Lonely New Year’s Day for Prof Naraynsingh and wife

MURDER accused Professor Vijay Naraynsingh and wife Seeromanie are not being allowed any visitors at Golden Grove Prisons in Arouca during the Christmas and New Year holidays. A prison source disclosed to Newsday, that not until January 3, will relatives be allowed to visit the Naraynsinghs who are charged together with San Fernando businessman Elton Ramasir, for the 1994 murder of Prof Naraynsingh’s then wife — Dr Chandra Naraynsingh.

Newsday was told standard prison regulations stipulated that visitors of inmates were not allowed during the Christmas holidays. Naraynsingh and Seeromanie who are being kept in the Remand Yard section of the prison, are being allowed to have home-cooked meals delivered to them by relatives on a daily basis. Up until Christmas Eve, last Friday, relatives were allowed after routine inspection, to deliver food to Prof Naraynsingh and Seeromanie. This stopped on Christmas Day.

The prison source said food for the Naraynsinghs was dropped off at the gates and no contact was allowed. Not even Naraynsingh’s daughter Anamika was allowed, the source added. When Prof Naraynsingh, Seeromanie and Ramasir appeared last week Thursday before deputy Chief Magistrates for continuation of the Preliminary Inquiry, the professor’s daughter Anamika was allowed a brief visit in the Holding Bay below the courthouse. There she chatted freely with her father. Dr Naraynsingh, Seeromanie and Ramasir will reappear today as the hearing resumes at 10.30 am. The State is expected to call more witnesses to testify, the most important being Junior Morris to whom immunity was granted by the Director of Public Prosecutions. Queen’s Counsel Karl Hudson-Phillips had called upon the State to disclose the nature of the charge on which the immunity was granted.