WCB farmer accused of being “Police informant” set on fire

A West Berbice, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) man was on Friday morning set on fire by a fellow villager, who referred to him as a traitor and a Police informant.
The injured man had recently offered assistance to the Police after residents of Hopetown, West Coast Berbice, set a car on fire following an accident.
Injured is 51-year-old Trevor Jameer, a cattle farmer of Hopetown Village, West Coast Berbice. The incident took place just before 07:00h on Friday.
Reports are that the incident reportedly stemmed from Jameer assisting the Police to pull a car out of a trench at Hopetown Village on February 5 during protests.
Back then, villagers had burnt a car after the driver crashed into two cyclists and then fled the scene. The car was reportedly set on fire and subsequently pushed into a trench.
However, Jameer assisted the Police in pulling the vehicle out of the trench, against the wishes of his fellow villagers.
According to the man’s daughter, Travine McCalmont, her father encountered one of the villagers on Friday morning.
“This morning (Friday) he was sitting down by a shop with some friends, the boy come from Bush Lot side and he turn and tell my father that he hear my father say that you gon bus up me head and me father asked him where he get that from. Then he tell my father that he coming back,” she revealed to this publication.
Jameer reportedly did not take the utterances as a threat and remained at the shop.
However, shortly after the suspect returned, bringing with him a container with kerosene.
“He throw it on my father and he had a stick with fire and he just put the stick to him and he catch afire.”
Jameer received burns to his right upper body including his back. He was taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital for treatment and then transferred to New Amsterdam Hospital.
The matter has since been reported to the Police, who are on the hunt for the suspect. (G4)