Killing of Better Hope construction worker remains a mystery three months on

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newspaper that her cousin was shot in the back and the bullet lodged, causing internal bleeding.

Majeed expressed concerns about the manner in which Nandlall was treated when he was rushed to the Woodlands Hospital while noting that there was a delay in Nandlall receiving medical attention.

He said if the doctors there had at least tried, relatives would have been satisfied.

“When they went down to Woodlands, when I call them. The brother (Nandlall’s brother) seh they now reach and they seh they at the hospital they gone call …back”, Majeed recalled.

As a result, he said he asked them to return a call after they checked Nandlall in. “Half an hour pass and they aint call back. So I try get on back onto them, when I get on back to them they seh that how they don’t have no doctor”, he added.

According to Majeed, several minutes after, he was informed him that they lodged $60,000 and the doctor had arrived. “Then they seh that the doctor came and they have to pay $560,000 cash before he operate, so I seh ‘buddy tell the man (doctor) money there, tell the man money deh, leh he do the operate, yuh can’t find that money at that hour in the night’”, Majeed said.

He explained that while all this was happening Daniel was lying on the stretcher and complaining that he couldn’t breathe but no one paid him any attention.

Majeed said all this time he was communicating with his relatives via telephone since he was overseas. “When I on me phone I seh like we aint got no more option hay”, he noted.

He said a cousin even signed a paper and lodged her national ID card to guarantee that the remaining money would be paid the following morning but still Daniel did not receive any medical attention.

At this point, Majeed said about one hour and a half had elapsed with no progress so he advised his relatives to call an ambulance and take Daniel over to the Georgetown Public Hospital. “That was after an hour and a half, struggling fuh breathe. By time he reach at public (GPH) then is when he passed away”, Majeed said.

Majeed said following the incident, he went into Woodlands Hospital to enquire about the emergency process and related to the hospital administration what transpired but was told that management was not aware of the situation.

As a result, Majeed said he was asked to draft a detailed document of everything that transpired and return to the hospital. “I wasn’t here so I went there because I was very angry but although I told them, they still wanted it written”, he said.