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Prison time gets easier for killer of wife

who was nine months pregnant

When the vicious killer of her months of what a judge would later
pregnant daughter was sent away call his “abusive and controlling “
for life with no chance of parole for behaviour,” the 26-year-old bank
Before you know it, he’ll be
17 years, Sherry Goberdhan naively employee left him and moved back
in the minimum security
expected he’d remain behind bars in with her parents in Ajax.
next door,” the angry mom said.
in maximum security. According to the sentencing judge, “This crime is so heinous, it is
That, at the very least, Nicholas their deteriorating relationship so horrific and you’re telling
Baig would be doing hard time was reflected in the vile texts Baig me that because of his good
before he had the chance to emerge began sending his estranged wife, behaviour and some courses
and start life over at the young age calling her “a skank” and a “dumb, he’s doing in there, it makes
of 42. f—— slut.” him able to leave maximum
But just two years after her former He told her “I want nothing to do already?”
son-in-law was sent to Millhaven with you or this baby anymore” and Where’s the justice in that,
Penitentiary for the brutal slaying “I hope you die delivering.” she demands.
of Arianna Goberdhan, Baig has On another text he declared,
already been “cascaded down” to “You’re dead to me. You won’t rise
Beaver Creek Institution’s medium from no ashes.” Arianna Goberdhan and Nicholas Baig (courtesy Facebook)
security site in Gravenhurst — On the night of April 7, 2017, Baig
billed as an “open campus design lured her to his parents’ Pickering Under Canadian law, Asaara would lawmakers who worried such a
responsibility model.” home and fulfilled one of his many have been considered a homicide change would lead down the
Or as one former inmate described threats. victim only if she died “after slippery slope of eroding abortion
i t : a “ c o l l e g e - d o r m - l i k e There are no words for the violent becoming a human being … rights.
environment” where inmates cook rage he inflicted on his pregnant completely proceeded, in a living “He was not held accountable for
their own food. ex. Just 20 days before she was due state, from the body of its mother.” the death of my grandchild,”
How can that be? to deliver the daughter she’d I n t h e e y e s o f a g r i e v i n g Goberdhan complains. “We did the
“Before you know it, he’ll be in the already named Asaara, Baig grandmother, though, Baig killed whole petition thing but it went
minimum security next door,” the stabbed her 17 times – seven times Sherry Goberdhan, two people that night, not one. She nowhere. That needs to change as
angry mom said. “This crime is so in the torso, seven times in the mother of Arianna, a victim and her husband mounted a well.”
heinous, it is so horrific and you’re head and neck, and three times in of domestic violence campaign calling on Parliament to She sighs.
telling me that because of his good the arm. change the law so that “when an “As the mother of a victim of
behaviour and some courses he’s And then he left her — and their assailant in a commission of a domestic violence, I thought the
doing in there, it makes him able to baby — to die. His motive, he explained, was this: crimeattacks a pregnant woman sentence of 17 years (parole
leave maximum already?” The judge called it “close to first- “She was planning on leaving the and injures or kills her pre-born ineligibility) was nothing. What
Where’s the justice in that, she degree murder” but Baig was able night of the offence and I did not child, then the assailant may be message does that send? And then
demands. to plead guilty to one count of want her to leave.” charged with an offence on behalf to move him from maximum to
Her daughter married Baig in second-degree murder. He called it How lucky for him that causing the of the pre-born child.” medium? He’s laughing in our
November 2016 after she became a mistake; he saw himself as a death of his full-term, unborn They called it Arianna’s Law. But it face.”
pregnant. But following several victim. daughter carried no penalty. met with opposition from mmandel@postmedia.com

our customers in our overseas
Remittances assists families markets, many found creative ways
to ensure that their families back
home were not left vulnerable to
during the pandemic economic shocks, because their
relatives needed to pay bills,
purchase food or medication.
Many found ways to stay safe while
remaining connected to their loved
For many people in Jamaica, “ ones; and therefore, used our
remittances from the United State online services; or used the time
of America during the COVID-19 Based on feedback received from our customers in our overseas available when they could go out to
pandemic, have contributed to an markets, many found creative ways to ensure that their families do their transactions,” he stated.
essential part of their survival, back home were not left vulnerable to economic shocks, because “The determination and resilience
because it has allowed them to their relatives needed to pay bills, purchase food or medication. of our people were reflected in the
meet their daily expenses. Many found ways to stay safe while remaining connected to their 2020 Bank of Jamaica’s figures,
“My salary was reduced by almost loved ones; and therefore, used our online services; or used the time which revealed that, Jamaicans
half, last year shortly after the available when they could go out to do their transactions,” he stated. abroad sent home approximately
pandemic began. And if it were not “The determination and resilience of our people were reflected in US$2.91 billion. This figure
for the remittances from my the 2020 Bank of Jamaica’s figures, which revealed that, Jamaicans represented a 20 per cent increase
brother in United States of abroad sent home approximately US$2.91 billion. over the January to December 2019
America, I do not know how I period, when remittance inflows
would have managed. The funds Horace Hines, General Manager JN Money Services, totalled US$2.42 billion. That
assisted me to pay the bills and owners and operators of the JN Money Brand. figure also represented some 21
provide for my family,” explained percent of our Gross Domestic
Brian Richardson, a 38-year-old investments in education, health, to the pandemic, it took pressure survival. For some, it helps with Product. These figures are
electrician. and entrepreneurship. off many social services and purchasing devices and data plans important because they help our
“Currently my salary has returned The World Bank also reveals that reduced the burden on the state. to assist with online schooling,” he economy during these challenging
to the normal level; however, I am since the start of the pandemic, Mr Lozer emphasized that this was added. time,” he added.
unable to do overtime, because my global remittances for 2020 was even more important during the Horace Hines, General Manager JN Whether remittances are used to
company is still not at the stage about 1.9 per cent lower than the pandemic with many persons Money Services, owners and buy food or cover medical
where they were prior to the 2019 figures, with US$540 billion in either losing their jobs, or having operators of the JN Money Brand, expenses, its importance has not
pandemic. The remittances from transactions compared with $548 their incomes reduced. added that figures from the Bank of been lost on many, especially those
my brother assists me in meet my billion the previous year. The “If it weren’t for remittances, many Jamaica revealed an increase in employed in sectors which have
other obligations,” he added. multilateral agency stated that this more persons would have fallen remittances sent to Jamaica last been adversely affected by the
Prior to the pandemic, a report figure was higher than earlier below the poverty line, due to loss year. Mr Hines noted that many pandemic.
f r o m t h e I n t e r - A m e r i c a n predictions of low remittance of employment or reduction in Jamaicans living overseas were “Since March last year, I have relied
Development Bank (IDB) revealed transactions. The report added hours. It meant that the various employed in the essential services on remittances to help me with the
that, remittances have become the that migrant workers cut their initiatives implemented by the sectors such as health and shortfall in my income,” Marsha
world’s largest poverty reduction consumption patterns, reduced Government to alleviate poverty transportation and remain Campbell, a restaurant worker in
programme, for some ten million their savings, or benefitted from would have to be widened, and that employed. He said many navigated Kingston said. “I now work less
families in Latin America and the unemployment programmes in would have impacted our economy the challenges associated with hours; and it were not for the
Caribbean, who relied on funds their countries of residence, in even more,” Mr Lozer affirmed. l o c kd ow n s i n t h e v a r i o u s remittances from my sister and her
from abroad to fend off poverty. In order to support families in their “The remittances during the countries, to send remittances husband abroad, things would
addition, the IDB stated that homeland. pandemic formed a part of our home. He added that others used have been harder. I am able to pay
remittances helped households to Economist Kemmehi Lozer social safety net, because most online services to ensure that their my bills and purchase food, which
maintain their consumption levels, explained that remittances played people use it to pay rent, utilities, loved ones in Jamaica were able to would not have happened without
through economic shocks and an important role in the lives of purchase medication, food and survive. funds from overseas.”
adversity; and supports vital many people. He added that prior other items needed for their daily “Based on feedback received from