Even the most ardent of the afc/apnu supporters know that all these accusations against the PPP were merely a means to an end, to attain power by raising suspicion and doubt.

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ksazma posted:

Any former PPP official charged lately?

PNC/AFC scraping far below the barrel bottom to still see if there is just a small hint.

These guys were so sure of the corruption and crimes for more than five years and nearly a year later they are still haplessly meandering. Now Goolsarran who they paid all that money to can't find anything conclusive but feel happy enough to "suppose" that the PPP did something. What a shame for someone from my profession after doing a full audit only able to make a supposition.

All of the projects which the PNC vehemently voted against when the PPP/C was in power will be revived and come to fruition.

Gunman opens fire on Police in Albouystown

Corentyne man shot dead, wife badly beaten by bandits

Gowchand Budhu of Lot 636 Topu Village, Nigg was shot dead by two armed bandits who stormed his home on Sunday evening around 20:00 hrs.
According to reports, the man was at home with his wife, Parbattie Budhu who was in the bathroom when the bandits came inside.
The distraught woman disclosed via telephone interview that she was coming out of the bathroom when one of the bandits struck her to her head. “When me come out, one ah dem lash me to meh head and me fall down and dem start lash me mo bad”. Parbattie said that she was losing consciousness but before she completely blacked out, she heard the sound of her husband running towards her direction.
The woman stated that when she regained consciousness, she was upstairs laying next to her husband who was already dead. She then began screaming for her immediate neighbour called “Nando”.
According to the woman’s son-in-law, Arnold Dewlal, he was at a religious function with his wife, Kamala Budhu when he received the news.
“When ah reach here, I see ah crowd of people and me ask what happen and dem seh bandit shoot meh father-in-law so meh ask dem way me mother-in-law deh and them seh she deh upstairs ah holler.”
The man then proceeded upstairs where he saw Gowchand on the floor covered in blood. “Me see the man lay down dead pon de floor with three wounds and blood all over he skin and me mother-in-law deh next to he wid she face full a ‘blood and mud”, the man continued. Dewlal stated that his father-in-law’s licensed firearm was lying next to him with one round intact.
Meanwhile the woman’s distraught daughter, Kamala Budhu, stated that her mother stated that the bandits did not demand any cash or jewellery.
According to reports, the bandits were only clothed in boxer shorts and face masks. According to police sources, a mask was recovered but no gun or shells were recovered from the scene of the crime.
The man was pronounced dead on arrival at the Port Mourant Public Hospital and is awaiting post mortem.
Parbattie Budhu, up to press time has been discharged from the hospital and is currently staying with relatives. Gowchand worked as a security guard at the Albion Primary School.
One person is currently in police custody as investigations continue.

Thieves hit Flamboyant supermarket

The proprietors of Flamboyant Supermarket are counting their losses after thieves broke into their

The empty structure where the gas cylinders were stored before being stolen

establishment and carted away hundreds of thousands of dollars worth in items.
Reports are that thieves broke into the supermarket at about 01:00h on Monday and stole 52 cylinders of gas from the business which is located at 3rd Avenue, Diamond New Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara. The items were valued at $560,000.
Speaking with Guyana Times, the owner of the entity, Keirtie Brasse, said the business was secured at 20:00h but subsequently received reports from residents in the area that at about 22:00h, two men were seen jumping the fence of the premises.
According to the businesswoman, the men shifted the security cameras’ focus and left the business. However, reports are they returned later and broke the locks to the structure where the gas cylinders were security and carted off the items. This newspaper was told that the men they loaded the gas cylinders into two awaiting white cars before making their escape. Additionally, this newspaper was told that even as the men were removing the items, the Police was called but never showed up until the following morning.
When this publication contacted the Diamond/Grove Police Station about the incident, this newspaper was told that an investigation has been launched into the incident. However Police there were tightlipped about the failure of ranks to respond to the robbery.

Thief shot in Stabroek Market

Bandit nabbed after daring supermarket robbery

City cop and suspected accomplice remanded

A City Constable and a Tower Tech Construction worker were both remanded to prison yesterday for allegedly robbing Electronic City Store in Stabroek Market on Wednesday.

Delmar Booker to the left and City Constable Seon Isaacs to the right.

Appearing before Magistrate Alex Moore, City Constable Seon Isaacs who was stationed at the Stabroek Market Outpost and Delmar Booker, of  15 Jackson Dam, Mandela Avenue, Georgetown are now facing charges of Break and Enter and Larceny.
The duo is alleged to have broken into Stabroek Market stall, Electronic City, between last Wednesday and Thursday and stole a number of cell phones and electronic items to the value of $2,968,000.
They were not allowed to plead to the indictable offence because the prosecution did not apply the Administration of Justice Act (AJA). According to the prosecution, the two accused are currently being investigated in a matter of a similar nature at La Penitence Police station.
Based on reports Isaacs, of lot 21 West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was on duty dressed in a white shirt and black pants when he was seen with Booker pilfering the items out the building.
Bags were seen outside of the stall. The matter was subsequently adjourned until April 29 and they were remanded to prison.
According to police reports Booker was shot in his leg after he refused to surrender his weapon at the scene. He was later arrested and a haversack containing a number of stolen items was retrieved as evidence along with tools used in the break-in.

And the man was recently married. A young Indian life cut short by rabid PNC bandits.

Recently-wed store owner gunned down by bandits

-body run over by car 
A young store owner from the island of Wakenaam on the Essequibo River lost his life after he was shot during a daring daylight robbery and then run over by a passing motorcar at Robb and Alexander Streets, Georgetown yesterday.
Twenty six-year-old Mahendra Persaud, of Lot 22 Good Success, was pronounced dead

Mahendra Persaud recently wed his sweetheart, Parvena

on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital, minutes after he was picked up from the roadway.
The police in a statement yesterday said that about 10:45hrs, Persaud was with his driver in a vehicle when he was attacked by a man armed with a firearm. The man demanded a bag with money that Persaud had in his possession.
According to the police, Persaud put up resistance and a struggle ensued during which he was shot to the neck. He subsequently fell on the roadway and in the process, was run over by motor vehicle, PVV 3157.
This newspaper was told by eyewitnesses that a licenced firearm holder who was in proximity, exchanged gunshots with the gunman, who subsequently managed to escape on a waiting Honda CG motorcycle ridden by an accomplice. It is believed that the bandit was shot in the process and fled leaving the bag with cash behind.
Investigators are convinced that Persaud was trailed by the bandit and his accomplice, who waited for the right opportunity to strike.
A police source, informed this publication that Persaud had previously visited two stores and was about to visit a third when he was confronted by the bandit. He had in his possession approximately $700,000, the source revealed.
The bag with the money was reportedly recovered by the police.
The police, after examining CCTV footage, said that they were able to identify the bandit and are making every effort to have him arrested.
Meanwhile, the driver of the car that ran over Persaud, took him to the hospital and later vanished, leaving the vehicle in the hospital compound. It was reported that he subsequently sent another man along with a mechanic to switch the licence plates on the vehicle. The two men were caught in the act and were arrested.
While they were handcuffed and sat at the back of a police pickup, one of them told media operatives that he was unaware of the incident. He continued that he was just parked next to the mechanic when the police approached him and said that he was involved in the death of someone.
Persaud’s aunt, who was at the hospital, told media operatives that her nephew, who got married just over a month ago, would usually come to the city to buy goods to take back to the island where he and her father ran a general store together. She stated that there were several attempts made in the past, but never to this extent.
When this publication contacted Persaud’s wife Parvena by telephone yesterday, she recalled that her husband left the Essequibo island at around 07:00 hrs for his usual trip to the city to purchase stocks for his business.
With him was his driver and trusted friend. The woman said that sometime around 11:00 hrs she received a telephone call, informing her that her husband was shot. She was advised to prepare herself to travel to the Georgetown Hospital where they had taken her husband.
But as she was about to leave her house she received the dreaded call that her husband had succumbed and she should no longer travel.
“It’s only about two months now since we got married…..I have to try,” Parvena Persaud cried.
She said that her husband’s driver is still in shock after seeing his close friend gunned down and he could not have done anything to help him.
“He said that by the time he got out of the car, they had already shot my husband and a car ran over him; he could do nothing,” Parvena Persaud told this newspaper.
A post mortem examination is to be performed on Persaud’s body today.

Looks like Glen Lall got a new enemy as PNC bandits lash back at Kaiteur employees.

Bandits rob, terrorise family of Kaieteur News staffer

–    $1M reward posted for arrest of perpetrators
Kaieteur News publisher Glenn Lall has posted a $1M reward for information that can lead to the arrest of three bandits, who terrorised and robbed the family of one of his staffers, after invading their Little Diamond, East Bank

The window through which the robbers gained entry.

Demerara home at around 03.00 hrs yesterday.
Victorine Narine and her two daughters, aged 26 and 18, along with her mother, were bound and placed to lie on the floor, while the robbers, armed with two handguns and a cutlass, ransacked their home.
The elder daughter was also struck in the face with a handgun.
The intruders, who also feasted on snacks and beverages, eventually escaped with an undisclosed sum of cash and jewellery.
Mrs. Narine’s husband, who is a Kaieteur News employee, was not at home when the attack occurred.
The robbers gained entry by prising out a grill from a window in the bottom flat of the two-storey property.
Victorine Narine said she was asleep in her bedroom when she was awakened by her eldest daughter’s screams. Mrs. Narine said that she immediately realised that intruders were in the house.
“I came out (of the bedroom) hollering, because I knew what had happened,” she said.
On running into the hallway, she was confronted by a masked man with a cutlass. Two other men with handguns held her eldest daughter and mother. They also brought the 18-year-old daughter from her bedroom.

One of the ransacked rooms.

She said that the robbers immediately ordered them to hand over their cell phones, and also disabled the landline. They then began demanding money and jewellery, while repeatedly asking about the whereabouts of “the man for the house.”
One of the robbers struck the eldest girl with his firearm. They then ordered the women, including the 18-year-old, to lie on the floor.
The men spent about an hour ransacking the rooms, and also eating, before escaping with money, jewellery, the victims’ cell phones and other valuables.
Detectives later lifted a number of fingerprints from the scene, but up to press time, had made no arrests.
In the wake of the robbery, Kaieteur News publisher Glenn Lall said that he was putting up a $1M reward for information that would lead to the arrest of the perpetrators.
He can be contacted on telephone number 624-6456, and assured that the identities of those providing information would be kept confidential.

For a small country Guyana sure has a lot of crime under the PNC/AFC.

Missing bridesmaid’s body discovered in trench with throat slit

Mere days after leaving home to collect a package coming from her son’s father in Mahdia,

Simone Hackett (inset) Undertakers remove the body in the presence of curious onlookers.

23-year-old Simone Hackett’s partially decomposed body was yesterday discovered in a trench parallel to the University of Guyana Road, at Fourth Field, Cummings Lodge.
The discovery was a grim confirmation of her relatives’ worst fears, after the woman went missing on Saturday night.
Hackett’s body was found by two schoolboys who were passing by the area and were overwhelmed by a putrid stench. Curiosity got the better of them and upon checking the corner of the trench they made the gruesome discovery.
Her body bore marks of violence, indicating a clear case of foul play.
According to reports, Hackett’s throat was slit and there were what appeared to be two stab wounds to the back and neck.
She was clad in the same outfit she had left home with and her jewellery was intact, leading relatives to speculate even more that robbery was not the motive, but that it was cold-blooded murder.
Commander of the police ‘C’ Division Marlon Chapman told this newspaper that the case is being treated strictly as a murder.
It is suspected that Hackett was killed elsewhere and her killer(s) dumped the body in the location that it was discovered.
Investigators are now trying to locate one of the dead woman’s male former acquaintances, in the hope of obtaining some vital information surrounding her death.
Kaieteur News had reported that the now dead Hackett was missing since Saturday night. She had left her ‘C’ Field, Sophia home between 20:00 and 20:30 hrs to collect a package sent from Mahdia by her “child-father”. According to the woman’s mother, she had received a phone call from her “child-father” at around 18:00h, instructing her to meet with one “Dexter”, an individual who was supposedly bringing the package from Mahdia.

The woman’s distraught stepmother collapsed at the scene and had to be revived.

Relatives told Kaieteur News that she left to meet “Dexter” at the Mahdia Bus Park, but the meeting place changed and instead she went to the Railway Embankment at UG Road. They last heard from her while she was waiting there.
Hackett’s mother had said that she last received a call from her daughter at 22:10 hrs, but her daughter wasn’t saying anything and she heard background noises as though she was in a moving vehicle.
Hours later after she did not return home, relatives tried calling her cell phone continually, but kept getting voicemail.
Early Sunday morning, relatives went to the Turkeyen Police Station and lodged a report. They said that the Officer in charge after taking their report immediately sent out an all station message.
The search continued until yesterday when the discovery was made.
Upon arrival at the scene where the body was found, family members became hysterical and wails of anger filled the air.
Some of the dead woman’s relatives could be heard saying, “Is he do it! He gon pay for this!” These statements were allegedly in reference to the father of the dead woman’s toddler son. The woman’s stepmother collapsed at the scene and had to be revived; another relative made a desperate attempt to get to the body and had to be restrained by a police rank.
Kaieteur News understands that as recently as one week ago, Hackett’s “child-father”, who is reportedly in Mahdia, had issued threats of killing her over custody of their son who recently turned three years old.
Relatives of the murdered woman also stated the man’s mother and sister knew of the threats, and they were also alleged to have issued threats to Hackett.
Kaieteur News understands that investigators at Turkeyen had contacted their counterparts at Mahdia on Sunday, with a view to locating Hackett’s child father, after she went missing.
According to reports, the police at Mahdia quickly detained the man and questioned him, but he reportedly denied knowing about her whereabouts.
He reportedly gave all assurances that he wouldn’t do anything to harm Simone Hackett, claiming that the last contact he had with her was at 18:00 hrs on Saturday, and that the bearer of the package was a friend he knew from a previous job in the gold mines.
He stated that the friend, “Dexter”, hails from Pomeroon, Essequibo, and that after he called Hackett to pick up the package, he tried calling “Dexter”, but the individual’s cell phone was turned off.
Police subsequently released him, as Hackett had not been officially missing for more than 72 hours.
The now dead woman was scheduled to be the maid of honour at her sister’s wedding on Sunday. The wedding went on nevertheless, but under a cloud of despair and uncertainty.
Yesterday Hackett’s distraught father Gerald Hackett lamented the fact that he had just “given away” one of his daughters and now he will be burying another.
“I care fuh me children. I always say let they bury me before I bury them. Was a wedding fuss, is a dead now,” he cried.
He too believes that his daughter’s child-father could shed some light on how she died.
“Is he caused her to go out to pick up the package, so I think the police need to look at the child-father; that’s my take on it,” Gerald Hackett told members of the media.

‘Child father’ confesses to ‘Maid of Honour’ killing

– murder stemmed from jealousy, custody fight
He reportedly plotted the killing carefully, even travelling back to the interior to give himself an alibi, but this was not enough to stop detectives from implicating  Clevon Hamilton to the brutal murder of his reputed wife, Simone Hackett.

Prime suspect: Clevon Hamilton

Police yesterday revealed that Hamilton, who was detained on Wednesday at Mahdia, has admitted to slitting Hamilton’s throat and dumping her remains in a trench at Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara on Saturday night.
Kaieteur News understands that the suspect, known as ‘Quarter’, has said that the killing stemmed from jealousy and because of Hackett’s refusal to give him custody of their son.
Police yesterday escorted the alleged killer back to the scene, where he pointed out the area where the murder occurred.
Detectives have taken statements from a bus driver and conductor, who had transported the suspect from Mahdia to Georgetown on Saturday.
“We also have phone records, which we will be using against him to further strengthen our case,” Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said. Police are also seeking to contact a taxi driver who took Hamilton to and from the East Coast of Demerara.
Simone Hackett’s fate was sealed on Saturday, when she allegedly received a call from Hamilton, who said he was sending out a package, containing cash and gold, from Mahdia.
Hamilton allegedly instructed her to collect the ‘package’ from an associate of his called ‘Dexter.’
Relatives told Kaieteur News that she left to meet “Dexter” at the Mahdia Bus Park, but the meeting place changed and instead she went to the Railway Embankment at UG Road. They last heard from her while she was waiting there.
During his interrogation yesterday, Hamilton reportedly told detectives that he travelled out of Mahdia

Dead: Simone Hackett

by bus on Saturday morning. He then stayed at a hotel and when night fell, he contacted a taxi driver, who took him to Cummings Lodge. After asking the driver to wait, Hamilton, who had a cutlass in a haversack, then met Simone Hackett.
The suspect allegedly said that the two had a heated row over custody of their son. He was also jealous and angry over some of the things she was doing, and “couldn’t take it any longer.”
The suspect allegedly stated that he sneaked up behind his ‘child mother,’ then choked his victim before inflicting the fatal wounds.
Leaving the murder weapon near the body, Hamilton allegedly then returned to Georgetown in the same taxi. He then returned to Mahdia.
Hackett’s mother had said that she last received a call from her daughter at 22:10 hrs, but her daughter wasn’t saying anything and she heard background noises as though the daughter was in a moving vehicle.
Relatives tried calling her cell phone continually, but kept getting voicemail.
They were particularly concerned, since she was scheduled to be the Maid of Honour at her sister’s wedding on Sunday. It was also the day that her son was celebrating his third birthday.
The relatives managed to contact Clevon Hamilton in the interior, and they questioned him about Hackett’s whereabouts.
Hamilton then went to the Mahdia Police Station where he professed innocence about Hackett’s fate. He was released after providing the police with a statement.
On Tuesday, two boys on their way to school spotted Hackett’s partially decomposed body in a trench at Fourth Field Cummings Lodge. Her throat was slit and she had been stabbed three times to the back and neck. She was clad in the same outfit she had left home with and her jewellery was intact. Police retrieved a black-handled cutlass from near the body.
On Wednesday, police apprehended Hamilton at Mahdia and escorted him back to Georgetown.
Relatives had alleged that a week prior to her death, Simone Hackett had received threats to her life over the continuing child custody dispute.
Police are to seek legal advice on the case today.

Bulletproof vest saves disarmed cop during arrest attempt

An officer attached to the Guyana Police Force received injuries following a confrontation with an alleged bandit.
According to Commander of ‘B’ Division, Assistant Commissioner Ian Amsterdam, police ranks were conducting routine patrols in the Rose Hall, Corentyne area when the suspect, Keon Thompson commonly known as “Mad Dawg,” of Canje, was proceeding on the public road, and began acting in a suspicious manner.
The ranks then attempted to search the man who began resisting arrest. A scuffled ensued between the alleged bandit and one Constable Clarkson, and the suspect managed to disarm the rank of his .38 revolver and began firing several shots. One of the shots reportedly struck the Constable, but luckily he was protected by his bulletproof vest.
The man then made good his escape into the Reef backlands area on foot. Unconfirmed reports revealed that Thompson is wanted for questioning in connection with a number of robberies in the Corentyne area.
Investigations are currently ongoing.

Drug addict kills 75-yr-old mom

Residents of Good Faith, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, are trying to come to grips with the gruesome murder last night of a 75-year-old woman, allegedly by her 53-year-old son.
Cecelia Madray was discovered lying on her blood-covered floor with a wound to the head at around 20:00 hours, by members of the area’s Community Policing Group (CPG). Her son, who is said to be a drug addict, was also in the house and he was promptly taken into custody.
Reports reaching this newspaper stated that the CPG members were contacted after neighbours heard a commotion in Madray’s house.
When the CPG members went to the house and called out for Madray’s son, they got no answer.
They were left with no other alternative but to break the door to get in. Once in, they made the shocking discovery of the elderly woman lying on the floor covered by a mosquito net.
Kaieteur News understands that when questioned, the dead woman’s son told the CPG members that she fell on the steps on Tuesday. However, the CPG members found no trace of blood on the stairs to support the man’s story. They observed that the woman’s body was still a bit fresh.
While news of Madray’s death, allegedly at the hands of her son, was shocking, it came as no surprise to many, since she had suffered repeated physical and sexual abuse.
According to a police source, Madray’s son was arrested and spent four days in the Mahaicony Police Station lock-ups after it was alleged that he had raped his mother. However, the source said that the woman refused to give the police a statement so that he could be charged and placed before the court.

Gunmen drink milk, coconut water during one-hour home invasion

Six gunmen early yesterday stormed the home of a popular rice farmer/miller at Toevlugt, West Bank Demerara. At the end of an almost hour-long ordeal, the masked invaders, who were armed with three guns and three knives, escaped on foot with six laptops, eight cell phones, gold, diamonds, televisions, medical instruments and two firearms.
The robbery occurred around 02:00 hrs and the bandits used the heavy rain to their advantage as they broke one of the windows at the home and then ripped open the grillwork.
The victim, Deo Rupee said that the ordeal has left him and his family traumatized, but he is thankful that the men made no attempt to harm anyone.
“When I came out of my room, they greeted me with guns and knives. The first thing they said to me was that they wanted my guns and I told them that I will give them everything, but they can’t hurt anyone,” Rupee said.
He explained that he gave the men his two weapons and then called out for his children and parents one at a time from their rooms.
“They put us in the master bedroom and one of them with a gun was in the door. They were searching the house. They took everything that is valuable,” the man said.
The rice farmer said that the men took their time and thoroughly searched the property. “They tumbled all the rooms and everywhere.”
Rupee said where he is living; he does not have any neighbours.
“I told them (the bandits) from the start that I will cooperate, I even told them that I had money in my pants pocket,” the man said.
“These men had time. They were even drinking coconut water and milk while searching,” the rice farmer said. He added that the men locked their maid’s door from outside so that if she heard any strange sounds, the woman wouldn’t be able to investigate.
The woman is residing in a structure adjacent to Rupee’s home.
The rice farmer’s house does not have surveillance cameras, but the man is in the process of setting up such facilties.
According to the businessman, he has already supplied the names of two persons to the police whom he suspects were a part of the robbery.
Investigations are ongoing.

Chinese national robbed of $$M on Church Street