A 21-year-old Maraval woman was stabbed on Sunday while liming at a popular bar in Maracas Bay. The incident took place after the bmobile promotion fete on the beach. Nathalia Subero, 21, of Moraldo Street in Maraval, is in stable condition at Port-of-Spain General Hospital, after suffering stab wounds to the neck and hands with a broken bottle.
Police said the assailant was another woman, and that an arrest was imminent.
The highly-anticipated daytime event was the network's final summer campaign, and featured a number of activities for pre-registered participants. There was also live entertainment by two of the country's biggest bands, Shurwayne Winchester and YOU, and Bunji Garlin, his wife Fay Anne and the Asylum Family. Before the performances, though, spectators were kept entertained by competitive sporting action among teams led by popular radio and television personalities: Sunny Bling, Jason Williams, Blaze, Tamara, Shal Marshall and Synergy TV's Whitney Husbands.
Traffic heading to the popular beach facility remained bumper-to-bumper throughout the day, with police forced to patrol miles along the North Coast Road, both during and after the event. Highlight of the day, however, came with the live entertainment, provided first by Shurwayne and YOU, who brought on Jamaica's female dancehall act, Bad Gyal Ce'Cile, and then later on, by The Asylum Band which, at one point had to call on the police to break up a fight in the crowd.
Road March winner, Fay Ann Lyons, just before the band's exit, stunned many when she berated those who felt she'd won her crowns this year because of her pregnancy. By 6.30 pm, the momentum shifted from the beach to a bar where the stabbing incident occurred. Traffic made it difficult to transport the victim out of the area. However, Maracas police said they carried the woman on a stretcher and finally caught up with the EHS along the road. Ten people were reportedly detained on charges, ranging from robbery to marijuana possession.
