By Byron McDaniel, Gleaner WriterWALDERSTON:
A MAN has been arrested by the Christiana police in connection with the knife attack on a female Cuban nurse at the Nurses' Quarters on the hospital compound early on the morning of Wednesday, August 6.
The nurse, Latiza Apolas, is a member of a Cuban health team on a two-year contract in the island, and is assigned to the Percy Junor Hospital.
Apolas told the police that at about 8:30 a.m. last Wednesday, she was awakened by a knock on her room door. Believing it was a co-worker, she responded by opening the door and was confronted by a man brandishing a knife.
She made an alarm and the man slashed her on the left arm before running from the room. She recognised the man as the person she had seen leaving the apartment the Monday before, when she had discovered US$250 and J$600 missing.
The suspect in police custody is being held pending an identification parade to be held later this week.
