Businesswoman’s battered lifeless body found in home

Ramdia Balkaran, a 78-year-old businesswoman also known as ‘Sister Jean’, has been found dead in her bed in her home at Paramakatoi Village, Region Eight on Thursday.
Guyana Times understands that the woman’s body was discovered at around 06:00h, after a family member had gone to the woman’s home to do some cleaning, but had received no response after calling for her several times. The relative had then gone to another part of the premises and informed the woman’s husband, Rev. Basil Balkaran; and they both had gone back to the house and made their way inside.
Upon entering the house, they discovered the woman bound, gagged and battered, lying in her bedroom. The Police were summoned, and further checks around the yard revealed that the mesh fence at the back of the yard had been cut open.
So far, no one has been arrested, but Police are on the hunt for the suspect/s.
The woman and her husband had been working as missionaries for more than 50 years in the Wesleyan Church in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni). Following publication of the woman’s death, scores of persons flooded social media to express condolences to her family. One friend said: “A woman who won’t even hurt a fly was killed. She took time to serve wholeheartedly the Amerindian People in the interior for many years. This is tough news to receive…no amount of words can console anyone when death comes, and the way it did….
“I hope the perpetrators of this evil will be found, and the whole book of the law be thrown at them. This wanton killing is one time too many by very wicked and evil people. It seems they left something there at the Balkarran’s home and went for it. I can’t begin to imagine what this lady went through before drawing her last breath”.