Looks like the PNC chose an Indian as a scapegoat for roughing up Lindeners.

Lindeners protest alleged Police excess, brutality 

Some of the protesters at Mackenzie

– say “plastic bags” placed over victims heads

 

BY UTAMU BELL

 

Relatives of a few Lindeners who have been charged in connection with crimes, took to the streets on Friday, demanding the removal of Police Inspector Chubinauth Singh, assigned to E Division (Linden-Kwakwani); Commander Calvin Brutus and Corporal Philbert Kendall.

The protesters who held placards and marched along Republic Avenue, Mackenzie, were mainly the families members of three men charged in connection with a recent robbery which occurred on the Mabura Public road.

Protester Calwyn Croal was wanted in connection with the robbery and was subsequently released after turning himself in.

Allegations were also made by a suspect in relation to another issue, who alleged that he was taken to Bamia Creek along the Soesdyke, Linden Highway, where a plastic bag was placed over his head and he was beaten.

 

A mother’s cry

Eva Stephens, mother of Jevon Scott and Devon Stephens, who have wanted bulletins issued for them in connection with a recent robbery, said her children were in the interior at the time of the incident and she was only made aware of the allegations against them when she saw the wanted bulletins in the newspapers.

As such, she said the Police are “staining” her children’s names.

“These Police come into my home, want go in me house… They say they see Devon riding the bike on the back road going to check truck, like he left a truck there. They hold on pon me son pon the bike. Me son had to ride away because my son don’t have no registration, the bike ain’t in he name, nothing… they torment me and me children. Me son just come from Camp Street, $500,000 bail they put he on, give he two robbery charges, them thing is wrong things. In this country, you guilty before they prove you innocent,” she stated.

Another mother, Coretta Langhorne, alleged that Corporal Kendall and other ranks from the Mackenzie Police Station took her son to a back road where he was beaten to confess to a crime which she claims he is innocent of. According to the woman, her son has been remanded to prison for over a year as a result.

The mother of Phelon Cumberbatch, whom a wanted bulletin was issued for said she did not take her son in to the Police after learning of the wanted bulletin but contacted a lawyer instead, who subsequently took him in.

She said eight counts of break and enter and larceny charges were then laid against him and the matter was tried in Georgetown. According to her, bail was then set at $2 million.

“They couldn’t believe he made bail. When he come up here for court, Philbert Kendall words to him was “Mih guh place things on you so they could lock your a** up back again,” she alleged.

She said her son was subsequently called in for questioning in relation to another offence and each time he attended court in relation to the issue, more charges would be added.

 

Brutus replies

Speaking in relation to the issue, Commander Calvin Brutus contended that the Police are in receipt of enough evidence to charge the trio, noting that a cellphone belonging to one of the victims was found on the person of one of the suspects.

He added that a statement was taken from the suspect, who implicated other perpetuators in the crime. The Commander said this was the basis for the arrest of the other suspects.

“Other members of the same group who were arrested and charged, it goes way back beyond these robberies,” he stated.

The Commander went on to state that the same group of young men were arrested and charged based on the allegation of a skidder wheel which was left at a tire shop.

Brutus added that the victim refused to proceed with the matter which resulted in the defendants not being charged additionally.

He also recounted other allegations of theft which were brought up against the suspects coming out of the Omai and Mabura areas.

Brutus said since the suspects were in hiding, they were not apprehended right away.

He added that the evidence against Calwyn Croal was highly circumstantial and not enough based on legal advice to proceed with the charge; however, it was enough for a wanted bulletin to be issued.

Croal was questioned in relation to the incident, the Commander stated, and the case remains open. Brutus further said the length of the trials were no fault of the Police since they are not directors of the Magistrate’s Courts.

“In relation to the allegations of assault, if that was so, then they should have come forward over a year now…if they are not confident in the office here, there are many other avenues… rather than waiting one year to say ‘my son was beaten’,” he stated.

 

 

Plastic bag over heads

The Commander said he would not confirm or deny the case of the plastic bag being placed over the youths head and the alleged beating, since he was not in receipt of such information. He said, however that Inspector Singh is targeted because he solves numerous crimes.

“What I know from looking at our records, many of those cases that were being disposed of, many of the victims after being disposed of.

This is predominantly an area where you have break and enter and larceny and simple larcenies, where, the victims after being given back their properties they have a soft heart and say ‘I have back my stuff’, and they go and tell the Magistrate ‘we don’t want to proceed anymore’, because they have back their articles. It has nothing to do with the absence of evidence but the decision taken by the victims,” Brutus contended.

 

Drug trafficking

He added, “When it comes to drug trafficking, I know we’ve made quite a number of cases in this Division, quite recently… persons being remanded for possession, the very last case is 426 grammes right at Retrieve. Why would Inspector Singh be a target? It’s because that is his area. Crime is Inspector Singh’s area so he has to be in the forefront in the tackle against crime. We don’t want a community that is plagued with crime. We need to see this community crime free so that citizens can be free…”

 

Meanwhile, Regional Chairman Renis Morian said numerous complaints of brutality came in from residents against Inspector Singh and called for an investigation.

He said Police brutality should not be encouraged since a region of peace should be promoted. He said he is prepared to stand up on behalf of residents. Morian said there are countless reports that the Police Commander is involved, noting that he may be aware of the incidents if not involved. The Regional Chairman said the issues are hampering with the region’s development.

Kaieteur and Chronicle not even reporting these stories anymore.

Gunmen terrorise, rob Blairmont family

Pressure under the afc/apnu got people chopping up their own grandchildren.

Grandfather chops 10-month-old to the head

Cops nab suspect in C’tyne businessman’s murder

Detectives at Berbice may be on the verge of solving the murder of
Corentyne businessman Patrick Mohabir, who was shot dead on January 6 at his Lot 9 Belvedere, Public Road Corentyne, Berbice home.
Police officials have confirmed that they have detained a suspect. The individual, who is from the same neighbourhood as the victim, was arrested last Friday.
A file on the case is likely to be sent to the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) today.
Indications are that investigators do not believe that Mohabir was the victim of a robbery.
It is alleged that on the night of January 6, two masked men, armed with a ‘long gun’ and a cutlass, and dressed in dark long sleeved clothing, entered the home of the businessman.

The slain man’s store

Patrick Mohabir

Mohabir, a father of six operates the popular grocery store, Shabina and Sons, on the premises.
At the time Mohabir, his wife, Shabina Ahmad, and four of his children were at home.
The woman had told investigators that she and her husband were in their room when her husband heard some strange sounds outside. She said that they thought it was the children and he asked her to investigate.  She said that upon venturing out of the room she was confronted by the two masked bandits.
She immediately begged them not to harm the family and even offered them money.
She said that her husband then came outside was shot in the left thigh during a scuffle with one of the intruders. He was also chopped.
The bandits reportedly then returned to the wounded businessman’s wife, who allegedly managed to “scramble” the mask of one of the intruders.
The invaders then fled, taking two cell phones and a pair of shoes.
Mohabir was rushed hospital where he succumbed.
The woman had stated that the men did not appear to be robbers.
There were no signs of forced entry to the house.

Guyana continues to be a dangerous place even for teens.

14-Y-0 shot in Charlestown

February 15, 2016

Beware those of you who are involved in property dispute in Guyana. Your own relatives will be hiring hitman when court case don't go their way.

Rash of property dispute killings worries Crime Chief

The son of a wealthy rice farmer pays a poverty-stricken youth a miserly sum to kill a sibling who got the larger share of their father’s wealth.
A wife recruits an amateur hit man to bump off her husband over their assets.
An elderly woman is gunned down for a City property.
A businesswoman is riddled outside her home, about a year after a botched plot to execute her husband.
A drug addict is reportedly offered a paltry sum to set fire to a building with its sleeping occupants.
These are examples of true cases that police say show a worrying trend of people hiring individuals to get rid of associates, and even spouses, to get their hands on disputed assets. What is also worrying to the police is the fact that some of these murders are staged to appear as being the work of bandits.
This is happening at a time when the cops are taking flack over the worrisome spate of violent robberies.
“It ( the increase in property dispute  murders) is something we are very concerned about,” Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum acknowledged last week.
“It is something we will have to start monitoring. Whenever we have certain murders, we will have to look to see if they are linked to property disputes.”

‘CAIN AND ABEL’ SAGA
One of the most heinous cases, reminiscent of the biblical Cain and Abel narrative,  occurred 29 years ago.
On March 19, 1987, 27-year-old Abdool Kaleem Yassin was found shot dead at his Riverstown, Essequibo home.
From all appearances, the young man, who came from a wealthy business family, was the victim of a violent robbery.
His elder brother, 32-year-old Abdool Saleem Yassin, was so enraged that he pleaded with the police to keep his firearm, since he feared that he would shoot the killer if the suspect was  apprehended.
But then police were tipped off that Abdool Saleem Yassin had promised a youth, Noel Thomas, seven hundred dollars to murder the  younger brother.

Pamela Kendall

Charged for his wife’s murder: Deochand Sookchand

Patricia Senasie

Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris

The motive? The siblings’ father had bequeathed a larger portion of his wealth to the younger son. The jealous older brother Abdool Yaseen figured that this wealth would become his if his younger brother was eliminated.
Noel Thomas, the poverty-stricken man he hired, had allegedly done the job after being paid a hundred dollars. But the plot came to light after Kaleem refused to pay the rest of the money.
Noel Thomas began to talk.
Detectives arrested Yassin and his alleged assassin Thomas, and, under interrogation, both men eventually confessed. Saleem Yassin, whose greed caused his downfall, died of tuberculosis in the Georgetown Prisons some years ago. His alleged hit-man, who the other inmates nicknamed ‘hundred ’ because of the hundred dollar ‘advance’ he allegedly took to kill the younger Yassin, still languishes on death row. He’s presently appealing to be pardoned.

KILLING GRANDMA FOR HER LAND
One of the evening of June 20, 2011, two men went up the front steps of the Lot 42 Robb Street home of 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris.
They asked to see her, and when she came to the door, the men shot her dead before escaping in a waiting car.
Almost immediately, information surfaced that the execution was linked to a dispute over the old woman’s property. The gunmen were reportedly paid $400,000 each to end the woman’s life.
Orin Hinds, called ‘Red Man,’ of Burnham Boulevard, Mocha, East Bank Demerara; Kevin October called, ‘Troy,’ of Second Street, Agricola, East Bank Demerara; Cleon Hinds, and Roy Jacobs called ‘Chippie’ or ‘Black Boy’ of Evans Street, Charlestown, were arrested and charged for her murder.

Charged with killing her husband: Beverly Persaud

Nathan Persaud

Alleged hit man: Oswald Junior Yaw

Cleon Hinds, one of the accused, revealed in a caution statement that an individual named ‘Roy’ informed him that “a big man, pay them big money fuh throw down a big lady next to Trans (Traspacific Motor Spares).”
Hinds stated that he later learnt that the ‘big man’ had an ongoing dispute with Mrs. Fiedtkou-Parris , over the land she occupied.
According to the statement, Hinds told the police that prior to the shooting, he had borrowed a gun to kill the old woman but his brother eventually went on the “wuk”.
He subsequently learnt that the old woman was dead. A few days later, the accused said he received $80,000 from Roy to share between himself and his brother.
“A real sorry for the lady boss man. Me ain’t even know how me get caught up in this thing,” Hinds said in his statement.
On , 2015, wails echoed through the High Court after Justice Justice Navindra Singh imposed a combined sentence of 324 years on the four accused. This amounted to 10 years for premeditation, another 10 years because the murder was for pay and five years for the use of a firearm. Four years were deducted for the time the men served in prison pending trial, bringing the judgment to 81 years each.
They must serve at least 45 years in jail before they are eligible for parole.
But a pastor of the church Mrs. Fiedtkou-Parris once attended made the telling point that the intellectual author of the crime is still at large.

THE AUTO DEALER’S WIFE
On January 12, at 129 Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara, 43-year-old Patricia Senasie stepped out a vehicle to open the gate so her daughter could drive into the businesswoman’s  yard at 129 Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara.
It was then that gunmen, clad in dark clothing riddled her with bullets before escaping in another vehicle.
A month later, police arrested and charged Richard Stanton, of Princes Street, Lodge for the murder, after the victim’s daughter, positively identified him as one of the gunmen.

Feresa Rozario, 12

Theresa Rozario, 15

Arson murder accused Ganga Kishna (left) and Avishkar Kissoon

The killing had occurred almost a year after the slain woman’s husband, Deokaran Sanasie, owner of Ram’s Auto Sales, survived a similar attempt on his life.
On February 14, 2014, the 59-year-old businessman, known as ‘Ram’, was sitting outside his hardware store in Light and Fourth Streets, Alberttown, when a man who was on a CG motorcycle shot him three times.
He survived the attack and later identified individuals whom he claimed had paid the gunmen $6M to kill him. The attempt was said to have stemmed from a property dispute.

MURDER BY FIRE
At around 2.00 a.m. on November 16, 2014, someone set fire to an old, three-storey building at Robb and King Streets. At the time, 63-year-old Hilrod Thomas, and his two daughters, Theresa Rozario, 15, and 12-year-old  Feresa Rozario, were inside.
The two girls were trapped inside. A badly burned Hilrod Thomas managed to jump through a window. He died shortly after from his injuries.
The building in which the girls perished was at the centre of a bitter and protracted dispute involving Hilbert Thomas and others, who were all claiming ownership, following the owner’s death in 2001. Some individuals in the dispute accused one another of causing the tragic fire.
But just over a year after the deadly arson attack, police arrested and charged Ganga Kishna, 72, a businessman of Lot 11 North Road, Bourda and his employee Avishkar Kissoon, 24, of Lot 1 Sherriff Street, on a joint charge of murder.
Prior to that, police had questioned and even detained Kishna numerous times during their investigations.
The charges came shortly after a drug addict reportedly confessed to police that he was offered money to set fire to the disputed Robb and King Streets building in November 2014.
Police investigators were told that a city businessman, who has claimed ownership of the property, had paid the ‘junkie’ to set the building on fire.

HAMMERED TO DEATH AT HERSTELLING
On the morning of September 10, 2015, Nathan Persaud, a 42-year-old block maker, was found dead in the living room of his Lot 66 Herstelling home.
His body bore a stab wound to his chest and the back of his head was bashed in. Police recovered a hammer, two knives and a piece of rock, all of which had blood stains from the crime scene.
Some residents had reportedly seen a strange man leaving the slain man’s yard.
About a month later, police detained Oswald Junior Yaw, also known as Leow, in connection with the blockmaker’s death.
Particulars of the newly instituted charge alleged that on September 10, at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, they murdered Nathan Persaud in pursuant of an agreement. As part of the agreement, Beverly Persaud promised Yaw money, as inducement for him to consider causing the death of Nathan Persaud.
It is alleged that he was contracted and promised $1.7M to kill Persaud. Police also arrested the slain man’s estranged wife, Beverly Persaud in connection with his murder, which was said to have stemmed from a dispute the couple had over their assets.
On October 14, Beverly Persaud and Oswald Junior Yaw, were remanded for the block maker’s murder.
The charge alleged that the two murdered Nathan Persaud, and that Beverly Persaud had promised Yaw money, as inducement for him to consider causing Persaud’s death.

KILLING A WIFE, STAGING A ROBBERY
On August 20, 2015, Pamela Kendall, a 56-year-old cash crop farmer, collapsed in her brother’s yard at number 45 Village, Corentyne, with a bullet wound to her face. She died shortly after.
Initial reports were that Mrs. Kendall was shot by a gunman who had forced his way into the victim’s home during a power outage.
Her reputed husband, 51-year-old Deochand Sookchand was reportedly in the bathroom when the ‘gunman’ entered via the back door, shot Kendall, ran up an inner stairway, then fled empty handed with the ‘accomplice.’
Residents who knew the victim had blocked a roadway and burned tyres while expressing outrage at the deadly ‘home invasion’ and other violent crimes in the community.
Sookchand, a Good Hope Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), employee, was subsequently charged with Kendall’s murder.
At present, police are probing at least one other suspicious ‘home invasion murder’ that they believe may be linked to a dispute.

Armed gunmen rob Corentyne family

PPP/C activist allegedly beaten in police custody, taken to hospital

Man pardoned by the President jailed again for 18 months

Joshua Joseph and Kestor McPhoy

… after charged with breaking and entering, robbery under arms

 

BY KIZZY COLEMAN

 

Twenty-year-old Joshua Joseph, one of the youths granted a pardon by President David Granger, was on Wednesday back in court, charged with escaping from Police custody, breaking and entering and robbery under arms.

It is alleged that Joseph while being a prisoner at the Brickdam Police Station on a charge of robbery, he escaped from Police custody.

Police Prosecutor Deniro Jones told the court that Joseph was in Police custody and was being escorted by a Police Constable to the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts when he started to behave in a disorderly manner.

He added that he shoved and held on to the said Constable and a struggle ensued, after which he managed to release himself from handcuffs and made good him escape.

He was later arrested on February 15 in the Stabroek area.

Joseph explained to the court that he was clad in old clothes and requested better clothing, a request which was denied. He added that the Police Constable tried to push him into the Police van and he resisted and a scuffle ensued. He further added that he fell during the scuffle and his handcuff opened which he saw as an opportunity to escape.

Prosecutor Jones told the court that Joseph was one of the persons who had been pardoned by President Granger, but he could not say what the offence was that he had been incarcerated for.

Joseph pleaded not guilty to an additional charge which alleged that on January 19, at High Street, Georgetown, he broke and entered the dwelling house of Osa Omaree and stole one Sharp 21-inch television valued $35,000, one laptop valued $50,000, one gold chain valued $30,000 and one gold earring valued $8000; a total value of $123,000 and the property of Osa Omaree.

Also it is alleged that Joseph, while in the company of 21-year-old Kestor McPhoy on February 13, at Stabroek, he robbed Felicia Walton of her gold chain valued $60,000.

Both men pleaded not guilty to the charge and were remanded to prison. The matter will return to court on March 1.

President Granger after stepping into office in May of 2015 announced that he would be granting presidential pardons to ‘petty’ criminals. He stated that it was his intention to pardon convicts annually who were serving short sentences for minor or non-violent related offences during his time in office.

The President further explained that when these persons are released, they will attend rehabilitative programmes with the aim of developing their skills so they can be reintegrated into society.

Thus far, some 60 youths who were incarcerated have been released.

In September 2015, a 49-year-old woman of Kingley Village, Berbice, was raped by a 21-year-old man, who is allegedly another prisoner granted a presidential pardon. This was not confirmed as the Guyana Police Force and Prison Service has refused to disclose information as to the young man’s identity.

Contractor shot during early morning robbery

A contractor was shot to the upper right thigh early yesterday by one of three armed bandits during

A bullet recovered from the scene.

an early morning robbery at McDoom, East Bank Demerara.
This incident occurred a little after 09:00 hrs at a construction site at Lot 31 Middle Street, McDoom where about seven construction workers were carrying out their daily task.
The contractor, Odinie Jordan, called “Coolie”, had visited the site to pay his workers when the masked men stormed the work site and escaped with the payroll and two phones after shooting him. The victim was taken to a private hospital.
When this newspaper visited the scene yesterday, police were taking statements from the workers, who all looked traumatized.
One worker, Yassakar Williams, said that when he arrived at work early yesterday, his employer instructed them to clean the building.
“I was in the back room cleaning up and the boss call me to come to the front and he was saying that we have to run some wires in the ceiling. When he done talking, I see a man come upstairs with a cutlass and he come straight to me,” a devastated Williams recalled.
He said that at one point he thought that one of the women in the village had complained to their partners that he was “troubling” them.
“I thought this man coming to chop me up because I does trouble them girls and I thought somebody talk on me,” he explained.
He further revealed that he stood there without saying anything as the partially masked man walked towards him.
“He snatch me and say don’t move and the boss was standing right next to me. (The boss) tell the man that he can’t do me anything just like that and then the man (bandit) call a next person from downstairs and the person come and he tell him to shoot this one,” Williams said.
He added that he thought it was him the gunman was going to shoot but it was actually his employer.
According to Williams, after Jordan was shot, one of the armed men instructed him to go downstairs and lie on the floor with the others.
“When I come downstairs and lie down, I see two more workers and I ask them if it is robbery and they say yes,” he said.
Meanwhile, two young workers who were working at the side of the house said that just as they were about to enter through the back door, they spot one of the armed bandits and ran for their lives.
The two scaled the back fence and hid in a neighbouring yard. “When we jumped the fence, one of the neighbours see we and she come out on the verandah and start quarreling,” the boys said.
Scared for their lives, they claimed that they were worried that the armed men would jump the fence and kill them after hearing the neighbour.
Investigations are ongoing.

Bandit shot in gun fight with cops

Three men are in police custody after they were captured following a robbery committed on the home of a Neighbourhood Policewoman. The men traded gunshots with a party of police who had responded to the robbery report.

The injured David Williams called Dog Face

According to information, the police received a call about 23:07 hrs on Sunday informing about screams coming from the house of Nazmoon Higgins, a Neighbourhood Police officer, at Adelphi Village, East Canje, Berbice.
Ranks from the Reliance Police Station responded promptly and upon arriving on the scene they cordoned off the house. A minute later Higgins was seen running towards the fence.
He was promptly arrested.
The police then saw some men in dark clothing in the vicinity of the house and they challenged them, resulting in several minutes of trading gunshots. During the shooting, however, the men managed to make good their escape with $350,000, two gold bands, one diamond ring, a gold band and two cell phones.
The woman told investigators that she was tied up and badly beaten by the men and she was subsequently rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where she was treated.
Higgins identified the bandit who was first captured as her neighbour, who lives a few houses away, and who was at the bank when the woman did a large withdrawal.
She also identified one of the escaping bandits as a man who did some work on her house recently.
That man was arrested at his home early the following morning.
The police subsequently received a call around 07:00 hrs yesterday that a man was at the hospital with a gunshot wound seeking medical attention.
Upon arrival the police recognized well known character David Williams called “Dog Face” or “Dew Fish” of Angoy’s Avenue. His leg was badly damaged.
When questioned, he told investigators he was robbed whilst coming out of the Berbice River with marijuana. He claimed that he was shot when he put up a fight. The suspect stated that he jumped overboard and managed to swim to shore.
But the police did not buy his story and placed him under guard at the hospital.
Both men are expected to be placed before the court soon, while the police continue the hunt for their accomplices.

Armed bandits rob Bourda Market vendor

Severed love affair ends in murder/suicide

The little community of Kartabu in the Cuyuni River was plunged into shock yesterday

Glenda McCurdy

following a murder suicide involving a young couple.
Police say 22-year-old Terry Alexander shot his 19-year-old girlfriend Glenda McCurdy and then turned the gun on himself. The incident occurred around 15:00 hours.
Police in a statement said that the couple who shared a relationship was engaged in a heated argument during which Alexander pulled out a gun and shot McCurdy.
The woman received a gunshot wound to her chest, while Alexander shot himself in the head.
The two bodies were found on a lonely road about 20 feet from each other.
There are reports that the woman’s mother was also injured when she tried to intervene.
The police received reports of the shooting and deployed ranks to the area, but up to late last night they had not returned to Bartica with the bodies.
While details of the incident are sketchy, Kaieteur News understands that the shooting stemmed from McCurdy severing ties with Alexander and starting a relationship with another man.
There are reports that the two were to be married but the young woman abruptly ended the relationship.
Police say that a .22 pistol was recovered and investigations are continuing.
Meanwhile, police in the interior recovered another illegal weapon, this time at Arangoy also in the Cuyuni.
Police said that on Sunday its ranks recovered an unlicenced .38 revolver with two rounds at Arangoy, Cuyuni.
According to the police a man who was armed with the firearm was involved in an argument with another man during which he pulled it out to confront his rival.
He was, however, disarmed and the firearm handed over to the police.
The man is in police custody and charges will be laid shortly.

Father of five stabbed to death

–   Relative confessed to killing him
A father of five was stabbed to death early yesterday at his Santa Mission, Region Three home by a relative,

Dead: Joseph Jaundoo

who later confessed to murdering him.
The victim has been identified as 45-year-old Joseph Jaundoo. He was stabbed multiple times around 00:45 hrs and it is believed that he died on the spot.
According to information received, Jaundoo and a relative were consuming alcohol at a wake house when an argument started and a fight resulted.
The two men were separated and Jaundoo left for home.
A little while later, Jaundoo was attacked by the man, while he was on the stairs of his home and stabbed about his body. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre.
The suspect, who confessed to the crime, has been arrested.
Kaieteur news understands that the dead man worked with the Arrow Point Resort as a boat captain for the past two years.
He would usually take tourists to the resort from the Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara (EBD) stelling.

Man confesses to killing boss, stealing gold

The saying that a killer always returns to the scene of his crime held true this week, and led to the capture of a mining camp employee who has since confessed to clubbing his boss to death last month and stealing his gold.
On February 2, the skeletal remains of Jaynarine Basdeo, a gold miner of Fort Ordinance, East Canje Berbice was found at Kurubang, Mazaruni.  A length of wood was near the remains.
Police suspected that Basdeo, said to be about 70, was slain in mid-January by his 32-year-old employer, Ramishpan, who was now missing.
On Monday, police arrested a man at Five Mile Junction, Mid-Mazaruni, with some 600 grammes of marijuana in his possession. It was only when they had taken him to a police station that the ranks realised that their prisoner was Ramishpan, the mining camp employee, who was wanted for Basdeo’s murder.
According to the police, the suspect, who is from Berbice, confessed to killing Basdeo. He claimed that he had worked for the miner for about three weeks and that in January, he asked his employer for his money, which amounted to ten pennyweight of gold. He claimed that Basdeo refused to pay him, and struck him on the arm with a length of wood after they quarrelled. The suspect claimed that he managed to disarm Basdeo and struck him twice to the head.
Leaving the murder weapon near the body, the suspect said he then went into the mining camp and removed 12 pennyweight of gold from a bucket under Basdeo’s bed.
The employee then headed to ‘the landing’ and later travelled to Bartica. After that, he returned to his home in Berbice.
On Monday, he decided to return to the interior, and it was then that he was held at Mazaruni.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said that DNA samples have been taken from the remains and from some of the victim’s relatives to confirm identification. 

Two remanded on armed robbery, larceny charges

A twenty year-old Charlestown man was on Monday remanded to prison after being charged with

Roy Williams

three counts of armed robbery, when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Appearing before City Magistrate Judy Latchman was Odinga Haywood of Drysdale Street, Charlestown. It is alleged that he robbed three persons on February 21, while armed with a knife.
Particulars of the first charge stated that he robbed Mohamed Takur of an iPhone and headset valued $127,000 at Lamaha Street, Georgetown. It was further alleged that Haywood robbed Abraham Takur of a Samsung phone valued $70,000 also at Waterloo Street.
And finally, he was accused of robbing Trevor Singh of a Samsung phone valued $60,440 at Lamaha Street.
Haywood pleaded not guilty to the charges.
An attorney, during a bail application for the defendant, told the court that his client has an unblemished criminal record. He said that Haywood is willing to comply with any conditions attached to his bail. The lawyer also stated that his client is not a flight risk and is willing to surrender his passport to the court.
However, Police Prosecutor, Corporal Kerry Bostwick opposed to bail for the defendant. Bostwick highlighted the seriousness and the prevalence of the offence and the fact that an offensive weapon was used in its commission. Jones also informed the court that the defendant admitted to committing the crime.
This matter will be called again on March 10.
Meanwhile, in another case, another man was remanded to prison for allegedly snatching a gold chain from a woman’s neck.
Roy Williams (no address given) is accused of stealing a gold chain valued at $38,000 from Lisa Kishore, on October 3, 2015 at Croal Street, Georgetown. He pleaded not guilty to the charge read to him by Magistrate Judy Latchman and was ordered to return to court on March 11.
Prosecutor Bostwick told the court that the victim positively identified Williams after the attack. He said that on the day in question, the defendant snatched the chain from Kishore’s neck and made good his escape, despite the fact that she gave chase.
In those circumstances he opposed Williams being granted pre-trial liberty.

Sophia brothers shot in drive by

Two young B Field Sophia brothers narrowly escaped death when persons in a white car opened fire on them last night.
Nineteen-year-old Paul Softleigh received a bullet to the left side of his face while his 13-year-old brother Joshua was grazed.
It is not clear which one of the brothers was the prime target but it would seem as if the shooters were gunning for the elder brother.
Kaieteur News understands that around 20:50 hours, the brothers were walking in ‘C’ Field when some men in a white car pulled up and opened fire.
The two brothers managed to evade some of the bullets as the car sped away.
After realizing that Paul was wounded in the face the two made their way to the Georgetown Public Hospital for medical attention.
A Police rank at the hospital learnt about the shooting and subsequently informed colleagues who were on armed patrol.
However since none of the brothers could properly identify the car, the police had no useful information to act on.
Investigations are ongoing.

Hard times under the Granger administration pushing people to kill their own young.

Pregnant woman strangles 7-yr-old son with bed sheet

Police have arrested an eight-month pregnant woman who reportedly admitted to strangling her seven-year- old son with a bed sheet on Sunday night.
The 28-year-old woman was arrested at her La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara home Tuesday night after police received a tip off that the child was murdered.
The child, Emanuel King, was pronounced dead at the West Demerara Hospital on Monday after his mother belatedly took him there.
His mother, Sonia King, had initially told police and other relatives that the child fell and injured himself, but no one really bought her story.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed that the woman was arrested after she could no longer live with the guilt. She confided in her husband that she had strangled the child.
Her husband subsequently informed the police.
Kaieteur News was told that while the child reportedly died on Sunday night, it was not until the following morning that his mother took his body in a taxi to the West Demerara Hospital where he was officially pronounced dead.
But police will have to do additional investigations since there are reports that the child was beaten by other persons in the home the night before he died.
A relative of the dead child had told this newspaper on Monday night that they were suspicious from the time they heard the woman’s explanation of her son’s death.
The relative said that they had received a call around 09:30 hours on Monday telling them of the child’s death.
The relative said that they went to the woman’s house to confirm the news and they even accompanied her to the La Grange Police Station where she reported that the child fell off an abandoned 20 foot container.
But later on Monday, they were contacted by the woman’s neighbour, who told them that he had some information on the child’s death but was reluctant to give it over the telephone.
When they finally met with the neighbour they were told that another close male relative of the child, who lives at the house was seen beating him mercilessly on Sunday night.
The neighbour reportedly claimed that he had to call over to the child’s parents to tell them to stop the beating.
The relative said that they later reported to the police what they had heard. “They tell we they had to wait on the post mortem,” the relative stated.
Police had examined the body and found no marks of violence.
“But even if she did not confess, the post mortem would have shown the cause of death,” a source close to the investigation.
According to a source close to the investigation, the woman confessed that she had beaten the child on many occasions before, since “He was mischievous and own away”.
Police are preparing a file to send to the Director of Public Prosecutions before instituting a murder charge.
“She will definitely be charged with murder,” the source said.

Indians continue to face the brunt of afc/apnu fund raising activities.

Man, 62, gun-butted, wife tortured by armed bandits

Two armed bandits yesterday gun-butted an elderly man and tortured his wife for several minutes before escaping with more than $3M in cash, groceries and other valuables.

Takurgobin Katwaroo showing his injuries.

This occurred around 03:30 hrs at the home of Takurgobin Katwaroo, 62, and his wife, 59-year-old Deowattie, at Lot 96 Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
The couple operates a grocery store at their home and they are the only occupants of the property.
The bandits, according to reports, escaped leaving a screw driver, cutlass, beer and Guinness bottles behind.
There are reports that the armed men entered the two-storey house by jumping over a neighbour’s fence and walking on top a shed at the Katwaroo’s home to climb on to the verandah.
They then cut the grill on the door and entered the house which has four rooms. At the time of the robbery, the husband and wife were sleeping in the last room.
Ravi, the couple’s grandson, said that when the men entered the house, they ransacked the three rooms. Not satisfied with what they got, they started a fire in front of the Katwaroo’s bedroom to get the couple to open their bedroom door.
“When the smoke started to go in the room, my grandfather see and he open the door to go and see what it was but as soon as he opened the door, he get a lash in his head with the gun,” the young Katwaroo said.
The couple was tied and gagged. The bandits informed the 59-year-old woman that if she did not hand over all their valuables, they would shoot her husband dead.
The men escaped only after they were convinced that they had got all of the valuables that were in the house.
Just as they were leaving, they told the couple that it was their next door neighbour, who sent them to the house.
However, Ravi Katwaroo said that the men were informed that his grandparents and their next door neighbours do not speak to each other and tried to set them up. “They also said that they were the ones who rob (his grandparents) last week.”
According to the grandson, last week, thieves entered the grocery shop and escaped with milk, cigarettes, phone cards, money and other items.
They entered the shop by cutting the grill work. No one saw when they entered.
While there is no suspect as yet, the police visited the scene and took fingerprints. Investigations are ongoing.

This must be the mining control that stormy alluded to being done by the afc/apnu.

Body of Brazilian woman found in Konawaruk shallow grave

This is the grand plan of the afc/apnu for reducing crimes. Wait for bandits to kill each other in botched robbery attempts. Meanwhile the defenseless population pay the price of police incompetence.

Bandit shoots accomplice dead during robbery

A robbery at Arif’s Service Station at Onderneeming, West Coast Berbice went badly wrong for the perpetrators last night when a gun-toting bandit shot his partner dead, while trying to shoot the fuel station supervisor.
The bandit, who is still to be identified, was shot in the centre of the forehead by his accomplice, who reportedly fled the scene in a car that belonged to a customer who was there to refuel. The vehicle was recovered at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, some three villages away from the scene of the robbery.
The robber is believed to have escaped with about $100,000.
Police reportedly recovered a knife, a mobile phone, and a pair of sunshades from the slain man. At press time, the hunt was still on for his accomplice. The entire episode is believed to have been recorded by security cameras at the Guyoil outlet.
The drama began at around 19.15 hrs when two men, one armed with a knife and the other with a gun, entered the service station and headed for a female pump attendant.
The attendant told Kaieteur News that one of the men went over to her and ‘calmly’ ordered her to hand over ‘the money.’
She thought the ‘customer’ was joking, when she saw he was pointing a handgun at her, she immediately gave him all the money and fled to a nearby shop.

The dead bandit after he was shot.

The robbers then headed to the service station mart, where the supervisor and other staff were on duty.
Kaieteur News understands that the supervisor was about to resist, and the robber with the knife rushed towards him. It was at that same instant that the bandit with the gun tried to shoot the supervisor, but shot his partner instead.
Leaving his mortally wounded accomplice, the gunman reportedly forced a customer out of a car and drove away. The owner of the car reportedly told police that the bandit would not have gotten far since the vehicle was low on fuel.
The slain bandit’s body lay at the scene for over an hour before being taken to a hospital mortuary.
Back in September 2014, two masked robbers escaped with an undisclosed sum of money, two cellular phones, and two bags containing workers’ dinner after storming the same fuel station.
The incident was captured on the eight surveillance cameras placed around the premises.
An employee had stated that the gunmen, with faces covered with stockings, arrived in a heavily-tinted car just after a rush-hour of customers.
One of the robbers was carrying a gun, while the other had a knife.
One of the robbers saw two bags nearby, which he thought were full of money, and picked them up. The bags actually contained the employees’ dinner and two cell phones.
The station is operated by Ms. Fareha Hanif.
She recalled that the gunmen went straight for the alarm system and destroyed it just after arriving on the premises. The alarm would have been equipped with a switch that the employees could press to activate a siren placed around the gas station.
Hanif added that the gas station was targeted numerous times.

If convicted, he will be let out of jail by Granger as this is considered a petty crime. 

Lindener accused of stealing truck axles granted bail

A Lindener was yesterday released on $50,000 bail after it was alleged he stole items to the value of $300,000.

Albert Nurse

Appearing before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts was 27-year-old Albert Nurse of 683 South Amelia’s Ward, Linden. It is alleged that between February 15 and 16 at Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden, Nurse stole four Bedford truck axles valued at $300,000. The items belong to Bert Cumberbatch.
Nurse pleaded not guilty to the allegation and was ordered to return to court on March 8, at the Linden Magistrate’s Court.
An attorney for the court petitioned for his client to be released on reasonable bail. He told the court that Nurse was arrested Monday morning and taken to the McKenzie Police Station after Cumberbatch reported the matter. The lawyer said that his client has an unblemished criminal record.
Meanwhile, in another case, a Prashad Nagar taxi driver was also ordered to post $50,000 bail after it was alleged he fraudulently converted a laptop computer.
Stephan Birkett, 22, pleaded not guilty to the charge which stated that on January 19, at Prashad Nagar, being solely entrusted with the laptop valued at $150,000 to pawn and return proceeds to Joshua Williams, he converted same to his own use and benefit. The court was told that the computer is the property of Williams.
Prosecutor Jones said that the two parties are known to each other and that the item was not recovered. Jones had no objection to bail and told the court that the defendant has no antecedents.

Armed bandits rob Corentyne women

Armed bicycle thieves rob Corentyne contractor

We see no outcry of ethnic cleansing by the usual suspects, CaribJ, Redux, Mitwah et al. As long as a Black govt is in power, Black men can be killed indiscriminately, Black on Black crime is non a crime apparently.

Dead: Isaiah Marques

Suspected Sophia bandit shot dead -family seeks justice

February 29, 2016

 

A Sophia resident was shot dead in the wee hours of Monday, after he allegedly attempted to rob a security guard and his sister in Campbellville, Georgetown.Twenty–year–old Isaiah Marques was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital; and a police report detailed that at about 2:00 hrs on Monday, Carl Haynes, who is attached to a private security company, was walking along Second Street, Campbellville, accompanied by his sister, Rayon Haynes (26), when they were accosted by a man armed with a firearm.

They resisted his demands, and the armed man pulled the trigger of his firearm, but the weapon jammed. Haynes then reportedly pulled out his service weapon and shot the perpetrator.

Police recovered an unlicensed .32 revolver from the scene, and investigations continue.

CRY FOR JUSTICE
However, the young man’s relatives have given a different version of the incident. They claim he was murdered by the shooter following an old grievance over a woman.

The Guyana Chronicle understands that Marques had lived with relatives at 34 ‘B’ Field, Sophia and at Penny Lane in South Ruimveldt, Georgetown.

Information received indicates that he died from a single gunshot, which entered the upper left section of his forehead and exited at the back of his head.

In an interview with this newspaper, his aunt, Rosaline Marques, explained that her nephew, a father of one, was in the company of a friend when the incident occurred.

“He was shot point blank in front of the night club on Sheriff Street, and the shooter pointed the gun to his friend and others before getting away,” this aunt disclosed.

She claims that her nephew was shot wrongfully, and said the family wants justice from the relevant authorities, since she does not believe the version of the story that was disclosed by the police.

This is UG under the afc/apnu, lawlessness, females are not safe.

UG refutes gang-rape allegations of female student

– says student was “intoxicated”
… but probe continues for UGSS

 

 

By Devina Samaroo

 

The University of Guyana (UG) Administration has said the gang-rape allegations of a female student on campus are completely false.
According to a statement issued by UG Sunday, its investigations concluded that the student was not sexually assaulted however she was “intoxicated.”

UGSS President Joshua

The University of Guyana campus

“Investigations by the University of Guyana Administration have not revealed any basis to conclude or suspect that she was sexually assaulted as alleged in the article carried in the Guyana Chronicle, on Saturday, February 27,” the statement read.
According to the University, the student was taken to the medical centre on Friday afternoon where she was diagnosed by medical personnel as “intoxicated.”

 

Probe continues
Nevertheless, the University of Guyana Student Society (UGSS) is still continuing its own investigation into the matter.
UGSS President Joshua Griffith told Guyana Times he has been receiving similar information but he expressed that the findings are not exactly substantive.
Griffith said he wants to at least speak to the female student to hear her version of the story before making a definitive conclusion on the issue.
“After all, we are here to represent the students,” Griffith said, noting that no stone should be left unturned in this investigation.
Police have confirmed that no official report was made.

Security
Meanwhile, the allegations brought to the fore the burning concern of security on campus. The UGSS president had stressed time and again the need of better security on campus.
“Security has always been a major concern on campus and we, the students, are always the ones who suffer and are affected more at the end,” he stated.
UG in its statement noted that it will continue to place safety and security of its members and visitors to the campus as a high priority.
The university said it is currently pursuing several measures to enhance security and will continue to exercise maximum care and due diligence in providing a secure environment for students and staff on campus.
Allegations
The state newspaper had reported on Saturday that a UG student overhead a group of male students describing in graphic details how they gang-raped the female student. According to the newspaper article, the student said he does not know the names of the male students who allegedly committed the act, however he knows their faces very well.

A slap on the wrist for this bandit as he walks on $250US bail.

Robbery under arms accused on $50,000 bail

Guyanese fingered in drug courier ring gets one year in plea deal

A Guyanese man arrested with over US$35,000 in undeclared cash at JFK Airport, in the US back

Vilton Bourne

in February 2014, has been sentenced to a year and a day on a cocaine conspiracy charge.
The judgment was handed down last month in a New York court against Vilton Bourne.
Bourne, in a deal with US prosecutors, had agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to import cocaine.
For his jail time, Bourne has until June 8th to surrender, as he was on bail at the time of his sentencing last month.
The court has made final the seizure of US$35,577 in cash that had been taken from the Guyanese man when he was arrested in 2014.
Bourne had faced up to nine years for the charges.
On August 18, last, Bourne pleaded guilty, via a plea agreement, to conspiring to import cocaine into the US.
The documents explained that the defendant participated in a cocaine importation conspiracy in which persons imported cocaine from a Guyanese supplier. The cocaine was disguised as various food items. In conversations, the persons involved in the conspiracy would refer to the cocaine as gold.
Bourne was said to be a facilitator of couriers for the conspiracy. He was also involved in smuggling cash to Guyana.

Guyanese arrested, boat seized in large Bajan drug bust

Bajan authorities have arrested a Guyanese man and seized a boat during an anti-narcotics operation Wednesday morning, according to the Barbados Nation.
According to a report in the online news, large quantities of cocaine and cannabis were seized at Carlisle Bay (Browne’s Beach), St Michael by the Drug Squad.
Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police and public relations officer, David Welch, said cocaine weighing 122.9 kilogrammes and valued in the region of $6 million and cannabis weighing 9 4 kilogrammes, valued in the region of $375,000 were seized along with a boat.
He said two males, a Barbadian and a Guyanese, were assisting police with the matter.

Chain-snatcher shot dead while robbing cop

An Albouystown man was shot dead at around 07.30hrs yesterday by a policeman he had allegedly tried to rob.
A police release stated that the policeman was walking along Robb Street when the suspect, Sherwin Monka, attacked him and took away his gold chain.
The rank, the holder of a licenced firearm, shot Monka who succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
The Police Office of Professional Responsibility is conducting investigations into the incident.

Businessman shot while attempting to prevent robbery

Looks like two afc/apnu operatives got off scott free.

Spanish environmentalist robbed, declines prosecution

Two men  accused of robbing a Spanish national escaped the walls of prison after charges against them were dropped by the virtual complainant, when they  appeared yesterday before Magistrate Judy Latchman in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
It is alleged that on March 6, last, on North Road, Georgetown, Clifton Charles and Jamal Edwards, robbed Murielle Tribecke of one hand bag, a pair of sunglasses, one identification card, one passport, one visa card and $47,000 in cash .
The accused were not allowed to plead to the indictable charge.
Tribecke took the stand and told Prosecutor Corporal Kerry Bostwick and Magistrate Judy Latchman that she was robbed that day at 3:50 pm by the accused.
However she said that she does not wish to provide any evidence on the matter that she simply wants her belongings returned so that she can leave for Annai the following day.
The victim resides in Spain and works as an environmentalist. She came to Guyana with other colleagues pertaining to her area of work when the calamity befell her.
Magistrate Latchman ruled that the case was hereby dismissed and the accused were free to leave. Charles and Edwards exited the courtroom with satisfied grins on their faces 

Those who doubt that Guyana is a dangerous place should think again.

Cuban national found dead

…with wound on neck

The police are conducting investigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of Cuban National Joel Perez Laffita, 47, whose body was found on the roadway at Providence on the East Bank of Demerara with a wound to the neck.
Police sources say that the mysterious discovery of Laffita’s body was made around 01:30 hours yesterday.
Kaieteur News understands that the Cuban is an Engineer who arrived in Guyana yesterday on a vessel that is moored at a wharf at Providence.
Investigators are puzzled since they have ruled out robbery. They say that cash and other belongings were recovered from Laffita’s body.
Divisional Commander Clifton Hicken told this newspaper that his detectives are working feverishly to solve the case. He said that they were trying to access footage from surveillance cameras that might be in the area.
Hicken said that detectives are questioning persons on the vessel that Laffita reportedly arrived on.
According to a source, it is assumed that Laffita was coming from a nearby hotel when he was attacked.
“It look like he run a good distance before he collapsed,” a source told this newspaper.
Kaieteur News understands that a woman has told detectives that she saw a man on a bicycle stopped not far from where the Cuban’s body was found. The man threw the bicycle to the ground and minutes later there was a loud explosion that sounded like a gunshot. Seconds after the man was seen riding away.
The source said that a motorcyclist, who saw Laffita’s motionless body, rode to the Providence Police Station and informed the police.

Corentyne businessman shot in attempted robbery

Hill Foot farmer found murdered at home

March 15, 2016

FARMER Anthony Breedy was yesterday found dead in the lower flat of his Lot 76-78 Hill Foot, Soesdyke/Linden Highway home on the East Bank of Demerara at approximately 11:00 hrs. His body was found lying face down, with his hands and feet bound.The Guyana Police Force said in a statement that the body of the 60-year-old farmer was discovered with multiple injuries to his head. The upper flat of his two-storey home was ransacked, the investigators also disclosed.

The scene of the crime

Breedy was the lone occupant of the house at the time of the incident. However, the gruesome discovery was made by a friend, who had gone to the Hill Foot residence to check-up on him. He was last seen by residents on Saturday night.

Breedy had previously worked as an Agriculture Officer in Montserrat. He reportedly returned to Guyana last year, and had since spent most of his time farming in the vicinity of the Soesdyke Highway.

According to a News Room report, evidence seems to suggest that there was a struggle, as broken blocks and splashes of blood were visible at the scene of the crime. Notably, pieces of wood that may have been used to bludgeon the victim were also visible in the lower flat of the house.

Residents have told the Online news agency that they did not hear any strange sound coming from the man’s house from the time he was last seen to the time of the discovery. Assistant Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken, in an interview with News Room, said the house was not ransacked to any extent, which suggests that the man might have been murdered by someone he had known. He said investigators are presently trying to ascertain the motive for the crime.

It was also pointed out that the farmer’s SUV was missing at the time of the discovery.

 

Bandits terrorise Corentyne family

Police in Berbice have arrested two men and recovered some of the items that were stolen during a robbery at Port Mourant on Saturday.

The fence the two armed bandits cut to gain entry to the yard

The items, which were found Sunday morning in a house on the Corentyne, include two laptops and a cellular phone. The discovery was made about 10:00h after two armed men went to a house at Ankerville, Port Mourant, and robbed a family of cash, jewellery and other valuables.
Reports are that about 19:45h on Saturday, two men, armed with firearms, cut through a back fence and robbed the family of a retired security officer and a retired headteacher.
Harnauth Jaiprashad, 65; his wife, Parmini, 62; their two children, two grandchildren and son-in-law had just returned from a fast food restaurant and were preparing to have dinner when the robbers entered.
One of the couple’s children, who is a teacher, Roshmine, said the men entered the yard from the back and walked around the side of the house. She said neither of them was wearing a mask.
“They say you all don’t, you all don’t holler. One had a shotgun and one had a revolver; the one with the revolver also had a cutlass.”
Jaiprashad said they were taken into the house and the door closed behind them.
“They tell us that they didn’t come to stay long and that they didn’t come to hurt anybody; they just come for the gold and the money. They put everybody to lie down and told me to give them the gold and all the money, so I give them the gold and the money.”
The mother of two said she handed over her parents’ National Insurance Scheme (NIS) pension.
“The one with the shotgun, he remained in the room and he continued to search the room. He tell me, ‘go and lie down, don’t look me in my face.’ When he came out, they ask whose car parked out there and I told them, ‘is my husband’.”
Even though Jaiprashad’s husband was lying on the floor near her, she told the bandits that he had gone out and taken the car key with him. “Then they ask if we have a haversack and I said no. They said that they wanted a bag to put the things in, so they took my working bag and put all the things that they collected from the house, including the money and gold inside.”
Before leaving, the men picked up three cellular phones, two laptops and other items, and on their way out, cut the phone line.
“But they cut the wrong line: they cut the extension line, not the main line. In haste, they say you all don’t call anybody and they closed the door,” Jaiprashad added.
The entire ordeal lasted about 10 minutes. Jaiprashad said contact was soon made with the Whim Police, who arrived about five minutes after the call was made.
According to a Police source, the investigation began and based on intelligence gathered, they were able to recover some of the articles.
Police are continuing the investigation.

25 homicides recorded in two months

– nine slain by bandits
Bandits killed almost as many people as those that died in disorderly murders during the first two months

Xiu Di Yang

of the year.
Police statistics released yesterday showed that 25 murders were recorded at the end of February last, as was the case in February 2015, when there were also 25 murders.
Nine of February’s murders were committed during robberies, five were domestic related, 10 were of the disorderly type, and one is so far undetermined.
Five murders have been recorded so far for March 2016. This includes the murder of a pensioner, whose bound body was discovered yesterday on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
This year’s robbery/murder victims include 49-year-old businesswoman Xiu Di Yang, who was shot dead by bandits who had invaded the family’s No. 57 Village, Corentyne  Restaurant; businessman Patrick Mohabir, 42, chopped to death by intruders at his Corentyne, Berbice home; 49-year-old Anita Baichan, who burned to death in her home after bandits tied her up and set the building alight at Plantation Hope, West Coast Berbice, and Doodnauth Rajkumar and Dianne Chammanlall, who were chopped to death in their Lot 93 ‘A’ Bush Lot, Middle Dam, West Coast Berbice, home allegedly by a gang of drug-addicted young bandits.
Victims of domestic killings include: Bibi Zabida Khan, 41, who was stabbed and strangled in a trench at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo; Hafeeza Rohoman, 41, whose body was found in a canal at Helena, Mahaica,

Patrick Mohabir

East Coast Demerara, and Indrawattie Somwar, 39, hacked to death at her Corriverton, Berbice residence.
But the Force also recorded a 12 percent decrease in serious crimes at the end of Februrary last, in comparison to the same period in 2015.
At the end of last month, robbery under-arms decreased by four percent in comparison to the same period in 2015. The statistics indicate a nine percent drop in the number of armed robberies involving the use of firearms; while there was a four percent rise in relation to the number of armed robberies where instruments other than firearms were used by the perpetrators.
Police also recorded a 13 percent decrease in the number of reports of rape, with 48 reports at the end of February this year compared to 55 for the same period last year.
Break and enter and larceny and burglary reports decreased by 11 percent, while there was a 17 percent reduction in break and enter and larceny reports.
Also at the end of February last, police recovered 10 illegal firearms, including five pistols, four revolvers and a shotgun.
In relation to domestic violence, at the end of February, 473 reports were made from which 311 cases resulted.
During February this year, a number of persons have been charged for serious crimes.
These include Ron Morris of Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara, for trafficking in narcotics; Mark Calvan

Bibi Zabida Khan

of Pike Street, North Sophia, Leyland Archer of Pattensen, East Coast Demerara, and Troy Thomas of Patentia, West Bank Demerara for the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition; Ganga Kishna of North Road, Bourda, and Aviskar Bissoon of Enachu and Sheriff Streets, Georgetown, for murder; Saiad Khan of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, Hale Forrester of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, Affiba Yankana of Hadfield Street, Georgetown, Shun De Santos of East La Penitence, Georgetown, Joshua Joseph of West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, Kester McPhoy of Independence Boulevard, Georgetown, and Christopher Niles of Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, for separate incidents of robbery under-arms; and Colin Bailey of Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, Sonia King of Parafaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, and Trudy Samuels of Santa Mission, Upper Demerara River for separate incidents of murder.
In relation to traffic, 17 road fatalities from 17 accidents have been recorded at the end of February 2016, in comparison to 19 fatalities from 12 accidents for the same period in 2015. This is a decrease of 11 percent.
One child has died as a result of a traffic accident at the end of February this year, compared to seven for the same period last year.
Five pedestrians, three pedal cyclists, three motor cyclists, four drivers, a passenger in a motor vehicle and a pillion rider perished at the end of February.
Speeding was the cause of 10 of the 17 fatal accidents which occurred last month.  Up to last Sunday, six more road users lost their lives.
Traffic ranks have made 11,783 cases at the end of February 2016. Of this total 4,080 were for speeding, 442 for driving under the influence of alcohol, 130 for using cell phones while driving and 379 for failing to wear seat belts.  

this was a quick turnaround by the GPF, however it brings no comfort to the family who lost their loved one.

Ex-con, two others killed Soesdyke remigrant

– bank card, vehicle recovered

A 28-year-old ex-convict and two others killed 60-year-old remigrant Anthony Breedy, whose bound body was found in his Hill Foot, Soesdyke home on Monday.

Dead: Anthony Breedy

The killers then made off with Breedy’s Sport
Utility Vehicle (SUV) and other valuables.
But the ex-convict’s luck ran out yesterday, when police arrested him on the East Coast of Demerara, shortly after he had stashed the stolen vehicle.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum revealed that the suspect was still carrying Mr. Breedy’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card when he was held.
The Crime Chief also said that police recovered the victim’s vehicle at Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara.
The detained man is Paul Goriah, of Timehri Squatting Area. He was recently released from prison following a break and enter and larceny and narcotics conviction. His alleged accomplices, who are still at large, are also from the same Timehri squatting community.
Blanhum said that the suspect is cooperating with investigators, while police continue to hunt for the other suspects.
The body of the 60-year-old agriculturist was found at around 11:00 hours on Monday in the lower flat of his two-storey house. His limbs were bound and he bore injuries to his head and his home was ransacked.
Kaieteur News understands that scratches on the detained ex-convict indicate that the victim put up a desperate fight for his life. At press time, police were planning to have the injuries examined by a physician.
From information investigators have gathered, the intruders killed Mr. Breedy last Saturday night. Police said that there was no sign of forced entry to the premises.
They then took the murdered man’s SUV and other valuables to an area at South Ruimveldt, where they split up the loot. The ex-convict, Paul Goriah, reportedly told his accomplices that he would sell the vehicle at Berbice. Unknown to his accomplices, he also stashed the dead man’s ATM card.
But the plan reportedly unraveled yesterday after the ex-convict stashed the stolen vehicle.
He reportedly then hired a taxi to take him out of the area. However, an argument reportedly broke out between the suspect and the taxi driver when he was unable to pay the fare.
The suspect reportedly smashed the rear windscreen of the driver’s car.
Police then arrested the suspect and found Mr. Breedy’s bank card on his person.
The slain man’s sister, Yvette Breedy, had told Kaieteur News that she last spoke to him on Saturday.
She said that she received a call on Monday from someone who told her that there was a robbery at her brother’s house and they should check on him. Anthony Breedy lived alone.
“Somebody went to see him and saw the house open. When they called they got no response. When they pushed the door and went in, they saw him lying on the floor tied up,” Yvette Breedy told this newspaper.
The woman said she is unaware that her brother had any problems with anyone.
Anthony Breedy was an agriculturist who returned to Guyana a year ago from Montserrat. He was reportedly farming on the plot of land he acquired in the Linden/Soesdyke Highway