A 36-year old Guyanese woman, Nalini Persaud, was found hanging by the neck by her teenaged daughter on Friday, May 7, sometime after 2:00 p.m. inside the kitchen area in her Bath Village abode in Nevis. The suicide occurred three days after her boyfriend passed away by ingesting liquid poison.

According to Inspector Mitchell of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force, officers were called to Bath Village at around 2:30 p.m., where they discovered Persaud on the kitchen floor with a "cement rope" about her neck.

She was reportedly rushed straight to the Alexandra Hospital via ambulance, but was pronounced dead on arrival.

Persaud's daughter, Bohawantie, reported to the police that when she came home, she found her mother in the aforementioned state and immediately sought to cut the rope using a knife.

Persaud was the live-in girlfriend of the late Guyanese national Shivpaul "Blako" Balgobin, 31, who had been living in Nevis for at least nine years before committing suicide on May 4.

Reports suggest that the two had a disagreement in the morning of Saturday, May 1. Soon afterward, he traveled to work on her father's farm in the aforementioned village.

A relative reportedly said that while he was on the farm at around noon, he drank some poisonous substance called gramoxone, and then went home.

"When he got home, he went and lay down in a hammock and his girlfriend saw that he was frothing from the mouth. She immediately called the police and they took him to Alexandra Hospital. He was admitted and they tried to save his life, but I got a message that he died at approximately 5:00 this morning (May 4)," said the relative.
Balgobin was buried on Saturday, May 8 at the Bath Village Cemetery.

Persaud's death was the third suicide this year involving a Guyanese national on Nevis. In the first, Yudesh Persaud, 15, hanged himself from a tree near his residence in Cane Garden, on Wednesday, March 17, at about 5:40 a.m. He was last seen alive at 9:30 p.m. the previous evening.

District Medical Officer Dr. Chandy Jacobs pronounced him dead on the scene at around 7:00 a.m. There were no apparent signs of violence on his body, and foul play was ruled out after investigations took place.

The boy's mother received treatment for shock at Alexandra Hospital after losing consciousness upon seeing her son's body hanging from the tree.