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“Corentyne Family robbed, terrorized; Four in police custody”


 

Police in ‘B’ Division have arrested four suspects in connection with an armed robbery of a Corentyne Family at Sea well Turn, Corentyne, in the wee hours of Friday morning.

The home that was robbed.

The home that was robbed.

Six armed bandits stormed the home of popular businessman Deoram Woarti of Lot 2, Seawell Turn, Corentyne at about 3:00 am Friday morning.
According to the owner of the two story home, he was in bed when he heard the sound of someone walking on his roof.
He said that his sons’ aged 18 and 21, who occupy the top flat of the home, raised an alarm after realizing that bandits were on the building.
“Me big son seh don’t do we nothing. Then a shot fire and meh lil son try fah hide but them push de room door and drag he out.”
Woarti disclosed to Kaieteur News that they were beaten with a cutlass and a piece of wood by three of the bandits who demanded that they hand over cash and jewellery.
The traumatized victims handed over an undisclosed quantity of local currency and gold jewellery, one tablet and other valuables to the perpetrators who escaped into a nearby savannah.
According to the Commander of ‘B’ Division, Ian Amsterdam, police recovered two spent shells at the scene of the crime as investigations continue.

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Angoy’s Avenue resident shot dead up Canje River

An Angoy’s Avenue resident who traversed between his residence and various points up the Canje River, was reportedly shot dead Thursday evening at Cartina’s Burg, some 75 miles up the Canje River.
Dead is Andel Daniels, 19, of Caracas High Dam, West Canje Berbice.
Reports are that the teen would frequent between his home and the Canje River where his relatives originates from. He and others would reportedly do farming, at Catina’s Burg some two miles from Ikura and a further 20 miles from Bara Cara.
According to the teen’s grandfather, Lowell Amsterdam, who resides at Bara Cara, the family is not sure what happened. He was at the High Dam residence with other family members.
Amsterdam said that they received a call sometime around 21:30 hours that Andel was shot and seriously injured and that he was being transported to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
They journeyed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where they waited. He reportedly died on his way to the hospital. Reports are sketchy. However it was reported that the lad and others were hunting when he got shot. It was also reported that he was descending some stairs which collapsed. Daniels who was carrying a gun at the time was shot when the gun went off.
After he got shot he was placed on a canoe and ferried to Ikura. From there he was taken to the medical center at Bara Cara and then to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
The matter was reported to the Central Police Station and a team of officers was dispatched immediately to conduct investigations.
Adel’s mother, Gould Marcell Amsterdam, called ‘Massa’, 37, who was seven months pregnant at the time, went missing since August 2010.
The woman, who was a neighbourhood police rank at the time and a mother of three, was reported missing after she left to go and visit the father of one of her children, who lived next door.
The lad leaves to mourn two brothers and one sister. He was the eldest.
The gun has not been recovered.
Investigations are ongoing.

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Bandits pistol whip, terrorize mother and son during robbery

 

A woman and her 14-year-old son were gun-butted and robbed Thursday night, when three armed bandits gained access to their home through a verandah.
This was around 21:30 hrs, approximately 20 minutes after the woman’s husband left their Second Street Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home, to pick up a relative, who was staying a few villages further up the coast.
The victims are Hurman Ganpha, 14, and his mother, Carol (only name given). The men escaped with a camera, two cellular phones and an undisclosed amount of local and Canadian currency.
According to information, the gunmen used a ladder, which was left in the yard by construction workers, and climbed onto the verandah. The door was unlocked.
“My son was on the couch with his cell phone and I was in the kitchen when I saw an object in the house. Then someone started pointing a gun. I was going to scream and he hit me in my head with the gun and then he hit my son in his face with it,” Carol recalled.
She said that the men kicked her son and placed a knife to her throat, threatening to kill her if all the valuables were not handed over to them.
“They searched all the rooms and my son gave them all that he knew we had because they say they will kill me. When they finished, they were asking for gold but I didn’t had any to give. I had sold my gold because it doesn’t make sense you have it and can’t wear it,” the woman said.
She added that just as the men were about to leave, they cut a sheet and tied both her and her son. But they managed to untie themselves and called for help.
Carol believes that the men might have been sent to her home by someone who would have visited her place some time back and noticed the ladder.
“My sister came in the country and she went to a birthday party. My husband left to go and pick her up when these people come into my home,” she said. She added that the men were all masked and might have been waiting on her spouse to leave.
Investigations are ongoing.

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Man brutally beaten after grabbing ‘cheap phone’


 

A 30-year-old man, who received a sound thrashing yesterday, after he reportedly grabbed a “cheap

Levi Armstrong

Levi Armstrong

phone” from someone in Enterprise, East Coast Demerara (ECD), is battling for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Levi Armstrong, of Lot 222 Dazzell Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara (ECD) sustained multiple injuries and is attached to a life support machine in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
According to reports, the 30-year-old man grabbed someone’s phone in Enterprise, but was attacked by a mob in the village. He was allegedly beaten with wood, steel and metal pipe and left to die on the roadway. Armstrong’s father, Brandy would only say, “I don’t know anything.”
Meanwhile, a friend of the 30-year-old man, Royan Frank, said that he received a call that his friend was brutally beaten and left to die in Enterprise. “When I got there, I saw him apparently lifeless and blood was all over the place.”
Frank said that when he tried to inquire from residents what transpired, no one wanted to speak to him.
“His jaw break, his foot and hand. They beat he bad, bad. The doctor tells me that he will die,” the man said.
Frank said that he is not sure if his friend indeed grabbed someone’s phone, but claimed that he was never involved in any criminal activities in the past.

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Home > TOP STORY > Man knifed to death at ‘wedding house’
Dead: Arnold Rattan
Dead: Arnold Rattan

Man knifed to death at ‘wedding house’

 

A FATHER of two was killed Monday night after being stabbed by a man in the chest during a wedding celebration at Long Pond Road, Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara (WBD).

Dead is Arnold Rattan 47 of Sisters Village, W.B.D.Reports reveal that Rattan was trying to escort his attacker out of his mother-in-law’s yard because the man was misbehaving. He had stepped over into the yard that was adjacent to the wedding house when Rattan decided to escort the man outside the yard and he was stabbed to the chest with a knife.

His assailant was quickly apprehend by public-spirited citizens and turned over to police. The murder weapon was retrieved by the police.

The tractor operator who works at Wales Sugar Estate was rushed to the West Demerara Regional Hospital where he died while receiving treatment.

Police said the murder occurred at 23:55hrs Monday night after a drunken man refused to be evicted from a yard he was not welcomed.
Meanwhile, police lauded the efforts of citizens who continue to support law enforcement.

According to the deceased father, Puran Rattan, this is the second son he lost in a four year period. The father of five explained that on September 7, 2012 he lost his 32-year-old son Deonanand Rattan under mysterious circumstance, while he worked at Roger Khan Timber Co.

“I would like the police to deal with this case properly and it would be good if they reopen the other case where my next son was killed, two of my sons are gone, I just asking for justice to be served.”

Relatives who were in shock described Rattan as an easy going individual who does not get into trouble.

Residents in the area said the man who is in police custody is known as “Solomon” who sells oranges in the city. “He normally has a knife to peel the oranges when he sells it to people at Bourda side in Georgetown,” one woman said.

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Men dressed as women rob City Chinese store – One nabbed by public-spirited citizen


 
The bandit before he was escorted to the police station yesterday.

The bandit before he was escorted to the police station yesterday.

In a daring early morning robbery, four men clad in women’s attire attacked a popular Chinese-owned store on Regent Street yesterday before carting off an undisclosed sum of cash and articles.
According to reports, the men entered into the ‘Good Life Store’ sometime around 08:30 hrs and began to peruse the items on display. One was seen traversing in and out of the store as if he was carrying out surveillance, while the other three remained in the store.
One female worker, who told reporters that it was her first day on the job, said that the men then demanded that everyone ‘go on the ground’.
The distraught woman said that upon seeing this, she ran and hid in the store until the ordeal was over. It is unclear whether the men were armed.
Kaieteur News understands that after the robbery, the men broke off into groups of two as they stormed out of the store. One group fled in a yellow motor car, an eyewitness said, while the other duo proceeded toward a parked Honda CG Motorcycle.
A cyclist, who requested anonymity, said that he was passing by when he noticed one of the bandits fleeing the scene. He then went in pursuit of the two bandits and grabbed one of them as he was about to mount the cycle.
“I snatch he by he boxers, he partner pull off and I pull brakes and pull he off,” the man said while boasting that he was a former member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).
The Police were summoned where they escorted the bandit to the police station.

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Sophia family robbed second time in two years


 
The injuries Bhim Singh sustained during the attack

The injuries Bhim Singh sustained during the attack

A North Sophia businessman and his family were brutally attacked and robbed by three gunmen shortly after 21:00 hrs on Monday.
Bhim Singh, 52, told Kaieteur News that he had just parked his vehicle in his Lot B 17 North Sophia home, and was about to enter the house, when a man suddenly appeared before him and struck him repeatedly across the face with a handgun. Singh said that he lost consciousness after the severe pistol-whipping.
The man that struck Singh reportedly fired off two shots and barged into the house where he joined two accomplices and proceeded to savagely beat Singh’s wife and daughter.
His wife said that the men stomped her repeatedly as she lay on the floor, she said that they kept asking for money and ransacked the bottom flat before searching the building’s upper flat.
After their search didn’t unearth anything of much value, one of the bandits held a cutlass to Singh’s daughter and again demanded money while threatening to slash her throat. The young woman, fearing for her life, immediately handed over the cash that was in the house – $1,100 Canadian and G$48,000 in cash, along with jewellery.
After the cash was handed over, the trio made good their escape while firing more shots in the air. According to reports, a neighbour who saw the men running through the street shouted for help. Upon hearing that, the men reportedly fired three rounds at the neighbour’s house.
Singh said that when he regained consciousness, he immediately called the police, who arrived five minutes after the ordeal. He said that he found a fully loaded magazine in the yard and a spent shell, which he handed over to the police.
This is the second time in two years that the Singh family has been attacked by gunmen. In 2014, two men armed with handguns invaded their home, Singh however managed to fight off his assailants, who escaped.
The businessman said that he had applied for a firearm licence in 2012 which was acknowledged by then Commissioner, Leroy Brumell, but was given the “royal run around” at the Brickdam Police Station. He said that police officials told him that they lost his documents and that he would have to reapply. Singh subsequently reapplied earlier this year and he showed Kaieteur News a letter indicating that his application was received by the Commissioner of Police (ag) David Ramnarine.
He said that had he been granted a firearm licence, he believes that he would have been able to apprehend at least one of the bandits this time around.

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Cocaine trafficking has seen an uptick under the pnc administration, leading many to question whether the govt is involved in the trafficking.

Home > TOP STORY > Cocaine found in frozen fish, shrimp at CJIA
The packaged drugs contained inside the frozen fish
The packaged drugs contained inside the frozen fish

Cocaine found in frozen fish, shrimp at CJIA

 

OVER 194 pounds of cocaine was seized Tuesday evening in a quantity of frozen shrimp and fish at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), police confirmed.According to a police release the discovery was made at approximately 18:40h by ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch, who intercepted a cargo shipment of thirty five boxes of seafood of which eight contained a total of 88.2 kilos of cocaine.

The shipment was part of outgoing cargo at the CJIA, destined for New York.

This newspaper understands that a man from the West Coast of Demerara is in police custody as other main suspects are being sought.
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Crime continues unabated as the police claims that it has gone done.

Home > NEWS > Parfaite Harmonie businesswoman robbed, neighbours raise alarm
The supermarket the bandits attacked.
The supermarket the bandits attacked.

Parfaite Harmonie businesswoman robbed, neighbours raise alarm

 

– praise police response

Bandits who robbed a businesswoman while she was closing her supermarket in at La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) around 19:00 h Tuesday night escaped after neighbours raised an alarm, when they notice one of the gunmen escorting her into the upper flat of her building. The businesswoman and her two staffers were beaten and robbed in the lower flat, which houses the supermarket at Lot 4881 La Parfaite Harmonie. The bandits, who were focused on gaining access into the upper flat, only managed to escape with three phones, wedding rings and the day’s sale.
Proprietor of N&V Mini Mart, who requested anonymity said that around 19:00 h on Tuesday, they started experiencing a fluctuation in the power, which caused the street lamp in front of her house and business to shut down and so they decided to close early.
“One of my staff went upstairs to put some stuff on the landing and when she was coming down back, one of the guys grabbed her and she started to scream,” the businesswoman said.
Upon investigating the reason for the scream, she said an armed man walked towards her and struck her and another staff on their heads before collecting the keys to the supermarket and her home.
The traumatized woman recalled one of the bandits repeating “I want to kill somebody tonight and I’m willing to kill somebody,” as he dragged her to the back of the supermarket.
“They were saying that they wanted to go upstairs and they were hitting us and I had to tell them that I will do what they want and I open the side door for the supermarket but they wanted to go upstairs…” she said.
“While walking up the step, he told me to bend and duck but I refuse because I know my neighbours would look so I walk upright and they were looking.”
Recalling the terror, she said when she reached to her door; she tried to delay the gunman while using the wrong key to open the door. But the irate gunman became impatient, fearful, she eventually opened the door.
“When I walked in, he walked in behind me and the neighbours see and started screaming and he panicked and walk out back and I closed the door from inside and press the alarm,” the businesswoman said.
Immediately after she then ran to the window and began shouting loudly for “thief, thief” several times to raise and alarm but the bandits had already disappeared. She praised the police for their quick response and is asking for patrols to be in the area more often since many persons are victims of robbery.

Divisional and Branch Commanders; ‘D’ Division Stephen Mansell said police visited the scene promptly and began searching the area for the bandits but found nothing. He said police will be on the alert.

Meanwhile, he noted that on Wednesday the marine police also quickly intercepted a boat with an occupant who dropped a bag containing 35kilos of compressed marijuana. He noted that police in the division are doing their best to keep crime under control.

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Even the PNC supporters are victims as the police continue to deny that crime is out of control. Apparently Granger's criminal supporters can only hold out so long, they have gone back to robbing and killing to get their piece of the pie.

Pensioner Winston Forrester displays his injuries
Pensioner Winston Forrester displays his injuries

Pensioner shot, robbed of motorcycle

 

A PENSIONER who works as a security guard was Tuesday night shot and beaten by bandits who stole his motorcycle after he returned home at his Lot 1497 Westminster, Parfaite Harmonie residence.The man, 65-year-old Winston Forrester, who works at Courtney Benn Contracting, said after arriving home on his motorcycle CH 879 at 19:15 hrs he parked in front of his door.

“I parked my bike in front the door and I locked it and I hear foot step when I look around, I see two men behind me and one of them said, ‘give me the f@$king keys.’

“They beat me in my head and then they shoot me and beat me again,” Forrester recalled in anguished.

Adding that the two men were relentless and did not give him a chance to respond, Forrester said the men appeared to be in their twenties. He said one of the bullets entered and exited his left upper shoulder.

Forrester said the bandits were brazen and weren’t masked. He said at his age he is willing to work hard and the authorities and police should deal with youths condignly who are lazy and appear to be criminal elements.

FM

Hard times under the PNC pushing people to their limits.

Miner shoots wife in mouth, kills self


 

A 73-year-old gold miner shot his 42 year-old reputed wife in her mouth last night before turning the

Dead Miner: Theodore ‘Totie’Adams

Dead Miner: Theodore ‘Totie’Adams

gun on himself at their Lot 24 North Road, Georgetown home, located several doors east of the popular Baroombar. The incident occurred just about 19:30 hrs.
The injured woman has been identified as Sarojini Warnauth, while the dead man has been identified as Theodore Adams called ‘Totie’.
Up to press time, Warnauth was undergoing emergency surgery at a private hospital. The bullet was said to be lodged in her throat.
Doctors have reportedly informed family members that her condition is critical due to the position of bullet. She cannot breathe on her own.
According to information received, Adams and his wife had an argument when he picked up the gun and shot her to the face, in the presence of her 10-year-old daughter.
The woman and her daughter somehow managed to run and lock themselves in a bedroom, before escaping through a window. They were rescued by nearby residents and rushed to the hospital.
The gold miner reportedly shot himself just under his right ear minutes after the woman escaped from the house.
The man’s licenced firearm was discovered at the scene.
Detectives believed that Adams, who was a patient of Dr. Bhiro Harry, might not have been in his right senses when he opened fire on his reputed wife.
Kaieteur News was told that for the past week, the miner was on “the edge” and might have “tripped” last night when he shot his partner and turned the gun on himself.

The house where the incident occurred.

The house where the incident occurred.

Warnauth’s daughter reportedly told police that her mother had just dished out food for the man when he accused her of mixing poison in his meal.
There are reports that the miner had been claiming that persons wanted to kill him over the last couple of days.
Relatives who asked not to be named said that the miner started suffering from a mental breakdown when he suspected his wife had cheated on him some years ago. They insist his illness was not severe.
Meanwhile, the dead man’s brother said that the wounded woman has not revealed much detail as to what really transpired. He said that he was informed when the woman was rescued from the building, a single gunshot was heard from inside the house.
When the police entered the house, Adams was seen lying on the floor with both hands to his side and blood pouring from the right side of his head.
Kaieteur News understands that Adams operated a mining camp in the Mazaruni area.
Meanwhile, Divisional Commander Clifton Hicken said that neighbours heard a loud explosion at the couple’s home and when the police entered the building, Adams lifeless body was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head.

FM

Indians continue to bear the brunt of the PNC criminals attacks.

Bandits ‘dump’ driver after hijacking car


 

A 34-year-old man was beaten and kicked out of his own vehicle at La Parfaite Harmonie,

Vishal Harrichand

Vishal Harrichand

West Bank Demerara (WBD) on Monday night, after three gunmen had forced their way into his car.
The incident occurred around 22:00 hrs, on the eastern side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge.
Vishal Harrichand, a Schoonord, WBD resident, said that he had parked near the entrance to the bridge, waiting on his girlfriend when he was attacked by three men, who later made off with his silver-coloured Toyota Premio, PSS 5038.
Harrichand, who works as a driver with a construction company, said that the men beat and kicked him as he was driving to La Parfaite Harmonie—under their command.
“I was sitting in the car playing a game on my phone, with the two front windows down, when this person come from the back and place a gun at my neck and then two others come behind him. They forced their way into the car and told me to drive,” Harrichand said.
Scared for his life, the man said that he did as he was told.
He claimed that while driving, the men stripped him of his rings, chain, cash and even a few pieces of clothing he had purchased earlier and placed in his car.”
The bandits, who Harrichand said were all dressed in three-quarter pants, took him to an isolated area at the back of La Parfaite Harmonie and kicked him out of the vehicle before driving away.
The victim managed to get to La Grange Police Station where he made a report.
Harrichand said that while he is thankful for his life, he would like to have his car returned, since he recently purchased the vehicle and is still paying for it.

FM

While police toot their own horns about reducing crime, the reality on the ground says otherwise. 

Home > TOP STORY > Japanese trio on holiday, taxi driver robbed at Ogle seawall
 

Japanese trio on holiday, taxi driver robbed at Ogle seawall

 

–suspect held with stolen item
THREE armed bandits in an motorcar without number plates robbed three Japanese nationals, two men and one woman, and a taxi driver Tuesday night at the Ogle seawall, East Coast Demerara.The taxi driver was identified as Abdool Rahim, 38, of Canal No.2, West Bank Demerara. A lone female has since been arrested by police with one of the stolen items, and is assisting with investigations.

According to a police release, the Japanese nationals were robbed of over $2M in electronic items, which included two video cameras valued $560,000, one laptop valued $300,000, $820,000 cash, four cellular phones valued $300,000 and twenty-three video tapes valued $106,000.

The victims, who are on holiday in Guyana, went sightseeing when they were pounced upon by three males armed with handguns, who relieved them of the articles and escaped in a motorcar that had no registration number plates.

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Home > TOP STORY > Buxton man shot in bed
 

Buxton man shot in bed

 

POLICE are investigating a shooting incident that occurred at 23:00hrs last night at Brusche Dam, Buxton, E.C.D, where Brinsley David was injured.Investigations have revealed that the victim was in bed with his wife Zion Clarke, `who left to use the washroom and upon her return she saw someone pointing a black object through the bedroom window. There were then several loud explosions, and Brinsley David was found to be bleeding profusely.

He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation and had undergone surgery.

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Murderation under the PNC continues unabated as the qwe qwe style of governance flounders. 

Home > TOP STORY > Ann’s Grove girl was murdered
Dead: Malika Hamilton
Dead: Malika Hamilton

Ann’s Grove girl was murdered

 

…autopsy: hit to head, strangled, then dumped into Hope Canal

BY Shauna Jemmott

PATHOLOGIST Dr. Nehul Singh has conducted an autopsy on the body of the late 14-year-old Malika Hamilton and found she was brutally bludgeoned to her head, strangled, and dumped alive in the Hope Canal between Monday afternoon and Tuesday.The second year Hope Secondary School student died of ‘asphyxiation’, a condition of severe deficient supply of oxygen to the body as a result of abnormal breathing. An example of asphyxia is choking.

The autopsy report also revealed that before Hamilton was thrown into the Hope Canal while still alive, she suffered ‘blunt trauma to head’ and ‘compression injury to neck’, her cousin Dr. Saska Sertima told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday.

The ‘Miss African Calabash 2014’ beauty queen had left her home at Lot 11 Two Friends Village, Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara late on Monday, but never returned. Her body was fished out of the Hope Canal the following day, where it was spotted by the canal’s ranger.

Relatives of the dead teenager are calling for swift justice as police investigations continue. They said a man suspected to be part of the investigation has disappeared, and there is no photograph available to police.

Hamilton’s mother, Atesha Cambridge, also said that her daughter’s body appeared ‘fresh’, as if she had just died at the time she was pulled from the canal. The family said they observed that Hamilton’s fingers were white and mud was on her skin, which indicated that she was not long thrown overboard.

The family said one of the same men in whose company she was reportedly last seen was observed walking in the direction of Hope when the teenager’s grandmother, Dorrel Cambridge, enquired of her whereabouts from him on the morning when the search for the missing girl began.

“Dem seh she bin a bathe a trench, but me seh Malika doesn’t go and bathe a trench,” the woman told the press.

Relatives and friends said the teenager did not know how to swim.
“Me start ask people, and then me stop wan boy name Satan, and he seh ‘Malika and all ahwe bin a bathe a trench deh (not far from her home) and Malika lef and seh she ah go ah she grandmother’ (at Hope, two villages away).

“Me seh ‘wait, Malika doesn’t lef so! How Malika go lef hey, pass we hey (her home)…. How she go bathe a ‘big bridge’ and pass hey wid she wet skin and go at she grandmother at Hope?”

The Guyana Chronicle understands that the man had told another woman that Hamilton had left for Hope with his slippers, but relatives said no slippers were found near the teen’s body; and they have observed the man wearing the same slippers he said she had borrowed, even on the day she was discovered dead.

On Wednesday, however, the ranger who found the teen’s body the day before, also a boat operator, said he had traversed the canal several times, transporting workers on the infrastructural project, but did not notice her body earlier. It was not until he was making his third trip that he spotted something black in the canal. The man said because the canal is clean, he quickly observes anything strange in it.

He later returned to the area after he was informed that Hamilton was missing, and after spinning the boat, the waves shifted the body, causing him to recognize her clothing.
The ranger also said that on Monday he transported Malika and three men, including ‘Satan’, across the canal from Douch Four to Hope, at about 13:00h. That was the last reported time that Hamilton was seen alive. Her body was on Tuesday pulled from the canal, around the ‘Skinny Dam’ bridge at ‘Star-apple Tree’ area, where men go to catch birds.

Meanwhile, family members of the dead girl are upset that Lyken Funeral Home did not store her body properly, resulting in the body being bloated and starting to decay. Her mother said she is deeply hurt and has decided to bury her daughter this Sunday, as a result.

“They didn’t put her properly! She start spoil. She cannot keep anymore long. Is best she go and bury early. They need to do their work and job more properly. It’s hard to open my child properly like that. I give them my child properly. When me child come out (the water) me child was fresh fresh,” the distraught woman told the Guyana Chronicle.

Malika Hamilton, whose Facebook name is Iheart Malika, had, a few months ago, posted on her page, “If love only exist in my dreams, don’t wake me up!!!!!!”

FM

And the PNC bragging that serious crime is down.

Home > TOP STORY > Sleeping man brutally chopped by uncle
 

Sleeping man brutally chopped by uncle

 

A FORTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD man who reportedly brutally chopped and maimed his 20-year-old nephew on Wednesday night, then hid in an attic (ceiling) was hunted down and eventually found by the police who took him into custody. The victim, Ivor Heeralall of Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, suffered multiple chops to the left side of his head and is currently warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH). Computer Tomography (CT) scans done, have determined that he suffered a fractured skull, fractured jaw and injury to his spine, which has left his right hand paralyzed.
According to reports given by relatives, Heeralall has been living with his grandmother ever since he was a child, and the accused, who is her son, also shares the same home when not on a fishing boat at sea.
On Wednesday night, the younger Heeralall had already retired to bed when his uncle came home, apparently drunk. Described as a man with years of experience as a sugar-cane harvester, and one who generally carries around a long, sharpened weapon, the suspect approached the sleeping lad in his bed and proceeded to inflict several stab wounds about his nephew’s body.
The lad in pain and in a sleeping stupor, apparently fell off the bed and was found bleeding on the floor by his grandmother the following morning (Thursday). According to the elderly woman, after not seeing her grandson get up to go to work, she went into the room to wake him up, but to her horror, he was lying on the floor unconscious and in a pool of blood. She summoned help and he was taken to hospital.
Meanwhile, a female relative recalled that around 01:30hrs on Thursday morning, the suspect phoned her asking for food, but she did not entertain him and hung up. She figured the act might have been committed soon after, since he was enraged after not getting the food.
After word went around about the chopping incident, the suspect is reported to have asked the owners of a fishing vessel to whisk him away on the trawler so he could escape the police, but he was again refused. Relatives say the man has had previous convictions for wounding with intent.

FM

The AFC contingent of the government will now have to find new source of funding. They must be mad with the PNC for blocking their business.

Kapil Haresh Thakurian
Kapil Haresh Thakurian

Enmore man charged for ‘coke’ in frozen fish

 

FOLLOWING the discovery of over 200 pounds of cocaine in frozen fish at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), a 31-year-old East Coast businessman was on Friday remanded to prison. Kapil Haresh Thakurian of Foulis, Enmore, made his first court appearance before city Magistrate Leron Daly in relation to the matter. He denied the allegation.

 The packaged drugs contained inside the frozen fish

The packaged drugs contained inside the frozen fish

Particulars of the charge alleged that on Tuesday, August 9 at CJIA, Thakurian had in his possession 88.200 kilograms of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
The businessman was represented by attorney-at-law Peter Hugh who made an application for his client to be released on bail, since the defendant did not pose a flight risk.
Police Prosecutor, Inspector Kevin London, objected to bail because investigations into the matter were still ongoing.
Magistrate Daly ruled in the prosecution’s favor and remanded the businessman until August 26 for statements.
Police on Tuesday intercepted and seized over 200 pounds of cocaine in the cargo shipment of frozen fish.
According to the police, the bust was not made by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) but by the Police Narcotics Branch. The Guyana Chronicle understands that the shipment was intended for New York.
It was revealed that the shipment was being processed through a local air-cargo service.

FM

Seems like the PNC thieves are not listening to their leader Granger. They continue to rob.

Police investigators at the crime scene yesterday
Police investigators at the crime scene yesterday

Armed bandits storm Bharrat’s Jewellery

 

BY Shauna Jemmott

ARMED bandits carted off $900,000 in cash and a quantity of jewellery as they robbed Bharrat’s Jewellery and Grocery Store at Robb Street and Orange Walk, Bourda, Georgetown, Friday morning.Police ‘A’ Division Commander Clifton Hicken told the Guyana Chronicle that around 09:30hrs , a 65-year-old woman was selling in the grocery department of the store when a man posing as a customer approached and ordered a gallon of water.
When the woman opened the door at the counter to deliver the water, the man stormed into the inner part of the shop and armed with a gun, grabbed the items. As the Guyana Chronicle visited the scene Friday morning, the police were conducting investigations, but the media could not have accessed the victim.
The owners of the store were contacted, but told the Guyana Chronicle that the female victim, who received minor head injuries during the ordeal, had visited the doctor and was too traumatized to speak to the press.
Sources around the area told this newspaper that the bandits dealt the woman a lash to her head, resulting in minor injuries. She was treated by a doctor and sent home.
Commander Hicken told the Guyana Chronicle that the police are examining images on surveillance cameras in the area, to see if there would be a breakthrough in the crime.

FM

Carjacking seem to be one of the PNC bandits easiest mode of earning a living.

Another car hijacked, driver thrown out at La Parfaite Harmonie


 

Less than a week after a Schoonord, West Bank Demerara resident lost his car, when three men forced him to drive to an isolated area in La Parfaite Harmonie, another driver has reportedly experienced the same fate.

Shaheed Mohamed

Shaheed Mohamed

This time it’s 29-year-old taxi driver, Shaheed Mohamed, of 60 Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo.
Mohamed lost the silver Toyota Premio, PVV 5302, he was driving early yesterday morning, after a man hired him from the eastern side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge to go to La Parfaite Harmonie, around 00:45 hrs.
According to Mohamed, he and another taxi driver had parked at the bridge, and were waiting on customers, when a man approached him and asked the price to go to La Parfaite Harmonie.
“I told him the price and he said okay and jumped in the vehicle. When we reached a dark corner at Parfaite, he asked me to stop, because he wanted to make a call, so I did,” the man recounted.
He said that the passenger appeared to make a call while inside his vehicle, but ‘hanged up’ after it appeared that no one answered.
“Suddenly, I see a white Toyota Allion (number given) pull up next to me and two men jump out of the vehicle and come to me with a gun.”
Mohamed said that the men dragged him out of the vehicle and removed his silver band and took his phone along with $45,000 in cash.
“They were talking hard and the people at a house nearby heard and asked ‘what is going on there’ and the two of them jumped in my car and the other one jumped in the white car they come in, and drove away,” Mohamed said.
A report was made at La Grange Police Station.
Last Monday another driver, Vishal Harrichand, said that he had parked near the entrance to the Harbour Bridge, waiting on his girlfriend, when he was attacked by three men, who later made off with his silver-coloured Toyota Premio, PSS 5038.
Harrichand, who works as a driver with a construction company, said that the men beat and kicked him as he was driving to La Parfaite Harmonie—under their command.
He said that when he reached to the designated location, the men stripped him of his rings, chain, cash and even a few pieces of clothing he had purchased earlier and placed in his car.
Harrichand’s car has not been located.

FM

Bandits beat fish vendor, terrorise and rob family


 

A bandit with a gun and two others with cutlasses escaped with cash and jewellery after terrorizing a Corentyne family at around 05.00hrs yesterday.
Ceenarine Cyril Satrohan, 36, of Lot 232 Reef Section, Rose Hall, Corentyne, was at home with his wife and children when the bandits struck.
Satrohan, a fish vendor at the Rose Hall Market, was preparing to make his daily sales when the bandits struck.
“Me get up to tek out de fish from de freezer and go me go round de side of de house to collect de plastic, de one with de gun point it in me face and seh ‘don’t holler’ and me start holler hard and he lash me wid de gun.”
The traumatized man stated that he was dragged back into his home by the bandit who then demanded cash and jewellery.
“When de one wid de gun seh ‘gimme money and gold’, de other two run upstairs to meh wife and when she start holler meh tek out de money and give them. Den he drag meh and carry meh to de bathroom and one of them from upstairs come down fah watch me while he go up to meh wife.”

Sarita Satrohan

Sarita Satrohan

Ceenarine Cyril Satrohan

Ceenarine Cyril Satrohan

Satrohan added that the men then began beating him with the cutlass saying that they would “chop off his hand and foot”.
He was then taken upstairs to find his wife being stripped of her gold jewellery.
According to Satrohan’s wife, 26-year-old Sarita, she tried to shut the door before the bandits could gain entry but the men overpowered her.
“One of dem tell meh don’t holler, all we want is money and gold. And meh start pull off all me ring pon meh finger and meh band and suh and give dem”.
She told Kaieteur News that one of the bandits grabbed her by her neck and placed a cutlass to her privates.
“He scramble meh neck then he put de cutlass pon meh private and he carry meh husband back downstairs and stay wid he”.
The woman told this publication that she retreated to the lower flat of the home with her husband while the bandits made good their escape.
The bandits carted off $60,000 in cash and over $100,000 in gold jewellery.
Meanwhile, police have arrested a man who had allegedly threatened to rob Satrohan a few days prior to the incident. According to information recieved, the man was hired by the fish vendor to assist him in transporting his goods from No. 64 village.
Satrohan said that the deal turned sour after the agreed payment was changed.
He said “de man is meh fren and meh tell he seh me gon pay he $4000 if he carry meh to the fishery to by fish and he seh yes. So now when we done buy de fish and coming back, me tek out meh money fah pay and meh had alot of money on meh, suh me give he de four thousand and he seh me gotta give he more money, but dah wasn’t de agreement.”
He added that the man then threatened to hire people to rob and kill him.
“He keep saying that he would set people fah rob me and kill meh and dump me body far suh meh seh man buddy, me and you is fren, how you could tell me that? And now look meh get rob”.

FM

This trend of Indos being robbed, brutalized and murdered just because they are Indos is a reminder of PNC part One. 

This administration is taking Guyana to destruction with their corruption, theft and wholesale racist attitude and policy towards Indos. It will only get worse.

Those who supported the AFC will live to regret because of their mistakes. Moses is now a piece of trash for Granger. Trotwman was recently chosen over Moses to chair an investigation. This speaks volumes of what Granger thinks of Indos in the PNC.

More is yet to come. Indos who are smart enough should leave now. It will become dog eat dog under the PNC crooks.

FM
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Home > TOP STORY > Teen chopped, beaten to death –during ‘wedding-house’ brawl
Murdered: Devanand Sanichar
Murdered: Devanand Sanichar

Teen chopped, beaten to death –during ‘wedding-house’ brawl

 

By Michel Outridge

DEVANAND Sanichar, 13, of Plantain Walk, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara (ECD), was reportedly chopped and beaten to death by a group of men following an argument at a ‘wedding house’ in the village on Sunday night.The incident reportedly occurred at approximately 23:30hrs at the Plantain Walk Access Road, in Triumph, not far away from where the lad lived.

Devanand’s grieving parents and siblings

Devanand’s grieving parents and siblings

According to the police, Sanichar, who was at a function in the village, had earlier had an altercation with some men over a girl. He reportedly left the function and returned with a cutlass, whereupon the argument continued.

Reports are that one of the persons with whom he had the argument took the cutlass away from the teen and dealt him a chop to his head; and that whilst on the ground, he was given a severe beating with a stick.

The Guyana Chronicle has learnt that three persons are in custody, assisting with the investigation but the primary suspect is currently on the run.

11 HOUSES AWAY
Mother of the deceased, Sookdai Sanichar told this newspaper that she, along with other relatives and her son, were at a wedding some 11 houses away from theirs, when at around 23:00h, she saw him leave.

Reports are that the teen had been drinking beers before he left the ‘wedding house’ with a friend who frequented their home.

The grieving mother of four said that within 15 minutes of his leaving, she was informed that he was lying lifeless on the street.
She said she immediately left the wedding and went to verify what she had been told, and upon arrival, found that he was indeed lying in a pool of blood on the street, with a gaping chop wound to his head.

According to the woman, her son’s body bore other marks of violence.

She said it was based on the information given the police by another teen, who reportedly saw what happened, that three persons are now in custody.

The Sanichar’s home

The Sanichar’s home

The teenager reportedly saw a group of men, all of whom reside in Beterverwagting, chopping Sanichar as he attempted to defend himself with a piece of wood. It is believed that while the teenager was attacked by five men, the prime suspect is still at large.

NEW TO COMMUNITY
And according to sources, he not only recently moved to the community and befriended the teenager, but would invite him out from time to time.

“I need justice for my son,” the lad’s mother said, “because he was a good person. He didn’t drink a lot, didn’t t’ief nor smoke; and whoever killed him should face the full force of the law.”

As she told the Guyana Chronicle, Devanand, who was her ‘first-born’, attended Lusignan Secondary, but due to circumstances, she was forced to take him out of school.

His father, meanwhile, said he was not around when the incident occurred, and is at a loss as to why anyone would want to kill his son.

The teen would have turned 14 on September 23.

FM
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Home > NEWS > ‘Mai Mai Dam’ altercation… Alleged gunman flees, leaving severed wrist
Valas Mootee
Valas Mootee

‘Mai Mai Dam’ altercation… Alleged gunman flees, leaving severed wrist

 

–he and cohorts hospitalised after chopping spree

By Jeune Bailey-Van Keric
AFTER his left hand was severed at the wrist, eyewitnesses say, Ashton Simon fled the scene, leaving it behind, fluttering on the ground where it fell, silver ring still intact.The 42-year-old father of five, of Sheet Anchor, East Canje, was amongst three persons who went to ‘Mai Mai Dam’, a squatting area on the eastern fringes of the township of New Amsterdam, on Sunday afternoon ostensibly to settle an old score. According to eyewitnesses, Simon was the first to mount the stairs of the home of the Gildaries, the family with whom he and his two friends had a misunderstanding.

It was around 17:30hrs, they said, and Rohit Gildarie was seated on the front stairs having a meal, when Simon, along with Valas Mootee Boodie and Jason Wilson exited a motorcar driven by one André Lewis of Palmyra Village.

Ashton Simon

Ashton Simon

QUICK AS A FLASH
Reports are that it was Simon who pointed a gun at Rohit’s neck, when, quick as a flash, one of the latter’s siblings, who was armed with a cutlass, fired a chop, severing Simon’s left hand, which was in an upraised position in the vicinity of his neck. He also sustained other injuries about the body.

His two companions meanhile, who had accused the Gildharies of being police informers, were also dealt several chops during the melee, which saw curious neighbours and passersby flocking the scene to get a first-hand glimpse of the incident.

Wilson lost his left ear, and suffered lacerations to his back and chest, while Boodie, a fisherman, was chopped in the region of his right side rib.

All three men remain patients in the male surgical ward at the New Amsterdam Hospital.

NO BUSINESS
During a visit to their home late yesterday, Simon’s relatives were overheard quarreling, saying that he had no right to be in other people’s business.

“I keep talking to he, but he does not hear. He got five children, and one on the way. He keep following people and their nonsense. Now he lost he hand; dis boy nah ah hear,” said a woman who said she was his cousin.

Meanwhile, Boodie, aged 25, denied either of them having a gun in their possession. He however opted to remain silent when asked the reason for he and his friends being in the area.

Eyewitnesses said that after the cutlass attack, the men fled the scene, leaving behind a trail of blood and Simon’s wrist, which a plain-clothes detective subsequently took away.

A father and two sons have since been arrested, and are assisting police with their investigations .

FM

Businessman narrowly escapes death during brazen robbery


 

– elderly couple fearful after suffering similar fate

Police on the West Coast of Demerara are investigating two daring robberies that have left business

A distraught Khemraj Persaud

A distraught
Khemraj Persaud

-oriented families not only traumatised, but contemplating the future of their income-earning endeavours.
In fact, a victim of one of the robberies, Khemraj Persaud, is currently counting his lucky stars that he is still alive to talk about the ordeal. The 49-year-old man, during an interview with this publication, revealed that one of the two armed bandits who invaded his home yesterday morning fired a bullet that missed his head by mere inches.
“I felt this thing pass me and I couldn’t believe was a bullet pass me head like that…I coulda lose my life this (yesterday) morning,” Persaud reflected.
Persaud, who operates a small supermarket called ‘Vincent’, at 100 New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, disclosed that the business, which is situated in the bottom-flat of his two-storey home, has been in his wife’s family for a number of years.
This is not the first time that the business has been the target of bandits. But the incident yesterday, he recalled, was particularly traumatic.
“This is the third time we get robbed, but this is the first time for this year,” related Persaud.
He recounted that he opened his business place around 06:00 hours yesterday and had gone into a kitchen situated at the back of the shop to squeeze oranges and feed his bird. But what he wasn’t aware of was that someone had trailed him into the kitchen.
Persaud said that he only realised he had company when he was struck behind his head and instructed to lie on the ground. After instinctively turning around to see who had hit him, Persaud said that he complied with the intruder. “He had this small gun in he hand, and is this gun he use to hit me in my head,” said Persaud of his attacker.

Persaud’s shop was the early morning target of bandits.

Persaud’s shop was the early morning target of bandits.

Almost immediately, another gun-toting man appeared in the kitchen, Persaud said, and ordered him not to holler, after which he started to make demands for money.
“I tell them the money in the shop, and they run into the shop and grab up all the money there (in a drawer),” Persaud disclosed. But this was not before one of the unmasked men fired a shot at Persaud who was still in a lying position.
The man said that after the shot rang out and the men left to secure the money, he used another exit and ran out of his yard. From a safe location he saw the men checking their weapons and shortly after a car picked them up.
Police ranks who arrived on the scene were furnished with a description of the vehicle and its registration plate, although it is suspected that the latter might be false. Persaud said the police also removed a spent shell from his premises.
According to Persaud, the incident has left his entire family traumatised, including his wife and children. “We were thinking to expand our business, but this thing just scare me so much I thinking about putting a for sale sign,” Persaud added.

YET ANOTHER BUSINESS
And Persaud’s family was not the only one to suffer at the hands of bandits over the weekend. The night before, another business place at Lot 4, Nouvelle Flanders Village (Crane), West Coast Demerara was robbed.

The premises belonging to Lennox and Verna Albert that was invaded by bandits.

The premises belonging to Lennox and Verna Albert that was invaded by bandits.

The business place is operated by an elderly couple, Lennox and Verna Albert. They are both 69 years old.
Speaking to this publication yesterday, the woman said that she and her husband were about to close their shop around 20:00 hours Sunday when their premises was invaded.
She explained that her husband had just closed the gate that leads to their shop and was about to secure a shed when two young men scaled their gate and held her husband up at gunpoint.
The woman said that the men, one with a long gun and the other with a short gun, took away her husband’s licenced firearm and forced both of them (she and her husband) into their home where they ransacked all the rooms.
“They kept asking ‘Where is the gold? Where is the money?’ They said they wanted everything. These were good looking boys, but they were rough,” recounted Verna Albert. In addition to relieving them of more than $500,000 in cash, the woman said that the men also carted off colognes, male underwear, a cellular phone as well as a gold ring – the only jewellery Mrs. Albert had.
The couple is troubled about the loss of the firearm since, according to the woman, “we waited five years to get this gun licence and just like that, the firearm gone.”
According to Mrs. Albert, over the number of years she and her husband operated their business they have been robbed multiple times, and therefore her husband had applied for a firearm licence.
Police in a statement indicated that Lennox Albert was relieved of a .32 pistol with five rounds of ammunition.
The couple is hoping that with the evident threat to their livelihood that they will be given permission to obtain another firearm

FM

Car abandoned, drugs found following police roadblock


 

The police in Corentyne on Monday evening found an abandoned vehicle which was suspected to have been abandoned by drug dealers after they were cornered by police.

The seized car in which Berbice police reportedly found a stash of marijuana and a passport on Monday evening.

The seized car in which Berbice police reportedly found a stash of marijuana and a passport on Monday evening.

According to reports, around 18:05 hrs on Monday, last, the police received information that a vehicle was travelling with a large quantity of drugs destined for the Upper Corentyne area.
The police subsequently set up a roadblock along the Corentyne highway.
During that time, a vehicle which was suspected to be a taxi and fitting the description, came rolling up toward the roadblock. However upon seeing the police, the driver of the vehicle made a sudden about turn and headed back in the direction of New Amsterdam.  The police boarded their vehicle and gave chase, but were unable to locate the gateway car.
Conducting further investigations, the cops received information that an individual had disembarked a car fitting the description of the vehicle being sought, and had boarded another vehicle.
The cops later came upon a parked Silver Grey Toyota Carina, HC 5277, which fit the description of the second vehicle, and was apparently abandoned by the occupants.
The vehicle was searched and a multi-coloured shopping bag was found in the trunk. A black garbage bag was found in that bag which also contained four transparent plastic bags with what appears to be leaves, seeds and stems of the marijuana plant.
The vehicle was transported to the Number 51 police station where it was lodged.  The substance was tested and weighed and was found to be 5769 grams of marijuana.
A passport, camouflage jersey and cell phone were also found in the vehicle.
Investigations are ongoing.

FM

Two in custody following robbery of elderly woman


 

The bandits are merciless in their pursuit to take from persons what is not theirs and would pick on anybody. So much so that two thieves from the Central Corentyne area on Monday, last, robbed an 81-year-old woman and another female.
According to reports, around 19:30 hrs on the said day, octogenarian Malwattie Ramcharran and 57-year-old Jas Tyrel called “Girlie” were relaxing in hammocks at their Lot 301 Ankerville, Corentyne, Berbice residence, when two bandits scaled the fence and accosted them.
The intruders assaulted the two women before robbing them of their finger- and ear rings before escaping. The police were summoned and responded promptly.
Acting on information two men fitting the description of the two bandits were arrested in the Ankerville area. They are in custody and assisting with investigations.

FM

Looks like once again the Guyanese public are left to enact justice for themselves as the pnc police are always absent.

Bandits given sound beating after botched robbery

 

A BARBER who is known for wearing a thick gold chain attracted the wrong attention when two bandits on a motorcycle visited his North Ruimveldt home Wednesday afternoon and attempted to rob him.The barber has been identified as 37-year-old Roger Lovell. According to reports, one of the bandits acted as a lookout at the man’s residence while the other made his way into Lovell’s home and woke him up by beating him with a gun.

Startled, the barber was questioned about the specific gold chain. As the beating continued at gunpoint, Lovell used his bed sheet to wrap it around the bandit’s arm, tugging it towards a window.

Both bandits were caught by the residents and beaten severely.

“Police come here in time because they would of dead,” one man said.
“I never see thief happy to see police,” another resident noted.

Police recovered a .32 pistol and live rounds at the scene. Both bandits were admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital and one is reported to be in a critical condition.

Lovell has also been hospitalized.

FM

Guard shot during attack on female mining firm boss


 

Mining company owner Shelly Singh was left traumatized after gunmen shot a security guard and wounded one of her employees after cornering the victims in Mrs. Singh’s pickup outside her Eccles, East Bank Demerara

Shelly Singh [left) with detectives at the scene.

Shelly Singh (left) with detectives at the scene.

residence at around 15.00 hrs yesterday.
But the two gunmen and their driver were forced to flee empty-handed after the wounded guard discharged several rounds at the attackers. According to a source, the guard believes that he may have wounded at least one of the gunmen, since the shootout occurred at relatively close range.
A relative of Mrs. Singh said that a bullet grazed the back of the head of one of Mrs. Singh’s employees. He was treated but was not admitted.
Kaieteur News understands that Crime Scene ranks found two warheads lodged in one of the door panels of Mrs. Singh’s pickup. At least eight spent shells were found close to the driveway.
Relatives believe that the gunmen trailed Mrs. Singh from a city commercial bank.
Kaieteur News was told that Shelly Singh, accompanied by an employee and a guard, had conducted a transaction at Demerara Bank Limited on Camp Street. They then headed to Singh’s home in Eccles. But just as they entered the driveway, a grey car stopped nearby and two men exited. Both reportedly had handguns.
There was a brief exchange of gunfire between the bandits and the security guard, who had armed himself with Mrs. Singh’s handgun.
The gunmen eventually retreated, while the injured were taken to a hospital.
Singh’s relative who spoke to Kaieteur News said he was upset that investigators had asked the mining company owner to hand over her firearm. However, a police source said that this was a routine aspect of such an investigation.

FM

Chain snatcher caught hiding in woman’s bedroom


 

A thief was captured hiding in a woman’s bedroom yesterday, minutes after he grabbed a chain from a man in Bourda market, Georgetown. This occurred around 14:15 hrs yesterday.

The suspect arriving at the GPHC yesterday.

The suspect arriving at the GPHC yesterday.

The suspect has given his name as Gonsalves also known as “White boy.”
According to information received, the suspect grabbed a man’s chain in Bourda market and ran through an alleyway and managed to sneak into a woman’s bedroom through an open window at a house at Robb and Light Streets, Georgetown.
This newspaper was told that when the victim lost his chain, public-spirited persons gave chase.
A resident on Robb Street informed the group of men that she noticed a young man jumping through a window in the apartment beneath her.
“When we went in, the two women who live there said that no one was there, but as we were leaving one of them started screaming, and we run back and see the man in the bedroom,” a source said, while adding that the suspect was beaten by the angry mob.
Kaieteur News was told that when the suspect spotted the cops, he started screaming for them to rescue him from the group of men. He was eventually taken to the hospital where he remains a patient.

FM

Boyfriend gets life sentence for killing teen


Twenty-four year-old Shieldstown, West Bank Berbice resident Shazam Khalil, the man who was on

Life imprisonment: Shazam Khalil

Life imprisonment: Shazam Khalil

trial for the January 2015 murder of his girlfriend, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Khalil stood before Justice Jo Ann Barlow and a Mixed Jury in the Berbice High Court. He was found guilty of murdering Shazina Mohamed, 19, of Edinburgh Housing Scheme East Bank Berbice. The woman was brutally stabbed about her body around 19:00 hrs on Saturday January 17, 2015 outside the Yang Yi Chinese Restaurant in Rosignol, West Bank Berbice.
Khalil was given the sentence following a probation report which was read by Probation and Social Service Officer Adessia Semple.
Attorney at law Stacy Goodings had told the court that the woman was ambushed and stabbed by the accused who then fled the scene.
Mohamed was picked up and rushed to the Fort Wellington Hospital from where she was subsequently transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital where she succumbed.
The attorney had related that Mohamed was at the restaurant with two friends when the incident occurred. She had journeyed to Rosignol to collect a phone and decided to go to the Restaurant with her friends to eat some food when she was attacked by the suspect.
During the trial, the prosecution had called a number of witnesses, including their two main witnesses who were on the scene when the incident occurred.
Vishwa Sukhdeo had stated that he and the now dead woman had shared a casual relationship. He had bought food for his sister who was in the restaurant eating, while he and Mohamed were outside talking. He had just left Mohamed and gone to his sister when he heard Mohamed scream. Upon looking around he saw Khalil hugging Mohamed and apparently cuffing her. He shouted at the man who looked at him before releasing Mohamed and darting from the scene.
The young woman was bleeding profusely. She subsequently collapsed. Sukhdeo assisted in taking her to both hospitals.
Latchmi Sukhdeo had testified that on the day in question she accompanied her brother to the Ritz Mall at Rosignol to unlock a cell phone.  They subsequently met Shazina Mohamed and after a while they walked to the Restaurant where her brother bought some food.  Subsequently Shazina was attacked by the accused.

Murdered: Shazina Mohamed

Murdered: Shazina Mohamed

State Prosecutor Attorney at Law Stacy Goodings had urged the jury to believe the state’s case which had two eyewitness and the doctor’s testimony.
Defence attorney Tajenarine Ramroop in his presentation pointed to some inconsistencies in the prosecution’s case and urged the jury to believe the defence’s case of self-defence and accident.
Justice Barlow had subsequently summed up the evidence to the jury and directed the panel on the law. A probation reported was then asked for. The judge had then granted the request. Attorney Ramroop had told the court that his client was just 24 years old, he is not married, has no children and lives with his parents. It was the first time he was charged for any offence of any sort.
The probation report had outlined that Khalil was the product of poor upbringing. He was the second of 10 children.  He left school at the age of nine to seek employment. The home environment was rundown and was described as a one-flat dilapidated building with a makeshift kitchen. The toilet facilities were situated outside.
The house lacked the basic amenities and the home environment seemed to be overcrowded, with no privacy. There was no electricity. They used gas lamps and candles to light the house.
The relationship with Shazina Mohamed was his third. His first companion took her own life while the relationship with the second ended after her parents disapproved of it.
Justice Barlow before passing sentence told the accused she had listened to the contents of the report and the mitigation of his attorney, but she would disregard the report.
“Poverty is no excuse to kill,” the Judge stated.
She mentioned the fact that he had spent one year in jail, then sentenced him to life in prison with no parole before 24 years are served.
The accused had given an unsworn statement from the dock.
During the trial the prosecution called a number of witnesses including Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan who gave the cause of death as shock and hemorrhage due to multiple stab wounds.
The court also applied Section 95 of the Evidence Act to have the deposition of the deceased woman’s father Shafique Mohamed admitted in evidence.
The state called a number of witnesses to support its application including Police Sergeant Alexis Adams of the Central Immigration and Passport Office, Fazia Mohamed, daughter of Shafique and sister of Shazina, and Legal Clerk attached to the Fort Wellington Magistrate’s Court Ophelia Marques.
Shazam Khalil and Shazina Mohamed had reportedly met by accident. She had mistakenly dialed a wrong number which happened to be Khalil’s. After that they started to communicate.

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Two remanded for murder of boy, 13


Two men were yesterday remanded to prison for the murder of 13-year-old Daveand Sanchar, whose body was found with a chop wound to the head on Sunday last, at Plantain Walk, Triumph, East Coast Demerara.duo
Kevin Sahoy, 20, of 64 Agriculture Road, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, and Raymond Wong, 27, of 110 Agriculture Road, Triumph, East Coast Demerara, were not required to plead to the indictable charge of murder read to them by Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul.
Police Prosecutor David Goodridge told the court that on the day in question, the 13-year-old and the two accused were at a wedding house in the area. He said Sanchar became annoyed at Sahoy dancing with his aunt and subsequently left the wedding house for home.
According to Goodridge, Sanchar returned with a cutlass and an argument ensued between him and the accused, which resulted in Sahoy lashing him to the head with a piece of wood. Goodridge added that Wong was the one who chopped the teenager to his head with a cutlass.
Goodridge stated that Sanchar was picked up and transported to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Attorneys for the accused told the Magistrate that their clients have no pending or previous matter before the courts.
Prosecutor Goodridge indicated that investigations into the matter have been completed, and also, advice was sought from the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Sahoy, a mason, and Wong, an electrician, were instructed to return to the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court on September 13, for disclosure of statements.
According to reports, Sanchar was at a function in the village and was involved in an altercation with some men over a female. It was reported that Sanchar left the celebrations and returned with a cutlass. A further argument ensued and it was alleged that one of the men took away the cutlass from the teen and dealt him a chop to the head, while another man gave him a severe beating with a stick.

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Home > TOP STORY > Man shot dead by vigilantes
Seon Clarke called “Cash Money”
Seon Clarke called “Cash Money”

Man shot dead by vigilantes

 

…friend beaten in suspected attempted robbery

By Rabindra Rooplall
A MAN was killed Saturday evening and another badly beaten after residents of Pearl, East Bank Demerara, suspected them to be bandits and meted out vigilante justice. It is the second such incident to have occurred in recent days and authorities are concerned about this trend, which they fear can lead to a breakdown in law enforcement. Dead is 26-year-old Seon Clarke, called “Cash Money” of Old Road, Land of Canaan, E.B.D. Police said investigations have revealed that Clarke and another male associate were beaten by public-spirited citizens from the community of Pearl Village, E.B.D., about 22:30hrs on Saturday. Police said that about 14:00hrs on Saturday, Clarke and a male companion visited a grocery store at Sarah Johanna, E.B.D, and was observed by the proprietor “behaving suspiciously.”
The proprietor, police said, made his way to the public road and alerted a policeman who

 The second suspect in the incident being escorted by police [Mondale Smith photo)

The second suspect in the incident being escorted by police (Mondale Smith photo)

was passing at the time. The policeman responded and in the process summoned other policemen. The word quickly spread to surrounding villages. “The men fled into the bushes, and during the process, two loud explosions were heard. A search was conducted but they were not found,” the police in the statement.
Again “about 22:30hrs on Saturday night, members of the community spotted the men on the Pearl Public Road and apprehended them; during the process, it was alleged that one of the public-spirited citizens shot Clarke and inflicted a beating on his accomplice. The men were handed over to the police, who rushed them to the Diamond Public Hospital, where Clarke was pronounced dead on arrival, whilst his accomplice was treated and sent away. He has since been taken into police custody and is assisting with the investigation.”
The father of the dead man, Godfrey Clarke, said that he last saw his son two weeks ago in Georgetown since they do not live together. He said his son had previous brushes with the law and had been released from prison four weeks ago after being on remand for simple larceny. He had spent four months on remand. The senior Clarke said he heard of the incident at “Aron Shop” at Pearl, EBD, but had no idea it involved his son. “I hear that police shoot behind someone, but is now I actually hearing that is he. The last time he come home here he told me he had some construction work at Vega on the West Coast and when I saw him the next day, I ask him if he get paid and he said yes, but his money finished on the sea wall.”
The senior Clarke said he had advised his son to attend church and had asked him to change his life and get a job. Adding that his son’s mother died over a decade ago, Mr Clarke said he had spoken to his son on numerous occasions about his intentions and plans for his life. The elder Clarke said his son never took his guidance and the end result was death.

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Bandit shot by accomplice after robbing Berbice family

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A bandit was accidentally shot and killed by his accomplice while making their escape after robbing an East Bank Berbice family during the wee hours of Sunday.

The dead bandit has been identified as Odan Lallbeharry called “Stew”, 45, of New Forest, East Canje, Berbice.
According to reports, “Stew” was among five armed men who invaded and robbed the Edinburg Village home of shop owner Nankumar Datt and it was while they were escaping that he was shot and left behind by his accomplices.
“During (the robbery) one of the suspects received gunshot injuries in the process of exiting the premises and was later pronounced dead on arrival at the New Amsterdam Hospital,” a Police report said.

 

According to the Police, the incident occurred sometime around 01:30h.
Datt’s eldest daughter, Kelly, related the ordeal to Guyana Times on Sunday when she explained that she was awoken by the sound of persons walking on the zinc shed attached to their two-storey house and shortly after her father shouted that bandits were coming, they should run.
“But when he shouts that, the bandits hear and so they hurry and break the window to my sister’s room and come in the house. She was trying to open the room door to get out but she was having a hard time so they catch and start beating her,” the traumatised Kelly related.

The bandits gained entry to the premises by climbing onto a shed and forcing their way through a bedroom window
The bandits gained entry to the premises by climbing onto a shed and forcing their way through a bedroom window

The 21-year-old said that she was then confronted by two men and tried to prevent them from getting to her father, who escaped to seek help. Their mother was in hiding at the time.
She said that the men began shouting for her father by his call-name “Ball Head” and after they were unable to locate him, they began beating her and her 19-year-old sister. At time there were five men in total, all of whom were masked, she stated.
“They beat us bad… they were hitting us with a cutlass; then they told us to put on the lights, and asked for money,” the young woman recalled.
She went on to say that three of them remained upstairs with her sister while two of them forced her downstairs into the shop, where she handed over some money, while they picked up a quantity of phone cards.
“They bring down my sister and continue to beat her and after some time took us back upstairs and asked for more money. So I tell them they have to search the place but then my mother came out and give them the money ($100,000) because they start beating me and my sister again,” she recounted.
Kelly further told this newspaper that the men also took away her mother’s gold bracelet and some artificial jewellery that she and her sister were wearing, before escaping.
“They told us not to move from the upstairs so they stay right there and then we hear two gunshots in the downstairs and we get scared because we thought was my father get shoot,” she stated.
The young woman said that they remained upstairs for a few minutes until they heard noises from neighbours and came downstairs. She noted that when they came down and got outside, they saw a man lying outside on the bridge, while her father was with the neighbours who were gathering around. The Police then arrived at the scene.
In a subsequent statement, the Police said that they arrived on the scene at about 02:00, and found the injured bandit on the businessman’s bridge, clad in dark clothing and a pair of construction gloves.
The Police added that the suspect was taken to the hospital for treatment but succumbed to his injuries.
Police say they managed to extract some vital information from the bandit before he succumbed.
That information led to the arrest of two individuals who are currently in custody assisting with the investigations.

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Home > NEWS > ‘Thief on wheels’ stabs and robs woman on Camp St.
The injured 21-year-old
The injured 21-year-old

‘Thief on wheels’ stabs and robs woman on Camp St.

 

By Svetlana Marshall
HAVING been stabbed and robbed, a 21-year-old North Ruimveldt female resident who asked to remain anonymous is alerting pedestrians to the presence of “a thief on wheels” who is roaming the North Cummingsburg ward, particularly in the vicinity of Camp Street.The young woman said she was proceeding north of ‘the Avenue’ bordered by Camp Street at approximately 21:30h on Sunday when she noticed a dark-skinned man on a red racing bike.

“He ride past me at first but when I was about to cross Church Street he came close to me, but I moved away,” she recalled. Scared for her life, she said, she decided to walk a bit faster but the man decided to follow her. He asked her a number of questions, including the location of Popeye’s and whether she was heading in the same direction. “I told him I was not heading in that direction but he kept asking more and more questions,” she recalled.

She said that just as she was about to pass Ultra Waters on Camp Street between Church and Quamina Streets, the man snatched her two cellular phones but she held on to his cycle.

“I know he would not have left without his bicycle, so I held on to it and I started to scream,” she said. The commotion attracted a couple who was passing in a car and they decided to intervene.

“When he saw the man coming, he said, ‘look back your phone!’ and he throw one of them at me and ran away. The people ran after him but they didn’t catch him,” she recollected.

During the ordeal, she said, the thief stabbed her with a sharp object to the left side of her abdomen and on her left hand, leaving her dripping blood on the public road. She said some good Samaritans placed her in a taxi and sent her to the Georgetown Public Hospital where she was treated and sent away.

She said she received eight stitches for the injuries sustained to her hand, but reported the incident at the police outpost at the hospital.

POLICE FOOT PATROLS
She is emphasizing the need for police to conduct foot patrols at nights in key areas such as North Cummingsburg. Camp Street, particularly between New Market and Quamina Streets – areas known for lurking thieves waiting to pounce on passersby.

Over the years, there have been calls for the police to heighten security in that area. However, Guyana Chronicle was told on Monday that there are usually motorcycle patrols along Camp Street between Regent and Lamaha streets.

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Shears-wielding bandits nabbed after robbing couple

 

TWENTY-year-old Anthony Dharamraj and 18-year-old Anisa Issehani of Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara were walking on the University of Guyana Access Road at about 00:30h on Sunday when they were attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a pair of shears.Besides dealing their victims several lashes, the men robbed the duo of a cellular phone valued $60,000 and $20,000 in cash.

The matter was reported to the police, whose swift action led to the arrest of the men with the stolen items and the shears allegedly used during the commission of the crime.

Police also escorted the victims to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where they were treated for their injuries and sent away.

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Home > NEWS > Trio in custody following death of Better Hope pensioner
Dead: David Ramkissoon
Dead: David Ramkissoon

Trio in custody following death of Better Hope pensioner

 

GUYANA Chronicle understands that Annand Ramkissoon, his employer and another person are being held at the Sparendaam Police Station in connection with the death of 76-year-old David Ramkissoon, a Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) pensioner who was, on Sunday evening, found dead in his home by relatives.Nalini Ramkissoon, wife of the suspect Annand Ramkissoon, who is a son of the deceased, told Guyana Chronicle on Monday that she and other relatives went to a creek on Sunday as part of a family outing, but her father-in-law opted not to go. Upon their return from the outing, she and her husband found their rooms ransacked and the pensioner lifeless on a chair in the living room.

“We left around 12 on Sunday to go to the creek… When we left, my father-in-law was rocking in the hammock,” the woman said. She noted that because the pensioner had opted not to go to the creek with them, several calls were made to him to ensure he was ok, but unfortunately, those calls went unanswered. She claims that neither she nor her husband had found the unanswered calls suspicious, as the elderly Ramkissoon would usually take afternoon strolls.

She said family returned home at Better Hope at approximately 7:30pm on Sunday, and noticed that the lights in the house were off and the doors open.

“When we go inside, my husband (Annand Ramkissoon) went upstairs to check the rooms, but found them ransacked… When he come down now, he saw his father in a pool of blood on the chair with his throat slit,” she recounted.

Neighbours were alerted and the police were called. The elder Ramkissoon was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

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Pensioner found with throat slashed

– Son, two others arrested

The son of a 76-year-old man who was found with his throat slashed in his Lot 61 Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home on Sunday night, has been taken into custody, as police continue to investigate the pensioner’s

The house in which David Ramkissoon [inset) body was found.

The house in which David Ramkissoon (inset) body was found.

death.
The body of David Ramkissoon aka “Shortman”, a father of five, was discovered in a pool of blood in the living room by his son, around 19:30 hrs on Sunday.
The younger Ramkissoon had just returned home after spending the day at a creek on the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway with his family. He and two other persons have been arrested.
Initially, detectives were looking at a theory in which the pensioner was killed during a robbery since the house was ransacked and money was reportedly stolen. However, after carefully examining the property, the cops found no forced entry.
A number of other factors caught the cops’ attention, one of which was the fact that a number of envelopes, in which Ramkissoon would have received his pension money, were found in a refrigerator—as if someone was trying to hide something.
The pensioner shared the home with his son, daughter-in-law and the couple’s two children.
One of the motives the police are looking at is that the pensioner was killed over his property. They seemed convinced that the man’s death was not linked to a robbery.
The daughter-in-law recounted that she and her family left home around 11:00 hrs on Sunday to go to the creek.
“We left late and he was telling us is best we stay home and eat lunch then go to the creek, because the traffic to go to the creek gone be bad. He was sitting in the hammock when we left home.”
She added that when they returned home, they noticed that the house was in complete darkness which was a bit strange.
“My husband went in the yard and opened the door and went inside to put on the light and he go in his father room and called for him, but he see the room ransacked and his father wasn’t there, so we went in the other rooms and they were ransacked,” the woman said.
She said that it was when her husband was heading back downstairs that he noticed his father lying in blood and started screaming.
The daughter-in-law said that she and several neighbours rushed into the house and saw Ramkissoon on the floor. She said that she has no idea as to why the police would take her husband in custody since he is innocent and would in no way harm his father.
When asked if she has any idea as to who may want her father-in-law dead, the woman responded in the negative, but claimed that there are a number of young boys who do not work and would frequent the streets.
The police are looking at other motives.

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14-year-old C’tyne boy murdered

– found with gaping wound to back of head

The body of 14-year-old Akeem Grimmond was found around 13:00 hrs yesterday at Number 61 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, two days after he went missing.
Grimmond of 53 Section ‘B’ Number 61 Village was last seen alive around 17:30 hrs last Saturday when he left his home to go and tend to some cows.
According to his mother, 32-year-old Parbattie Takurdyal, her son would usually tend to a villager’s cows which he would round up in the afternoons.
The woman stated that the lad left home as usual to go to the Number 62 backdam to collect the cows, but failed to return home. After she did not see him around 20:30 hrs she made a report at the No. 62 police outpost.
Search parties were then organized and the body was found with a gaping four- inch wound behind the left ear. He was clad in the same clothes that he had left home with- a green short pants and red and white vest.
Investigations are continuing and several persons have been detained for questioning.

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Home > NEWS > Thieves raid Lethem store
Yimochi Melville
Yimochi Melville

Thieves raid Lethem store

 

A YOUNG Lethem businessman, who said he acquired loans to start a photography business from scratch, is now counting millions of dollars in losses after thieves broke into the shop on Monday night. Yimochi Melville, 34, who was born and raised at Lethem, closed up his business, Melville’s Photoshop, around 19:00hrs Monday, only to discover the next morning when he and his three staff members showed up for work about 08:30hrs that several items were missing.
The business, which offers such services as printing, photocopying, typing, events photography, and computer repairs, is located at Lethem’s airstrip, which usually has no security.
Melville told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday that the effects of the robbery are quite adverse, as, among other things, many of the laptops which were stolen belonged to his customers.
Other items stolen include three high-powered desktop systems (which he had built specially for video editing); two Canon Rebel XS Camera with assorted lenses; one Canon XA10 video camera, including bag and assorted lenses; four external hard drives (with many hours of work); flash drives, SD cards, 3-12v to 110 Realtree camouflage inverters, two point-and-shoot cameras, one Canon SX50 Camera, and even his father’s leathercraft that he was selling for him.
“This morning I opened my store to discover that it was broken into, and a quantity of equipment and goods stolen. Access was gained by cutting a padlock on a grilled window,” Melville explained.
The businessman is worried about how he will manage to pay his loans at monthend. To the best of his knowledge, the police have not found any leads so far. “Please, if anyone has information that could help with the recovery of these items, please help me,” Melville plead.
He can be reached on telephone number 685-3997.

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