Murder victim’s mom misses her flight

Chandroutee Ramper-sad, mother of Philadelphia murder victim, Pramatee Celestine, yesterday missed her flight to the US. She arrived at the airport at 3.30 pm. The scheduled flight departure was 3.45 pm. Airline officials told her she had arrived too late because airline regulations required her to check-in two hours before departure. Lamenting the fact that she could not get another flight out of the country, Rampersad said she was told she that she could get a BWIA flight, but at an additional cost of TT $2000. “I am helpless right now,” she cried, adding that she “did not have that kind of money.” Her daughter Seeta was also unsuccessful in obtaining a US Visa, so that she could accompany her mother to Philadelphia to make proper funeral arrangements for her slain sibling.

Pramatee, a 29 year old Trinidadian  mother of two was shot to death by her former common-law husband Cyprin Diaz, 54, in Philadelphia, USA, on Tuesday. Diaz also killed Pramatee’s husband of 10 months, US resident Eugene Celestine. Cyprin’s twin brother, Felix, admitted that the relationship between his brother and Pramatee had not always been smooth, and that they had two children, Michael, 14 and Randy, 10. Speaking with Newsday, Chandroutee still expressed fears that the killer would target the rest of her family, but admitted when questioned that there had been no contact by either the killer, or his family. Stating that she was “stranded right now,” Chandroutee once again stressed that she was not getting encouragement from any quarter, and that she was not seeing hope anywhere.