Teen shot at in Angoy’s Avenue carjacking

Dec 01, 2016 News 0 Comments

Kalicharan Sookchan

Police are on the hunt for several persons who allegedly carried out a carjacking around 20:00hrs on Tuesday in the vicinity of Angoy’s Avenue.

The car bearing license plate number PTT 6559, a white Toyota Fielder wagon, was stolen from Kalicharan Sookchan, also known as ‘Amit’, 17, of 98 Sheet Anchor Village.

This publication was told by the young man that he dropped off the owner of the vehicle Shawn Nandlall, in the vicinity of Pitt Street, New Amsterdam and proceeded to drive towards New Street, New Amsterdam, when he heard someone calling his name.

He stopped to talk with the person, a male individual, and when asked whether he was at the time working private hire with the vehicle, Sookchan responded in the negative. He however picked up the man, who told him that he had to collect a girl in Angoy’s Avenue area.

“The man say he got to go and pick up two girls in the scheme,” Sookchan stated. He said that he took the man to his destination and was asked to wait.

“Me had to wait for five minutes, then two other man with he come in and say ‘yeah, leh we go to main road, turn’, when I turn back one ah dem put one gun to me another one start choke me and tell me get out the car, and one start tape up me hand and me mouth”.

According to Sookchan, the man whom he picked up then drove the car to a bushy area not far from where they were.

“Dem get me in a bush and me start holla and them fire a shot at me”, he said.

Sookchan stated that the men began to question him. “Dem ask me where me from and who me ah live wid and me tell dem lie because me nah trust them”.

The men then took the car, reportedly to a nearby gas station, while one remained guarding the teen in the bushy area.

He said he knew the men went for gas, because they had to call the one perpetrator that was with him to inquire how to open the gas tank. “Dem call dat one to ask me how fuh open de gas tank because the cable nah work, it seize”. He said he refused to tell them and the man with him fired another shot, after which he then told them how to open the tank.

Sookchan said the man waited with him in the bushes for over three hours then decided to leave. “He seh he fed up wait and get passion and gone”.

The teen managed to free himself and went for help.

Dog food vendor critical after beating from restaurant owner

Dec 01, 2016 News 0 Comments

The incident reportedly occurred outside this restaurant

Investigations are continuing into the beating of an 18-year-old vendor by a 33-year-old Chinese national over the selling of dog food. The victim is in a critical condition.

The incident occurred on Tuesday around 18:45 hrs in the vicinity of the Lim Kang Restaurant of Main and Chapel Streets, New Amsterdam, Berbice.

According to information, the victim Osarin Stuart of Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme, East Canje, Berbice, began selling dog food not too far from the restaurant.

This move infuriated the accused Kam Sing called “Lim Kang”, who would also sell dog food apart from other commodities.

The accused reportedly emerged from the restaurant with a baby in his hand and accosted the teenager about him still selling his dog food in proximity to the restaurant.

Kam Sing subsequently returned inside the restaurant where he left the baby.

He came out again and an argument ensued and the victim armed himself with a piece of wood but subsequently dropped it and walked away.

The suspect is said to have then picked up the same piece of wood and dealt the victim several lashes to his head and left leg.

The victim collapsed and was picked up in an unconscious condition and rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he was treated and later transferred to the GPHC for immediate attention.

Thieves burgle Alberttown grocery store, escape with $1.5M, DVR

Dec 02, 2016 News 0 Comments

Proprietor of Dev Grocery and Variety Store on Albert and Sixth Streets, Alberttown, went to his

The door that was broken by the perpetrators.

business place yesterday morning only to find that it had been broken into and more than $1.5M in cash and stocks, missing.
The perpetrators took the businessman’s DVR (Digital Video Recorder) with them, making it difficult for investigators to identify the culprits.
Devindra Gangaram explained that when he went to open his variety store around 07:40 hrs yesterday, he noticed that a few items were scattered on the floor when he opened the shutters on the front door of the store.
Upon investigating, Gangaram found that the back door of his store had been broken while a surveillance camera, pointing in the direction of the back door had been turned upward and a piece of card board had been placed around a bulb that is situated next to the camera.
It is unclear how many men raided the store but investigators said that there might have been more than two persons. The robbery is believed to have occurred some time between midnight Wednesday and Thursday morning.
The businessman said that he left his store some time around 23:00 hrs on Wednesday. “When I come to open, I see things on the floor and the back door open.” No one reported hearing any noise.
Gangaram said that the men escaped with cash, phone cards, milk, cigarette, baby lotion and chocolates among other items.
It was the third time in three years that the businessman’s store had been burglarized. Anyone with information of the robbery can contact Gangaram on 618-3575.

Captured suspect identified in five robberies

Dec 03, 2016 News 0 Comments

Police have detained a 25-year-old man who has been positively identified in at least five recent robberies.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said that the suspect was arrested in Robb Street and has been positively identified as having participated in five robberies which occurred near various wharves.
The suspect and two others were charged in 2011 for carting off $5M from the Regional Democratic Office at Linden.
It was alleged that the robbers used a gas cutting torch to open a canister in which the money was kept after holding a security guard at gunpoint and severely beating him.
They were each released on $500,000 bail.

Suspects arrested shortly after robbery

Dec 03, 2016 News 0 Comments

Quick action by the police has led to the arrest of two suspects, minutes after they committed a robbery at the Meadow Bank wharf at Ruimveldt, Georgetown around 00:45 hrs yesterday.
During the process of arresting the men, one of them sustained gunshot wounds to both legs. He has been identified has 40-year-old Nazeem

(Above) The gun that was recovered from the bandits
(Below) One of the suspects who was apprehended

Benie of Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo.
He is hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Another suspect has escaped.
According to information received, three men, one armed with a handgun stored the Wild Caught Fresh Fish Depot at the Meadow Bank wharf and held the supervisor, Shane Robin at gunpoint. Robin was gun-butted and the men took a camera, DVR, a radio set and other articles.
Kaieteur News understands that a public-spirited citizen witnessed the robbery and called the police, who responded and confronted the men as they were leaving.
During the confrontation, one of the unarmed suspects was shot to both legs and the other with the firearm ran in the depot and concealed himself in the ceiling.
He was however extracted and ranks recovered an unlicensed 9MM pistol with eight live rounds from him.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) in a release said that the third suspect managed to escape and efforts are being made to have him apprehended.
The suspect who is in custody is a 25-year-old resident of Fifth Avenue Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
The son of the Depot’s owner, Kevin Jettoo said that he was informed that bandits broke into the business after midnight.
Jettoo said that it was one of several robberies that the business entity has been subjected to recently.

Brazen bandits shoot, rob man in Finance Ministry compound

Dec 07, 2016 News 0 Comments

… after trailing him from City bank

Two brazen gunmen stormed the Ministry of Finance compound on Main Street, Georgetown

John Brian

around 12:55 hrs yesterday and shot a 29-year-old man, who they had reportedly trailed from a City bank.
The bandits escaped with $3M in cash in a white Toyota Premio, bearing registration number, PSS 4570.
The victim has been identified as John Brian, a contractor. He was shot to the upper left thigh and was receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) up to press time.
According to information received, the robbery took place just after the victim left a bank on Water Street, Georgetown where he made a withdrawal.
In an interview yesterday, the wounded man said that he took out $3M from the bank to make a payment to BK International for Readymix concrete.
“I took a bus so that no one would follow me from the bank. I came out on Lamaha Street and was walking. The road was clear and I see these two people walking behind me fast and I suspect that they going and rob me so I start run,” the injured man said.
He further explained that he ran into the Ministry of Finance compound but the men followed him and opened fire.
“They come in and pick up the haversack with the money and they run out. The security guards (in the Ministry) were scared and they ran away,” Brian said.
The Guyana Police Force in a press release said that ranks retrieved a spent shell from the scene. No arrest has been made as yet.

East R/veldt man shot with arrow, beaten, chopped and left for dead on Issano trial

Dec 10, 2016 News 0 Comments

Police have launched an investigation into an incident which has left a 30-year-old resident of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown nursing serious wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Reports reaching this newspaper indicate that Orin Baptiste, of 343 East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was shot with an arrow, beaten, chopped and left for dead on a trail at 14 Miles Issano, Upper Mazaruni, Region Seven.
The man is said to have ventured into the interior two months ago seeking employment.
While details surrounding the incident remain sketchy, Kaieteur News understands that the injured man was subject to an attack and beating by a group of men.
A source close to the investigation noted that the man suffered injuries to both arms as well as a gash to his left knee cap which was almost severed.
“He seems to have lost a lot of blood because of the multiple chop wounds,” the source explained.
Hours after he was left on the trail, Baptiste, a father of one, was found and airdashed to the city for medical attention.
Up until last evening, Baptiste was a patient of the Emergency Unit of the hospital, awaiting surgery.

Bandits rob cops at crime scene

Dec 10, 2016 News 0 Comments

It doesn’t get more embarrassing than this.
Two police ranks became robbery victims at around 11:55 hrs yesterday, while investigating a crime in the city.
A police release stated that the unarmed cops were preparing to retrieve video footage at a Georgetown business location, with respect to an ongoing investigation of a recent crime, when two men attacked the ranks and the proprietor.
The robbers relieved their victims of valuables which included cell phones and a wallet, before escaping on a motorcycle.
Shortly after, acting on information, ranks apprehended a male suspect on Middle Dam, East La Penitence, with a haversack containing two cell phones belonging to the proprietor, a bank card, an identification card and a wallet belonging to one of the ranks.
The other robber is still at large.

Four armed men rob Eccles fishery

Dec 11, 2016 News 0 Comments

A number of employees of International Fisheries Limited located in Eccles Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara, were left traumatized after four armed men robbed them around 14:00hrs yesterday at the fish plant.

The building in which the robbery occurred.

According to one employee who asked to remain anonymous, he and a colleague left the main fish plant to have lunch nearby another building in the same compound. During that time his workmate was using two cellular phones. After eating, the two men returned to the fish plant.
When they were about to enter the building the four men pounced on them, forcing them into the main section of the building. The man said that one of the men immediately asked his colleague for the two mobile phones he was just using.
“They seh pass de phone pass de phone. He seh he aint got no phone. Then de man seh a see you with two phone just now.”
Based on this, the employees believe that the men were in the yard for some time observing them. Giving this theory more credibility was the fact that the men were covered in dried mud. Further, the section from whence the men apparently emerged is covered in thick bush.
When the robbers detained about five employees in the plant, they began demanding money, jewellery and cellular phones. According to the same employee, two of the men were armed with guns while the remaining pair had cutlasses.
He said that one of the men asked a female employee, “Whey de bag deh, and she hold on pon de bag and dem pull out de money. And then dem come and search up everybody. Dem search up the girl and cuff she and when dem done, dem tek de cutlass and lash up on de table.”
At that time, a customer visited the complex and was also robbed of her valuables. When they made their escape, the men locked the Security shutter which could only be opened from the outside.
The woman from whom the bandits took the money said that she heard the commotion when the men entered the building but was not sure what was happening. When approaching the front of the complex she saw a signal from one employee but did not understand what it meant.
“Dem a show me sign, but like me nah understand what dem ah tell me so by time me could run back the boy see me turning back.”
She said, too, that while turning back she wondered that if she should hide, and the bandits found nothing to take, they might have taken out their frustration on the other employees and hurt them.
“Meh turn back. When me turn back, he come to me with the cutlass. He knock de cutlass and he said come give me de money. Me seh arite and he go in the bag. He nah find no money in the bag so he knock the cutlass again and me go in me bag. Me had $100,000 wrap up. That was me personal money wah me seh me woulda buy me thing dem for Christmas.”
She said that the entire ordeal did not last more than five minutes. “As dem come suh, dem hurry, hurry fuh de money.”According to the other employees, it’s the fourth time that the business has been robbed.

For those with aspirations to retire in Guyana or have a winter home, think again.

Four masked men on Saturday morning robbed an overseas-based Corentyne, Berbice, pensioner and his domestic worker at his Salton, Corentyne home.
The men gained entry into the two storied house, owned by Veerasammy Narainasami, also called “Fedi”, by placing a bench on two tables to reach the bedroom window on the upper flat.

The 67-year told Guyana Times that he was in his bedroom watching television and at about 12:45h he went to the bathroom and upon returning to his bedroom, he was confronted by the men.
“I spent like about 15 minutes and going back when I open the bedroom door, ah brace up with four men; one with a gun, one with a cutlass and two with nothing. They start to rough me up and asking ‘where is the money, where is the money’. I tell them that all the money I get is in the pants, so one of them go and take out the money and they still asking, ‘where is the rest’, and I tell them that I don’t have more,” the pensioner related.
He said the bandit who was carrying the cutlass started lashing him using the flat side of the blade, demanding that he hand over more money.
The pensioner, who displayed marks on his body including a cut to his head, said all of the men were masked.
He related that the ordeal lasted for about 25 minutes, adding that the men placed a gun to his head and threatened to kill him if he did not give them more money.
The former building maintenance engineer, who arrived in Guyana on December 3, said he tried to explain to the thieves that he is in the habit of borrowing money from friends whenever he is in Guyana and repaying when he returns to New York.
After relieving the pensioner, the bandits then turned their attention to his domestic help, Samantha Williams, who was asleep in another room.
“Dem ask me if I know which side this man does put his money and I tell them that is not my business and I don’t mind his business, then the one with the gun ask me, ‘where is me money’, and ah tell him look on the table and then he look and see the light on the phone under the sheet and the pull it away from me and then he put his hand on my breast and then he go out the room,” the woman related.
She said she was too shaken to get out of bed and locked the bedroom door after they exited her room.
Williams was relieved of a cellular phone worth $4500 and $3000 in cash while Narainasami was relieved of US$300, G$5000, two cellphones and two torch lights.
Police arrived about 30 minutes after the incident and dusted the louvres for fingerprints.
An investigation has been launched. Narainasami, who left Guyana in 1985, has been returning over the last five years to spend the winter period in Guyana. (Andrew Carmichael)

Finally Kaiteur news ketch sense and putting crime back on the front page.

$21M in cash, jewellery taken as…Heavily-armed 15-man gang storms cambio dealer’s home…No police response despite 40-minute ordeal

Dec 13, 2016 News 0 Comments

– Ex-cop among seven detained

By Malisa Playter Harry
A former policeman and six others were in custody last night as detectives attempt to track down a gang of 15 heavily-armed individuals who escaped with some $21M in cash and jewellery, after launching a military-style, pre-dawn attack at the home of a Number 79 Village, Corentyne cambio dealer.
The bandits, who were armed with assault rifles, shotguns and cutlasses, used sledgehammers to smash their way into the Lot 93 Albert Street home of businessman Devendra Churaman, also called “Katak,” shortly after 01:15 hrs yesterday.
Churaman said that the masked men escaped with some $1M in jewellery, but could not say exactly how much money was taken. However, police said the gang made off with $20M in local and foreign currency.
Churaman said that he was told that the gang fled through a nearby track which could take them to canefields in the area.
‘B’ Division Commander Senior Superintendent Errol Watts told Kaieteur News that his ranks have detained seven men, who reside at various areas in Berbice, including Canje and New Amsterdam.
He said that an ex-policeman is among the detainees, most of whom have previous charges for armed robbery.
The suspects have already been swabbed for possible traces of gunpowder residue.
Commander Watts said that the suspects were taken into custody “based on evidence received,” and will also be placed on identification parade.
So far, none of the loot has been recovered.
There are reports that while five gunmen entered Churaman’s home, ten others stood guard in the street, while firing shots to keep neighbours at bay.
Shots were also fired directly into Churaman’s home.
Confirming the extent of the gang’s firepower, Deputy Superintendent Gary McAllister said that 21 live 7.62 x 39 rounds (used in the AK-47 rifle), about eight 7.62 x 39 shells; two twelve-gauge shotgun cartridges, and a warhead were retrieved from the scene.
Churaman and several neighbours said that the gunmen took some 20 minutes to enter the residence, and spent another 20 minutes inside.
However, ranks at the Springlands Police Station allegedly took at least an hour and 15 minutes to arrive, despite receiving a number of phone calls from the victim and neighbours while the attack was in progress.
Churaman told Kaieteur News that he was alone when the men smashed their way into his home.
“Dem man tek sledge hammer and bruk meh steel door and front window and come in.
“About five of dem come in meh house with one set ah big big gun and start fire shots”. Churaman stated that the men took approximately 20 minutes to enter his home, during which time he called a police rank from Georgetown. This rank reportedly made contact with the Springlands Station, but no one came.
Springlands Police Station is reportedly located some two minutes away from Churaman’s residence.
“When they (the gunmen) got in, dem start pull out and tumble up, they had me at gunpoint asking for the cash.”
Churaman related to Kaieteur News that he told the bandits that he hadn’t money at home but this angered one of the men, who rushed up to him with a cutlass.
He revealed that the men used a steel hammer to remove a steel door to his bedroom. They also searched another room in the upper flat, where they located an undisclosed sum of money and about $1M in jewellery.
Churaman stated that throughout the ordeal he was ordered to lay face-down with a gun pointed at his head.
The gang also vandalized surveillance cameras on the premises.
Churaman’s wife and two children were not at home at the time of the robbery.
According to a resident, at around 01:45 hrs, “we just hear like gunshots going off. We didn’t know if it was fire rockets, but when my son peep through the window, he saw four persons trying fuh break open the door and front window (of Churaman’s house), so we immediately called the police.”
He said that seven calls were made to the Springlands Police Station, but the ranks said that no patrol was available.
“This ting tek like about twenty minutes, a lot of gunshots were fired, like about sixty, seventy, I can’t really say, but plenty,”
Another resident told Kaieteur News that “I heard the explosions and talking going on. One ah dem (bandits) askin if “alyuh get everything bai?” but I ain’t hear no response, but then I hear ah next one say “let’s move it.”
That is all I hear, because I didn’t come out.
I stay in me house after I hear the gunshots.”
Commander Watts, who visited the scene, said “we discovered twenty-one live 7.62 by 39 rounds of ammunition and we also retrieved cartridge casings, so it clearly tells us that these men were armed with rifles and shotguns.
“Fortunately, the victim was not shot, but several rounds were fired in the area which caused residents to be alarmed.”
Commander Watts also said that a team from Georgetown will be sent to boost the manpower at the Springlands Station.
Asked about the slow response time by his ranks, the Commander said that “we had ranks on the road, but information was not immediate for us to respond to.
I received a call at my residence at 02:50 hrs, and I can confirm this.”
The commander charged that with the increased manpower to support the police in township of Corriverton “this should reassure the public that we are concerned and we have adequate security measures in place to have a crime-free holiday.”

What are the PNC jackasses in power doing to solve crime? They posting statistics showing drops in crime but the reality on the ground says otherwise. 

Attack at 14 Miles Issano… Victim calls for “notorious” gang to be brought to justice

Dec 13, 2016 News 0 Comments

“Notorious” is the word being used to describe the gang of men who attacked, robbed and left 30-year-old Orin Baptiste for dead along the trail at 14 Miles Issano.

The injured Orin Baptiste

Last Wednesday, Baptiste of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was shot with an arrow, beaten, chopped and left for dead on the trail at the Upper Mazaruni, Region Seven location.
He was air-dashed to the city, hours after the attack and was admitted at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he remains a patient.
The man suffered injuries to both arms as well as a gash to his left knee cap which was almost severed. He has since undergone a number of surgeries.
Speaking with this publication from his hospital bed yesterday, Baptiste recalled that he was leaving the area to return to Georgetown, when he was attacked. He had ventured into the interior about two months ago to seek employment.
He explained that while working in the area on a dredge for a man called “Morris, he decided to return home to Georgetown.
“After I finish de work I get couple pennyweight of raw gold. It was me and about three other man and we decide to come out. They come out before me and we meet up.”
“The men,” he said “gave me money to buy some things fuh we eat at a shop. When I come back they ask me to keep dem bags.”
While standing along the trail watching over the bags, Baptiste said that he was attacked.
“All I know is like about six men run pass me. I didn’t tek it for nothing, but then they circle me and one pull a arrow and bow and shoot me. They scramble up the bags and started to beat and chop me. Ah know one of dem though; the one that shoot me with the arrow is an Amerindian man. I know him. I meet he when I de going in the bush and he showed me a shortcut.”
The injured man recalled that the men searched the bags and emptied his pockets before leaving him in a bloodied state along the trail.
He said that he could have been dead if it were not for a few public-spirited citizens on a passing truck. The man recalled that the group of assailants ran off after some people on the truck intervened.
“They run into the bush, but people know them. It look like is this what they does do – beat and rob people in the trail. And because police deh far away from there, it got to be that they does do this thing steady, because the police would tek about five hours before they reach dem,” Baptiste reflected.
From all appearances, the man said, the police have not arrested anyone in connection with the incident.
The injured man expressed his concerns about the investigations.
“One police woman alone come at the hospital to see me since, and she tek down me name alone. She didn’t even look to tek a statement. They had an Amerindian lady in there (14 Miles Issano) that know these people that rob me, and I know the woman,” he explained
The father of one is adamant that his attackers must be found and brought to justice.
“I could have died because I lose a lot of blood, and I wait for almost a whole day before I get to the station and then the hospital. Dem man could have killed me for li’l gold,” he stressed.

Looks like nuff antiman in the police force as this man was strip searched and made to squat repeatedly naked. 

French citizen claims cop strip-searched him at Outpost

Dec 13, 2016 News 0 Comments

Guyana-born French citizen Benn Kenneth Anthony says that he was humiliated and horrified when a local police rank performed a body cavity search on him.

Benn Kenneth Anthony

Anthony claims that he was ordered by a plainclothes policeman to remove his underwear and perform squats during an immigration search at Moleson Creek.
According to him, this happened on November 20, while he was making his way to board the ferry to Suriname en route to French Guiana, where he has been living for two decades.
The 22-year-old man said he reported the matter to the Moleson Creek Police Station.
Anthony recalled that he was taken into an area where he was ordered by the rank to empty his suitcase.
“He didn’t even identify himself to me. But I could recognize him if I see him again. He just lifted up the suitcase and turned it over. When he finished searching the suitcase he asked me if I was ever charged for any offence.”
The man said he replied in the negative and told the rank he came to Guyana to visit his grandmother.
He said the rank patted him down and insisted that he remove his pants and underwear. “He asked me to pull down my pants and I removed it up to my knees. Then he told me to take off my brief (underwear).” He related that he complied with the instructions and was then told to squat twice before given permission to repack his suitcase and leave.
“He found nothing illegal on me,” Anthony stressed.
He said he is still trying to come to grips with what happened.
“I have travelled all over the world and this has never happened to me. Is this something normal for immigration in Guyana? I felt very uncomfortable with him (the rank) in that room.”
“I’m not looking for a problem with police in Guyana. I just want them to stop doing this.”
Anthony added that he is sure other passengers have been subjected to this kind of search and is calling on them to speak out.
“I’m trying to highlight this. I want that rank to be disciplined.”
Anthony stated that when he visited the Police Outpost to report the matter, another rank told him that he could not deal with the matter because the rank who strip-searched him is his superior.
Nevertheless, he stated that a police constable took a statement from him after being instructed by another senior rank, and promised to give him an update on investigations, when he returned to Guyana.
“I come back on December 7 and I see them (the rank that searched him and the constable that took the statement). They both walked past me.”
A copy of the one-page statement dated November 20, 2016 – with the police rank’s regulation number – was seen by Kaieteur News.
“He (the constable) ain’t even sign the statement. He just put he regulation number. I don’t even think that is he regulation number. I don’t even think this statement valid.”
Anthony plans on reporting the incident to the Police Complaints Authority today. He says if a probe is not launched into the matter he will consider taking legal action against the State.
Anthony, who is still in Guyana, has already sought advice from a local attorney. He has also sent a letter detailing what transpired, along with a copy of the statement, to the Ministry of Justice in French Guiana.

Man shot dead in North East La Penitence

Dec 14, 2016 News 0 Comments

– reportedly went to aid of woman who was being robbed

A 26-year-old man was shot dead shortly after 23.00 hrs last night, reportedly while going to the aid of a woman who was being robbed.
Andrew Scott, of North East La Penitence, was shot in the chest and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Kaieteur News understands that the victim’s family owns a shop and had just shut their business when the tragedy occurred.
According to one report, the shooter had attempted to rob a female security guard, but the woman used a knife to ward off the attacker. She reportedly then ran towards the shop that is owned by the victim’s family.
Someone who claimed to be a relative of Scott’s said that he was going to the woman’s rescue when the gunman shot him.
The shooter reportedly escaped in a car.

Gunmen captured after trailing, robbing Tower Hotel’s accountant

Dec 15, 2016 News 0 Comments

• Security guard shot, $2.5M recovered

The two bandits who were captured

Quick action by the police led to the arrest of two armed bandits, yesterday, minutes after they snatched $2.5M from a Tower Hotel accountant after trailing him from a city bank.
A security guard, 63-year-old Balmick Persaud, was shot when he tried to wrestle with one of the men, the pillion rider, who had jumped off a CG motorcycle and confronted the accountant in the hotel’s Main Street, Georgetown compound.
The guard was rushed to a private hospital where he is said to be in a stable condition. The bullet grazed his abdomen. According to information, police who were in the area as part of the Guyana Police Force (GPF)’s Christmas policing, heard the gunshots and immediately gave chase after seeing the two men on the CG motorcycle acting in a suspicious manner.
The chase led to East Ruimveldt Front Road, where the two men were arrested after running into a house to seek shelter. The police in a press release said that the men had crashed into a trench during their escape bid. In their haste to avoid capture the men left the bag containing the cash in the trench. They also tossed the weapon.
The stolen cash was recovered and up to press time, the cops were searching a nearby trench for the firearm that the bandits had in their possession. According to information received, as the police ranks were pursuing the men, they were shooting at the cops.
At the scene yesterday, one woman said that she was sitting in front of her door when she heard about seven gunshots, followed by a man pointing a gun in her yard.
“I see the man by my gate with a gun peeping in and then he went by the neighbour and arrested the two boys,” the woman said.
She explained that the police also arrested the couple who resided at the property. That property was believed to be a haven for thieves since the gunmen found property from other crime scenes. There were lamps from vehicles also believed to have been stolen.
One of these arrested had been arrested in the past after having been shot during a robbery. On that occasion he was shot in the neck. That near death experience did nothing to have the young man rethink his ways, one woman said.
Investigations are ongoing.

Looks like the PNC can't even protect their own supporters from bandits.

A WISROC, Linden fireman is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was brutally chopped about his body by bandits on Wednesday night.
Masimba Sampson, 30, is now being hailed as a brave man, since he put up a fight against the four bandits who were also armed with a gun. Reports indicate that the perpetrators called Sampson out of his house. Despite being outnumbered, he managed to get the gun from one of the bandits, but was unaware that they were also armed with cutlasses and before he knew it, he was chopped several times about his body, including his face and head.
The bandits then escaped and Masimba made his way to the Wisroc Police Outpost, where he was subsequently rushed to the Linden Hospital but was later transferred to the GPHC. He was bleeding profusely when he was admitted to the hospital. Ranks from the Wisroc Outpost made their way to the home, but came up-empty handed as the bandits had already made good their escape.
A neighbour of the man told this newspaper that the incident occurred around 22:00hrs on Wednesday and he had heard the commotion but did not take it seriously. “I hear the noise last night, but me aint know is chop the boy getting chop up.” Masimba was off duty at the time the incident occurred. Another neighbour revealed that the fireman recently sold a piece of land and perhaps the bandits went after the money. “Hear wah happen, he sell out a set a land behind there, I know he sell two lands to one person, so it got to be dah money them man went after,” he said.

Home owner disarmed , beaten with his own ‘rolling pin’

Dec 16, 2016 News 0 Comments

A 24-year-old man, Randolph Seocharran, of Rising Sun, West Coast Berbice, was yesterday, placed on $120,000 bail, when he appeared in the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court to answer a charge of robbery with violence.
The matter before the court is that on December 13, last, at Plantation Hope, West Coast Berbice, Seocharran entered the dwelling house of Bhagwandin Deonarain, assaulted him and proceeded to rob him of $30,000.
According to Deonarain, he was at home, at Plantation Hope West Coast Berbice, preparing a meal when around 18:30 hours, he heard an unusual sound coming from a section of his house. Upon trying to ascertain where the sound was coming from, the victim said that he observed the accused whom he recognized, climbing into his house. He said that he confronted the intruder with a “rolling pin” which he was using in the kitchen.
The intruder, however was able to disarm the Deonarain, and in turn rained blows on the hapless home owner, using the very ‘rolling pin’ that Deonarain was carrying when he confronted the intruder.
Deonarain was forced to flee his home to escape the blows from the intruder. He was rescued at his gate by a taxi driver. When he checked his house, he discovered that his money was missing.
The matter was reported at the Weldaad Police Station, and Seocharran was subsequently arrested and charged. He pleaded not guilty to the charge, and was placed on bail to return to court December 29.

In PNC supporters feeling the effect of the incompetency of the police to prevent crime. They claim they solving crime but the people prefer preventing crime.

Qualfon’s contractor robbed, shot during robbery

Dec 17, 2016 News 0 Comments

– Believed to have been trailed from bank
A 42-year-old man was robbed of $4M and shot to both legs around 15:00 hrs yesterday shortly

Kenneth Earle

after he arrived at his Lot 75 Prince William Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home. He had earlier made a withdrawal from a city bank.
Up to press time, Kenneth Earle, was being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). He is in a stable condition.
The father of four is contracted by Qualfon to provide transportation services to the company’s employees. At the time of the robbery, he had withdrawn money to pay the other drivers who work with him.
According to information received, just as Earle entered his yard with another individual, two gunmen ran into the yard behind them and opened fire at the duo before grabbing the bag containing the cash.
The father of four was shot to both legs while the individual who was with him escaped without any injuries.
Investigators believed that the man was followed from the bank. No one has been arrested as yet.

I notice quite a few blacks being robbed and many of the crimes entailed a the use of a gun. Someone reading this from outside would think there is No Law AND Order and there is civil unrest in the country.Some heads needs to roll, starting from the top.

This is correct, if Indian getting robbed , it is seen as ok as fund raising and retribution must continue for the ruling party.  However when you see blackman being robbed, you know the incompetency of the police is at critical levels. 

Bandits invade supermarket, beat owner

Dec 18, 2016 News 0 Comments

…escape with $300,000
Around 20:30 hrs on Friday, three armed bandits invaded the New World Supermarket at La Grange, West Bank Demerara (WBD) and escaped with approximately $300,000 in cash after beating the owner of the

The New World Supermarket

supermarket and his wife.
Mr. and Mrs. Xie were taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where they were treated and sent away.
Friday night’s robbery was the second attack on the Chinese’s supermarket since it opened at Lot 12 Independence Street, La Grange last September.
While the bandits escaped with the supermarket’s DVR (digital video recorder), their movements were captured on a nearby camera.
They arrived at the premises in silver grey Fielder wagon bearing registration number, HC 1483.
Dhaniram Persaud said that the Chinese couple is renting his son, Danosh Persaud’s apartment downstairs of the property.
The man said that he was sitting on his verandah when he noticed a young man entering the supermarket.
Shortly after, he heard the shutters being pulled down.
Persaud said that after 15 minutes, the men came out the supermarket with a suitcase and a box. “I ask them if that’s the work they doing and one of them ask me if I good and I picked up a big spindle to fling at them but it couldn’t reach so far.”
The man said that while the robbery was happening, he didn’t get a chance to call the police because he panicked.
Kaieteur News was informed that when the bandits entered the supermarket, they started harassing Mr. and Mrs. Xie and their three sales staff.
Reports are that the day before the robbery, the Chinese couple had purchased stocks for the store.
“When they started beating the people for the money, they telling them that they already spend the money but the boys them beating them for money,” a source said.
Kaieteur News was told that the men, believing it was money, escaped with a suitcase and a box but it actually contained papers and personal documents.
No one has been arrested as yet.

Teen mother gets throat slit by estranged lover

Dec 18, 2016 News 0 Comments

A 19-year-old mother, Michelle Baker, of Lot 90, Mitchell Street, “B” Field South Sophia, is recovering from a wound allegedly inflicted by her former lover.

Jason Henry and Michelle Baker with their son Jaydon.

According to Baker, the incident occurred on Tuesday last. She said that she was assaulted by the father of her one-year-old son, Jaydon. Baker identified her former lover as Jason Henry also of “B” Field Sophia.
The woman told Kaieteur that on Tuesday morning, at approximately 7:00 am, Henry reportedly came to her residence for pampers and milk for Jaydon, since it is normal that the baby would spend weekends with his father.
However, when Baker brought out the milk and pampers for Henry, he accused her of not hugging and kissing their son. She reportedly told him it was not possible with the baby bag in her hand. After Henry collected the baby’s bag, he allegedly grabbed Baker by her arm and said, “You got time for other men but ain’t got time for your son”.
Baker said that she screamed for Henry to let go of her arm. The angry man then told her, “You get brave” and threatened to kill her.
After Henry and the child left, Baker said that she called her mother, Paula Thomas, in hysteria about what had transpired between her and Henry. Thomas reportedly advised her to go to Turkeyen Police Station and make a report. At the station, Baker was advised to proceed to Vigilance Police Station to get a restraining order against Henry.
At Vigilance Police Station, Baker was reportedly told that she cannot have a restraining order against Henry since they are not living together and unless he is continuously threatening her, only then she will be able to obtain such.
While returning home from Vigilance Police Station, Baker was allegedly attacked by Henry, who at the time had a knife which he reportedly used to cut her throat. The duo was reported to have been in a scuffle before Baker’s mother realized that it was her daughter’s screams that she was hearing outside.
After a lad from the area attempted to part the two, Henry reportedly threw away the knife and ran away. He has not been seen or heard from since.
However, it was not until Baker and her mother carried her bloodied clothes to Vigilance Police Station did they receive a restraining order. The restraining order states that Henry must not be within 500ft of Baker and to have no contact with her.
Baker was treated for her injuries at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Follow up on cambio robbery, looks like one of Grangers angels. 

18-yr-old remanded for robbing Berbice Cambio dealer

Dec 20, 2016 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 0 Comments

…prosecutor says charges pending for others

Clive Vanlewin, who was identified as one of the men that launched a brazen early morning attack on

REMANDED: Clive Vanlewin

Number 79 Village, Corentyne Berbice Cambio Dealer, Devendra Churaman has been charged with robbery under-arms.
Vanlewin is 18 years old and resides at Sand Hills, Berbice River.
He was remanded to prison until December 29, after he appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
It is alleged that on December 12, at Number 79 Village, Corentyne Berbice, Vanlewin while in the company of others and armed with a gun robbed Churaman of $22,500,000.
An unrepresented Vanlewin was not required to plead to the indictable charge. He was instructed to make his next court appearance at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court.
Commander of Police ‘B’ Division, Senior Superintendent Errol Watts, had confirmed that one of the suspects was positively identified by Churaman during an identification held at the Albion Police Station last week Wednesday. The commander revealed that Churaman related to police that during the confrontation in his bedroom, the mask of one of the bandits fell off enabling him to see the face of the perpetrator.
According to reports, the bandits who were armed with AK-47 rifles, shotguns, cutlasses and sledge hammers launched their attack around 01:45hrs on the day in question. It was reported

Cambio Dealer: Devendra Churaman

that five of the men who were masked, smashed through the front window of Churaman’s home and hammered through a steel door to his bedroom to gain access.
Based on reports, the businessman was held at gunpoint and forced to lie face down on the floor while the bandits demanded cash and jewellery.
There were reports that while the five men carried out their rampage in the Cambio Dealer’s home, ten others stood guard in the streets firing shots and lighting firecrackers to keep neighbours distracted and at bay. The bandits reportedly escaped with the multi-million- dollar haul in local currency and $1M in jewellery.
When asked if he has any objections to the accused being granted bail, Police Prosecutor Deniro Jones replied in the affirmative.
According to Jones, Vanlewin was positively identified by the virtual complainant as one of the men who invaded his home. The prosecutor noted that firearms were used during the commissioning of the robbery. He also cited the nature and gravity of the charge.
Prosecutor Jones indicated that several others will be charged in relation to the robbery.

Another one of Granger's angels, he say capture, don't kill. Meanwhile the Guyanese feels the brunt of the assault from these angels.

Security guard stabs man before robbing him of cash, cell phones – court hears

Dec 20, 2016 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 0 Comments

A 23-year-old security guard has been remanded to prison for allegedly stabbing a man several times with an ice-pick before relieving him of cash and cellular phones during a robbery.

REMANDED:
Jermaine Jeffery

It is alleged that on December 15, last, Jermaine Jeffery, of Lot 48 Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown, while armed with an ice-pick robbed Yohance Smith of a cell phone, $1,400 cash and other items-property of the said Smith-and another cell phone valued $46,000-property of Keron Humphrey.
The unrepresented man pleaded not guilty to the charge after it was read to him by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
The court was told that the defendant confronted the virtual complainant (VC) at Irving and Laluni Streets, Queenstown and stabbed him several times before relieving him of the cash and cell phones. Smith raised an alarm and public-spirited citizens ran to his rescue and apprehended Jeffery and handed him over to police.
According to Police Prosecutor Deniro Jones, the defendant was positively identified by the VC on an identification parade. Prosecutor Jones opposed bail for Jeffery citing the nature and gravity of the charge. Jones also pointed out that Smith was stabbed during the robbery and that an offensive weapon was used in the commissioning of the crime.
The Prosecutor informed the court that the articles were recovered in the defendant’s possession and are presently lodged at the police station. Jeffery will return to court on January 11.