Widow applies for Sumairsingh’s estate

THE WIDOW of murdered Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corp-oration Chairman Hansraj Su-mairsingh has filed for letters of administration for her husband’s estate.  However, Sumairsingh’s two children from a previous marriage have filed caveats, indicating that they have an interest in their father’s estate. 

However, the six months effective life span of the caveats have expired and their stepmother’s lawyer has since asked the court to grant her application for letters of administration. Sumairsingh, also called Soomairsingh, died without leaving a will. Following his death, Sandra Sumairsingh, a checker, had her attorney Winston Seenath make the application for probate but Sumairsingh’s two children, Kavita and Visham, filed caveats through the law firm of Ramnarine and Persad of Irvin Street, San Fernando. In her application, Sandra Sumairsingh said her late husband’s address was 100 Tabaquite Road, Rio Claro, and he was killed at Eccles Road, Grand Lagoon, Mayaro.

She said he had $638.54 in the bank and had no stock, shares or cash in hand. However, he had an insurance policy with Guardian Life for $151,165.03, as well as three parcels of land with buildings on them. At Lot 3A, Killdeer Junction, Rio Claro, he owned a house and land valued at $160,000. Also at Killdeer Junction, he owned another piece of land and a house valued at $176,000. The Eccles Road, Mayaro beach house where he was killed was valued at $143,000. Sumairsingh also had his gratuity payment which amounted to $23,893.00. The total value of his estate is $654,696.57. In spite of the expiration of the caveats, there are two queries the widow must satisfy before receiving her letters of administration. She must make a statutory declaration accounting for all the names of the deceased and domicile of the deceased.  

The Sumairsinghs were married on January 24, 1999 and he was shot to death at his beach house on December 31 of that same year. Former Government Minister Dhanraj Singh is currently on trial for Sumairsingh’s murder before Justice Melville Baird in the San Fernando Assizes.