Bernadine Cummings is still trying to come to terms with the arrest of her two sons for the murder of senior counsel Dana Seetahal.
Cummings’ two sons—Davoughn, 27, and Stephan, 33—along with nine other men were charged with the May 4, 2014, murder of Seetahal.
Standing behind the front gate of her Poui Street, Malabar, home on Thursday, Cummings broke down in tears as she related the close bond she shared with her sons, mainly Davoughn, who is popularly known in the community as Boyo.
“Boyo is my boy. He always tries to make everyone happy. He would come and take his nieces and nephews out for the day. He loves children and life.”
On Thursday, Cummings visited Davoughn at the Maximum State Prison in Arouca for the first time since his July 18 arrest. “It was really a sad day in prison. Boyo kept telling me not to worry. But as a mother, your heart would still pain seeing him in jail. I started to cry. He tried to comfort me saying to hold strong and that everything will be okay, but I became emotional too. All I saw was tears streaming down his face. We were both crying. It was really a touching moment.” While she was speaking to the Sunday Guardian, three of Davoughn’s friends came out of a car and asked Cummings if she had visited her son in prison. “Yes, Boyo cried like a baby when he saw me. His face looked fat and nice. He seemed not too worried,” Cummings told them. On Wednesday, Cummings, a mother of 11, said the Port-of-Spain Prison did not allow her to see Stephan, who she only described as “silent.”
Stephan, a father of three, recently got married. Cummings described Davoughn as a lover of women, rum, friends, boat rides and parties. “He was a peacemaker and community builder. You could ask anybody on the street about him and they would all tell you the same story. If Boyo sees a lizard passing in front of this gate he would run. He is a coward.”
Cummings said she would leave everything in God’s hands.