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A dis­pute over un­paid en­trance fees at the Ar­gyle Wa­ter­fall in To­ba­go end­ed in vi­o­lence on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon, when a man was chopped dur­ing a con­fronta­tion.

Po­lice said 56-year-old Samuel Bap­tiste, a farmer from Main Road, Ar­gyle, was lead­ing a group of five peo­ple across the riv­er—al­leged­ly to avoid pay­ing en­trance fees—when he was con­front­ed by a craft ven­dor. The in­ci­dent oc­curred around 2:15 p.m.

The ven­dor re­port­ed­ly told Bap­tiste it was un­fair to bring peo­ple in­to the site with­out pay­ing, as it could neg­a­tive­ly im­pact his busi­ness.