The police in Region Five are still on the hunt for the person who attacked a Hopetown, West Coast Berbice cattle farmer resulting in him being hospitalized.
Trevor Jameer, 51, a cattle farmer of Hopetown Village, West Coast Berbice was attacked just around 7 am on Friday. He was rushed to the Fort Wellington Public Hospital after which he was transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
Commander of Region Five, Kurleigh Simon, yesterday said, that no arrest has yet been made in the matter.
A businessman’s car involved in an accident in Hopetown, West Coast Berbice earlier this month which injured two persons, was torched by villagers and then pushed into a ditch.
According to the injured man’s daughter, it was Jameer who assisted the police in removing the car from the ditch. This, she said, annoyed villagers present who began calling her father a ‘traitor.’
She had said “From since then they have a problem with him (father)… They say that he is betraying.”
She relayed, that her father was at a shop in the village when the attacker began verbally abusing him. She said, the attacker then left and returned with a bottle filled with gasoline and a stick which was lit. “He throw the gasoline on him and he push the stick that get the fire to the man and he (father) catch a fire.”
Jameer’s relatives yesterday relayed, that his condition is stable, adding that he sustained serious burn injuries to his neck, arms and legs.
