Babies grieve for mom on attempted murder charge

EIGHTEEN-month-old Nicholai Nyack and his three-month-old brother, Mikyle, are grieving for their mother, Tricia Maharaj, who appeared before a Couva Magistrate yesterday charged with attempting to murder her common-law husband, Jason Nyack.

Maharaj, 20, was granted bail in the sum of $50,000 but relatives were unable to come up with the money, resulting in her being escorted to the Women’s Prison. Meanwhile, Nyack remains warded in serious condition at San Fernando General Hospital. “These children are suffering and grieving for their mother. Nicholai only asking for his mummy and Mikyle is still breast feeding. He (Mikyle) is only crying because he wants his mother’s breast,” stated Maharaj’s mother Catherine Baptiste, 35.   

The children’s worried grandmother spoke to Newsday yesterday at her home in Pascal Street, Couva. In the event that the father was thinking about taking his children, the protective grandmother said: “my grandchildren are not going anywhere. Their mother worked hard to mind them, and I am not giving them to anybody.” Sitting with her two grandchildren on her lap, Baptiste said neither she nor her husband, Shawn, 24, had the money to stand her daughter’s bail.