Sascha Wil­son

Cry­ing as the hearse was leav­ing with her daugh­ter’s body for the cre­ma­tion site yes­ter­day, Si­ta Mo­hammed be­moaned, “Girl you re­al­ly leav­ing me? You re­al­ly go­ing? You did not de­serve this.”

While lift­ing the youngest of her daugh­ter Sali­na Mo­hammed’s two chil­dren, she gen­tly touched the hearse as it left fol­low­ing Sali­na’s fu­ner­al ser­vice at their Palmiste Bend, Co­conut Dri­ve, San Fer­nan­do.

Sali­na was gunned down not far away from their home on Feb­ru­ary 2 af­ter she left in her ve­hi­cle to go to work short­ly be­fore 8 am.

Ini­tial po­lice re­ports in­di­cat­ed that she was stopped by a man who shot her mul­ti­ple times.

In the eu­lo­gy, Mo­hammed’s 16-year-old daugh­ter de­scribed her moth­er as a strong and out­spo­ken woman.

Say­ing that her moth­er sac­ri­ficed, even if she had to do with­out, to en­sure that she and her sev­en-year-old broth­er had every­thing they need­ed or want­ed, she added, “She made sure that our fu­ture was her num­ber one pri­or­i­ty and she ful­filled all her du­ties as a moth­er. She spared no ex­pense sac­ri­fice or run around to make sure that we had every­thing for school and that every­thing was done on time. Even if she had to stay awake all night. I will sure­ly miss every­thing about her from her cook­ing to her yelling even the licks.”

Relatives carry the casket of Salina Mohammed, during her funeral service at Palmiste Bend, Coconut Drive, in San Fernando, on Friday.

RISHI RAGOONATH

She said her moth­er was strong-will, stub­born, a per­fec­tion­ist and a no-non­sense per­son.

“Mum­my was hard-work­ing and sac­ri­ficed a lot to get where she was and every­thing she had. She was nev­er the type to take hand­outs or any­thing from any­one. She worked hard to get her own,” she added.

Re­call­ing how her moth­er had a sweet voice and was al­ways singing, she said, “We know that mum­my knows how much we tru­ly love, ap­pre­ci­ate and are thank­ful for each and every­thing she did for us and will con­tin­ue to do for us in spir­it. She will be missed dear­ly.”

Of­fi­ci­at­ing pun­dit Vish­nu Maraj de­scribed Sali­na as a pos­i­tive and strong woman.

“I pray with the fam­i­ly for all her wish­es which she had for her chil­dren to be­come a re­al­i­ty for them to grow and be suc­cess­ful. And for Nari to be able to stand here in her ab­sence and do the best as a sin­gle par­ent from this day,” he said.

Scores of mourn­ers turned out to bid their fi­nal farewell and among the songs they played in her trib­ute was Ce­line Dion’s Good­bye’s (The Sad­dest Word).

The cre­ma­tion took place at the Shore of Peace, Mos­qui­to Creek, South Oropouche.

Salina Mohammed