A woman was murdered every month in 2017
A 73-year-old woman is set alight by her own son. A teenage girl is battered to death with a rock in a cemetery.
A farmer’s wife is strangled and buried near a row of freshly-planted crops. A drug-addicted intruder buried an 18-month-old girl alive after ripping out her earrings and throwing her through a window. They were among several females that were slain by boyfriends, husbands, relatives and acquaintances, during practically every month of last year. Some of the killers were captured, a few chose to take their own lives, and, in one case, the killer(s) are still unknown. In late March, police dug up the decomposed body of 39-yearold Lilwantie Balack, from the backyard of the Lot 117 Mibicuri North, Black Bush Polder home where she had lived with her husband. Police believe that Balack was strangled on September 6, 2016. Her husband, Sunil Datt Balack, had allegedly given the couple’s three children conflicting reports about her whereabouts, including claiming she had run off with a man to the United States. The woman’s horrible fate only came to light on Wednesday after her daughters, who had become increasingly suspicious, contacted the police. Police eventually charged her husband, allegedly after obtaining a confession. The gruesome killings continued in June, with a jealous reputed husband chopping and battering his spouse to death at their Sheet Anchor, East Canje, Berbice home. Mintie Karamchand, 40, sustained slashed wrists and ankles and was clobbered with a piece of wood on her head until she inhaled her last breath. Her reputed husband, Goldburn Oswald December, fled the scene, but on July 18, police found his decomposed body hanging from a tree near the Canje River. December and Karamchand had lived together for 24 years and separated some eight years ago. December, who was unemployed, migrated to neighboring Suriname leaving the woman to provide and take care of their five children. He was reportedly deported back to Guyana just over a month prior to the killing, and was staying at the Sheet Anchor residence with Karamchand. (Kaieteurnews.com)