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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Murder of Diego woman opens old wound for singer

Lady Lava warns women: Be mindful about people you are around

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29 days ago
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Lady Lava

Lady Lava

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Jensen La Vende

Se­nior Re­porter

jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt

Singer/song­writer Keisha Har­ris, bet­ter known by her stage name La­dy La­va, is ad­vis­ing women to be aware of the dan­gers they face and to trust their in­stincts.

Tak­ing a step away from her raunchy lyrics, Har­ris yes­ter­day called on peo­ple, women in par­tic­u­lar, to be mind­ful of their sur­round­ings.

The zess/dance­hall artiste is­sued the warn­ing as she com­ment­ed on the mur­der of Diego Mar­tin res­i­dent Sa­van­na Dy­er.

Dy­er, 20, of Riv­er Es­tate, was found along Xeres Road in Carlsen Field. Po­lice said Dy­er had a wound to the head and of­fi­cers sus­pect she was killed and her body dumped in the cen­tral area.

Be­fore she was killed, Dy­er made sev­er­al so­cial me­dia posts af­ter spend­ing the evening out with friends.

Har­ris said, “We re­al­ly have to be mind­ful about the peo­ple that we are around, the friends that we have, the peo­ple are we get­ting to know. Some­times yuh might get a feel­ing about them, you know, fol­low your feel­ings, your in­tu­ition kicks in. It’s okay to say no.”

Har­ris, in a video post­ed on Tik­Tok, said Dy­er’s mur­der re-opened an old wound for her of when a rel­a­tive was al­so mur­dered.

“Peo­ple that know my fam­i­ly know that we had an ex­pe­ri­ence of this where some­body was miss­ing, some­body close to us was miss­ing. Prac­ti­cal­ly, we lived to­geth­er and you know, she was mur­dered. She was com­ing home from work and you know, she just called like a few min­utes be­fore she reached home and stuff and then that was it.”

Har­ris did not ex­plain who her rel­a­tive was nor did she go in­to de­tails about when the in­ci­dent oc­curred.

How­ev­er, the singer added, “So that was a trau­ma for my fam­i­ly. So every time I see a young la­dy miss­ing it brings back up that trau­ma. The whole or­deal of it hap­pen­ing, the day when it hap­pened in­to the night go­ing in­to the oth­er day, just hear­ing every car and think­ing the per­son go­ing to show up and every­thing, it comes back. She was just trav­el­ling home. She just took a wrong ve­hi­cle home and that was the end.”

Har­ris ad­vised women to trust their in­tu­ition say­ing if they got a “fun­ny feel­ing” while in a car they should get out. This was al­so ex­tend­ed to men as well as she stressed that life was pre­cious and could, un­for­tu­nate­ly, be cut short.


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