not her real name) told the Sunday Stabroek recently.