Law and order in Guyana...sweet like sumutu...

Who among us could not predict this outcome? We are fostering a culture of untouchables. The common street punk goes to jail for 3 years for a gram of mary jane and this serial abuser, accused rapist supposedly committing the act in possession of a firearm, walks!! What is this poor girl to do? It is clear she has not backup in the system where it should be!

And what the hell is this notion of special body for high profile pepople? What qualifdies one for high profile...being a serial abuser and accused rapist as this one or the fact he is a minister's son? The chief of police should never be confirmed for this job.

This is the brutal story attached to this case.

Govt minister's son allegedly assaults ex-girlfriend

• Sunday, 23 June 2013 21:41
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The son of a government minister has allegedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend, leaving her with a swollen right eye and tender head just days before she had been due to give birth to their baby.

27-year old Vanisha Seenauth alleged that Robeson Benn Jr. barged into her home during the pre-dawn hours of Sunday when she opened the door and assaulted her.

Obviously traumatized by an abusive relationship, a crying Seenauth said that on hearing someone knock on the door she opened thinking that it was her brother whom she had been expecting. She said when her brother arrived later, she sent him away because she did not want him to see her face.

When told of the alleged occurrence, the younger Benn’s mother sounded quite distressed

Picture of first beating....

So another PPP hitman goes unpunished. The PPP has been claiming how the police are in the hand of the PNC. But as facts show, the PPP are the ones in control of the police.

where is basemabn on this.

former minista-in-charge priya venting on FaceBook bout how de girl family should beat he up . . . smh

Is this really a political matter or a case of police taking bribe and dropping charges. Why does every incident in the nation have to run all the way up to ppp ministers. What the young lady needs to do now is bring a civil case against the bastard. It is the culture in Guyana to black up them eye and bruise up them knees when they get out of hand, this has to change but it will only happen when society becomes more aware and reject it as a norm.

Many of you naysayers should look in your own backyards and see the same situation in the US where assault cases are given lenient punishment and defendants are given bail or set free until a court date.

I honestly beleive that all political strings should be cut and make Benn Jr a national example that no one is above the law. I was shocked when I read the news that he was released without charges. Ordinary citizens are being fined, put on bail, or jailed for a lessor crimes. Nigel Hughes took a bribe to turn a blind eye? I thought he was representing the victim.  

Where are the outcries from the PPP about the police not doing its job? There are none, because the police were ordered by the PPP to let the PPP hitman Benn walk.

Coounscie/Benn had to take a day off from posting on GNI while in custody. 

when i finally though you might be a human being you show people you still a snake i know there is no god in guyana

The govt has more important things to do than rush to appease you folks thirst for blood at every incident. Don't expect govt to jump everytime you deem a matter important for political purposes.

You consider beating a defenceless woman a political act??? You must be a barbaric wife beater if those are your moral values.

These incidents are only minor things for the underlying causes of a country that is already in similar fashions to Liberia.

It is possible the governing party has in its capabilities the desires to waste ppl who causes them problems. What did Sadam Hussein sons did to his ppl. Even Khadafi sons.

That man Jagan saddled the country he stole from the British under false pretences wid the help of his fellow indoes. 

You consider it a political act since you indict the entire government based on the alleged action of one person who happens to be the son of a Minister. 

This guy should be arrested and put in jail. You do not put your hands on a woman, period. 

the police chief asks for a special body to "address high profile problems". I do not understand what he means but I guess it is code for the ruling class sense of entitlement is encouraged in the society and he cannot handle it given the political fall out. He wants an out.

I say, his ass should be in jail with no bail until a trial. This is not the first time he has beaten this woman. He supposedly kicked her in the stomach causeing her to have a miscarriage. Others are claiming he beat them also. He has abused a police woman calling her a bitch and telling her he is a ministers son and she could not do anything to him. He was right.

Therefore, this is political sludge. If young people can be thrown in the slammer for 1 gram of maryjane while those caught red handed with 40 Kg  of cocaine walk ( Mool Persaud et al) then the system is  gamed for the elites as the police chief suggests.

Further, the proof is in the pudding. A woman has her face beaten to a pulp and was raped,  she said, by an ex whom she identifies. On record is a previous beating and a stabbing that caused him to end up in the hospital. She said it was in a struggle to  allay a beating she was receiving at his hands. There is photographic evidence of her previous injuries as well. I do not know what else one need to get one arrested. Maybe Priya is right, she need to get her family to put a beating on his ass  It seems that is how we do justice at home.

Fair, sir.

At least, the Women's Progressive Organization [WPO], the female arm of the PPP, could have issued a statement expressing disapproval of young Benn's alleged battering of the woman. The WPO is customarily quick to speak out against domestic violence. The WPO's untypical silence on this particular act of abuse is deafening and puzzling, not so?

this ppp government have turn guyana in a little hell a government without any standard were is rohee you mean to say that there is no government minister with a backbone to speak out against these act of lawlessness 

Again, I refer you to the police leadership, Brummel and his direct reports. Why did you bypass them for accountability and go all the way up to the PPP leadership? No one is refuting that the woman was abused, however what we want to understand is why the police are not doing their jobs of bringing charges against this person. Your assumption is that this person is given preferential treatment due to his political affiliation. I take it a step further and claim that it is a nationwide affliction where women are battered at will by the males in their lives and the police does nothing. Solving the wider problem is more important than concentrating on the political issue. 

The hypocrisy of some advocacy groups

Dear Editor,
The hypocrisy of some women’s right organization is just inexplicable.  There is a certain domestic abuse advocacy group called the Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) with members such as Anand Budram, Dianne Madray and Sukree Boodram who all and sundry would want to support since their mission is to provide a safe environment for individuals combat domestic violence.  Noble objective indeed!
No human being will have any problem with that since they are supposed to fight a plague called domestic violence in the Caribbean especially Guyana.  What really bothers me is how these PPP satellites can choose to press some abusers and cut others much slack.
Unfortunately the issue of domestic violence does not give us the latitude to pick and choose. This is not politics; this is life and death for the victims.
In March 2013, when member of the AFC Charandass Persaud made disparaging remarks about a certain female doctor, Ms. Diane Madray, a CADVA member on her Facebook page claimed that she is “outraged and … certainly hope that the AFC executives apologise… as it is an attack on all women”.
She was quite in order to demand an apology from Mr. Persaud to which he thoughtfully did soon after the transgression.  Great work on that issue CADVA!
But to my grave disappointment, today with photographic and documentary evidence at their disposal and an alleged accusation against Mr. Robeson Benn Jnr, the son of a Minister of the PPP Government for rape, physical and mental abuse of a country girl from Essequibo, this same CADVA issued a totally different statement.  In this case this is worst by indescribable magnitudes; CADVA extends their “thoughts and prayers for Miss Vanisha Seenauth as she is attempting to recover physically and emotionally from the attack by her alleged abuser, Robeson Benn Jr.”
No outrage from Ms Madray or Ms Boodram or Mr. Budram; no demand for justice from these so called domestic abuse advocates, no firm condemnation of these alleged multiple acts of domestic terror against this young lady even though the picture of the victim is all over the world now with her “bloodshot eyes”.
It really sickens my stomach when an organization takes funds from donors to do work in areas that the world really need help, but chooses to protect political godfathers when the oppressor and domestic terrorist is allegedly a son of one of their god fathers.
Shame on CADVA!
Further, I hear nothing from the PPP- women’s arm the WPO, the AFC women’s arm the WFC, or the PNC women’s arm the WRSM.  Where is Red Thread, the Rights of the Child Organisation, the Amerindian People’s Association, the Guyana Human Right Association and all these organizations that were set up to protect our women and those who had their rights violated?  Where is Gail Teixeira, Indra Chandarpal, Cathy Hughes, Debra Backer and all these women?  What happen to the new charm of the PPP and newly minted President of the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha, Ms Vindya Persaud?  What happened to First Lady Deolatchmie Ramotar? Has women’s right fallen off the map for them because the alleged perpetrator is one of their own? How can I respect them ever again?
Guyana is really a sad place when these princelings of the PPP can pull gun, break people’s limbs and now they have moved into a different zone with these allegation of rape and brutalization of an extreme magnitude.
But what is worst is the hypocrisy from the established women right’s group on this issue.
This child could have been by daughter.  Shame on you women of Guyana!
Munish Jayaram

this problem is world wide you can try this shit in canada

What I know is that a person is innocent until proven guilty. The WPO would be remiss on jumping on the bandwagon of bashers when the case is not even proven. For all we know the young woman could have set this entire affair up at the behest of the AFC/pnc. The law has to take its course. 

The law has apparently already taken its course because the alleged batterer has been released.

Maybe you need to find out why he was released, already you pronounced this fellow guilty based on news reports. While we may have opinions as to innocence or guilt, we need to let the law take its course as we see with the Trayvon Martin case. 

Looks like Zimmerman will walk within two weeks.  Case over, that 19 yr old illiterate state star witness handed it to the defense.

That can't happen. If he walks there will be nationwide riots. Remember Rodney King. In this case someone died.

It has to be on the merits.  I don't say Zimmerman is not guilty of anything, but he may walk in 2nd degree, which means he walk.

Zimmermann killed a man and everyone knows this, he will have to face the consequences despite all the legal niceities.

which law guyana have one of those

What you mean?  From what I see thus far, Zimmerman is mounting a good "self defense" case.  Sound to me like the prosecutor selling out the case calling witnesses who corroborate Zimmerman's position.  What a disaster.

At the end of the proceedings, there will be a decision.

However, individuals do have their personal views.

Okay, I'm now presuming the fellow's innocence.

Looking at Benn's ex-girlfriend Vanisha Seenauth's face in that photo from this standpoint, I am left to pronounce that a UFO gave her the black eye.

There are 3/4 million people in Guyana, pick anyone of them then move on to UFO. You keep missing the point, everyone is entitled to due process. Even thought it appears that Benn was the culprit, we can not assemble a lynch mob without a trial. Even the worst criminal is afforded a trial.  The black eye is a simple assault, it happens everyday in the US and people are not even arrested.   

So says, His Lordship 

I see Druggies support homan beating once is ah PPP man doing the beating

If something happen more than once then one may cautiously hint at a pattern of behavior. When it is so much familiar, ie the sun coming up in the morning then it is predictable in science and society it constitute a practice.

It is clearly a matter of the expectations of the society from the privileged untouchable class created by the PPP . Ramotar’s son, Repu’s son, Nanda’s son too privileges no less in their serious criminal infractions before the state.

If the young lady could not get acknowledgement in  a criminal case and the young man walked despite the serious accusation of rape and aggravated assault while in possession of a fire arm, do you think she stand much of a chance otherwise in a system not geared for civil suits?

How can the society take back its authority if not rescinding the authority of the PPP? I think you would not want that. Preventing that  is the reason you are here making the devils bargain daily and lying your ass off on their account.

In the US there are systems in place to address the issue or rape. Ask those indo boys who are ending up in Rikers or put out of their homes on account of abusing ( even verbally) their wife . No one is suggesting that there are not too many of these cases presenting but victims are not subjected to systematic neglect and political abused when they complain.

I would not call you an illiterate but your ability to reason from a definite input is clearly wacky. There is no evidence that the young woman is illiterate. As a matter of fact she is literate in three languages and English is clearly not her first language.

If Zimmerman walks is not because anything in this young woman’s demeanor, intellect  or retelling of a story intimate her has been compromise despite being 4 hours on the stand and facing down hostile and withering cross examination.

You have to be joking, in the US men abuse their spouse and the police don't even hold them overnight, they walk in a few hours and show up in family court a week later. Don't try to hold up the US as a shining star of women's rights. Canada is much more rigorous in this type of crime.  It is a case of assault with questionable rape allegations. Don't know the laws of Guyana that well but it seems that the police did not have enough evidence to hold the man, not even an eyewitness. It was a he said she said story. The black eye is evidence of abuse but in no way shows that it was perpetrated by the suspect. It is circumstantial evidence at most. 

you waste my time with various and sundry non sequiturs. This form of argument is the sister of hasty generalization; over generalization. Because it happens in the good old USOFA it cannot be wrong for it to happen in Guyana. Well, the release of this serial abuser for the umpteenth time is a travesty in the law and emerges from the unaccountability of the elites. It is the reason the Chief of Police stupidly suggests that maybe we need a specially constituted body to deal with "high profile persons". Like you he is mad and a dunce.

hahaha, you were the one who brought the US into the conversation, holding it up as a knight in shining armor until I deflated your balloon. 

I don't know that this man is guilty of the crime, I may have an opinion to his guilt but given the afc/pnc's track record of staging situations, most recently the Amerindian kids fetching firewood. 

If indeed you and the court of public opinion were the final arbiter of guilt and innocence then we wouldn't the courts would we? Let the law take its course and stop passing judgement from your armchair in the West.  

These are your words knuckle head "Many of you naysayers should look in your own backyards and see the same situation in the US where assault cases are given lenient punishment and defendants are given bail or set free until a court date." I am responding to that. You are introducing the US as your evidence that this can be tolerable so any balloons to be deflated would more likely be your head.

No one is saying this gentleman should not get his day. That he is left to his own and not held on bail etc means he is not considered to have done anything worthy of concern in the eye of the law. That is what infuriates those of us who see this as another plague on our society, "preferential treatment before the law".

For one who celebrates the extrajudicial practices of Jagdeo you need to be speaking to your own conscience about letting the legal system work. But as usual, you are an inconsistent twit.

I am allowed to pass judgement as a thinking being with a moral framework from which to look at the world. The PPP are not special in any way except as crooks.

 As a person with an alleged black kid, you should sympathize with Benn, especially if he was setup by the woman's Indo relatives. It is known that Indians view a Black man with an Indian woman as the ultimate disgrace worthy of a honor killing. Who is to say that the Indian relatives didn't black and blue the woman's eye and blame it on Benn, a black man?

Your hatred of the PPP have clouded your judgment once again as you fall for the traps set by the Indos and are willing to circumvent the rule of law in your thirst for blood.