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

Lindeners protest alleged Police excess, brutality 

Some of the protesters at Mackenzie

– say “plastic bags” placed over victims heads

 

BY UTAMU BELL

 

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

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

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

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

 

A mother’s cry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Brutus replies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

Plastic bag over heads

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

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

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

 

Drug trafficking

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

 

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

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

Kaieteur and Chronicle not even reporting these stories anymore.

Gunmen terrorise, rob Blairmont family

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

Grandfather chops 10-month-old to the head

Cops nab suspect in C’tyne businessman’s murder

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

The slain man’s store

Patrick Mohabir

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

Guyana continues to be a dangerous place even for teens.

14-Y-0 shot in Charlestown

February 15, 2016

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

Rash of property dispute killings worries Crime Chief

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

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

Pamela Kendall

Charged for his wife’s murder: Deochand Sookchand

Patricia Senasie

Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris

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

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

Charged with killing her husband: Beverly Persaud

Nathan Persaud

Alleged hit man: Oswald Junior Yaw

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

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

Feresa Rozario, 12

Theresa Rozario, 15

Arson murder accused Ganga Kishna (left) and Avishkar Kissoon

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

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

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

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

Armed gunmen rob Corentyne family

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

Man pardoned by the President jailed again for 18 months

Joshua Joseph and Kestor McPhoy

… after charged with breaking and entering, robbery under arms

 

BY KIZZY COLEMAN

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contractor shot during early morning robbery

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

A bullet recovered from the scene.

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

Bandit shot in gun fight with cops

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

The injured David Williams called Dog Face

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

Armed bandits rob Bourda Market vendor

Severed love affair ends in murder/suicide

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

Glenda McCurdy

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

Father of five stabbed to death

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

Dead: Joseph Jaundoo

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

Man confesses to killing boss, stealing gold

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

Two remanded on armed robbery, larceny charges

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

Roy Williams

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

Sophia brothers shot in drive by

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Takurgobin Katwaroo showing his injuries.

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

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

Body of Brazilian woman found in Konawaruk shallow grave