Victim of the “Salt Fish” gang accuses police of foot-dragging

Jun 14, 2016 News 0 Comments

After members of the “Salt Fish” gang invaded his home on Saturday night, Michael Basdeo is not satisfied with the Guyana Police Force (GPF)’s attempt to bring the gang to justice; he is accusing the police of dragging their feet.

According to recent reports, Basdeo who resides at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara got the shock of his life when he got out of bed sometime around 05.00 hrs on Sunday only to find that his house was emptied of valuables and his car missing.
Basdeo stated that the perpetrators are part of a gang on the East Coast popularly known as the “Salt Fish” Gang. He said that the gang is a family of thieves who have been doing these types of burglaries for years.
According to him, he noted that the thieves robbed six houses in the same street in one night.
Basdeo said that the gang comprises about 10 siblings whose ages range from 18 to 25 and opined that their mother condones their criminal activities.
The police reportedly arrested the mother of the “Salt Fish” gang but the main members are still at large.
Basdeo told Kaieteur News that while he was able to recover two laptops, some of the other articles are missing, including his flat screen television.
He eventually found his car abandoned in Market Street, Annandale, after it was crashed into about six market stands. After Basdeo discovered his car, he summoned the police and together they went to the home of the suspected thieves. Upon searching the premises, they subsequently discovered several of the stolen articles and more loot from other houses.
“It appeared as if they had a hardware store. There were electrical appliances, auto parts. The police only asked if they had receipts for the items and that was it,”
Basdeo said that he was the one who did most of the investigation and is asking that the police do their part in apprehending the rest of the gang.
When contacted yesterday, Commander of the ‘C’ Division, Marlon Chapman, stated that investigations are currently on-going.

Woman busted at Ogle Airport with three kilos of cocaine

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Juvenile kills man, 50

Jun 18, 2016 News 0 Comments

Teddy De Younge, 50, the labourer who was discovered in an unconscious state by one of his relatives with his face buried in the sand, Sunday night at CAPOEY Mission, died Thursday night at the Suddie Public Hospital.

Teddy DeYounge

He had sustained severe head injuries at the hands of his cousin, a 17-year-old.
The dead man’s cousin has since been sent to the Sophia Juvenile Center on Thursday by Magistrate Sunil Scarce. He was ordered to return to court on June 28.
The teenager was charged with a lesser offence. A possible murder charge is now hanging over his head. He was described as a very troubled and violent teenager by residents of his community.
“Teddy” never regained consciousness after he was struck to his head by the juvenile.
De Younge’s sister said that her brother and his cousin never had any misunderstanding before the altercation on Sunday night.
The DeYounge family also of Capoey, said that Teddy was heading up a hill to his home. Another group of persons headed down the said hill discovered DeYounge lying face down in an unconscious state, and was later transferred to the Suddie Public Hospital where he eventually died.
DeYounge is a father of nine. News of his death has come as a shock to his family. He was described as a willing and loving father and brother.
Meanwhile, a post mortem examination has to be done on the body, before a possible murder charge is instituted against the teenager.

Looks like the people in PNC strong hold continue to deal in drugs.

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Bandits rob woman, 69, threaten to set her alight

Jun 20, 2016 News 0 Comments

A 69-year-old pensioner of Angoy’s Avenue, Berbice, was terrorized and robbed by armed bandits who threatened to set her alight in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Veronica Ballac recalling her half hour ordeal to this publication stated that around 3:00 am, she heard strange noises coming from the kitchen. She said that upon checking, she saw a man crawling into her home.
“When me see de fuss one crawl in, I start holler ‘thief thief’ and all of them run in so I start beg and seh me nah gone scream”.
The woman further stated that the men proceeded to bound her hands and feet and demand cash and gold jewelry.
“Them keep asking ‘way de gold and money deh’ and I telling them seh I don’t have none and because I seh that, one of them had a cutlass and he start lashing me all over with it. Then them start search up the whole house and every time them nah find something they firing lash”.
She mentioned that she had only $20,000 in her possession which she handed over to the bandits. She further added that after finishing their search, the men threatened to set her alight.
“When dem done, de one who had the gun seh ‘we gone throw gasoline on you and light you on fire’ and me start beg and seh no no please don’t hurt me and then them run out and go away”.

The victim’s house

Veronica Ballac stressed that the neighbors contacted the police who arrived about 3 hours later. The distraught pensioner who resides alone stressed that she is now scared for her safety and urged police to conduct a proper investigation.
According to a police source, no arrests have been made up to press time.
The attack was a grim reminder of last January’s murder of 49-year-old Anita Baichan, who was bound by bandits who then set her Plantation Hope, West Coast Berbice home alight with her still inside.
Police investigations led to charges being laid against three young men, aged between 18 and 24.

Spate of heinous murders raises calls for death penalty return

Jun 20, 2016 News 0 Comments

A young man is recorded on CCTV camera calmly beating an old woman to death in her home.
Another woman is bound with duct-tape and burned to death in her residence, and intruders hack a business couple to death a few villages away.
A thief slaughters a mother and two young sons in her bedroom.
The skeletal remains a woman are unearthed from behind a fence in a Campbellville backyard.
A retired professor is bound, beaten, robbed and strangled in his study.
A band of pirates tosses three fishermen overboard after allegedly strapping them to an anchor.
Within the past few months, it’s been one heinous murder after the next, with many of the perpetrators seemingly going to extremes to inflict torture on their victims, even when the victims presented no threat.
Such was the case on August 1, 2015, when the battered body of 74-year-old Danrasie Ganesh,  also known ‘Carmen’, was found in her Montrose, East Coast Demerara home.
Security cameras at the premises later showed a young man repeatedly striking the defenceless Ganesh and calmly walking around her flat.

Battered to death: Danrasie Ganesh,

Butchered: Arthur Rajkumar, 81

Anita Baichan, 49, bound and burnt to death

Some three weeks later, police arrested and charged 27-year-old Colin Alleyne, of Timehri, East Bank Demerara, with Mrs. Ganesh’s murder.
That murder was hardly forgotten when, on Monday January 4, 2016, a gang invaded the Plantation Hope, West Coast Berbice home of 49-year-old Anita Baichan.
Binding Mrs. Baichan and her 28-year-old son, Moshim Khan, with duct tape, the intruders then set the property alight.
About a week later, grocery store owners Arthur Rajkumar, 81, and his reputed wife, Dianne Chamanlall, were robbed, beaten and chopped to death in their Bush Lot Village, West Coast Berbice home.
Police investigations led to charges being laid against three young men, aged between 18 and 24, in connection with both cases.
Rooplall Abrahim, 24, and 18-year-old Gocoul Madanpaul, were charged with Baichan’s murder.
Madanpaul was also charged with Nazamadeen Raffick, who is also 18, for the murders of Arthur Rajkumar, 81, and his reputed wife, Dianne Chamanlall.

Burnt to death in home: Mohamed Munir, 75, and his wife Bibi Jamila Munir, 69

Murdered and buried: British citizen, Dominic Bernard, 18

In late September, 2012, the mutilated bodies of popular bar owner Jennifer Persaud, her six-year-old-old son, Afridi, and 15-month-old Jadon, were found in their Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara home.
Some four years would pass before police would announce that they had solved the case. Last April, police charged 31-year-old Abishai Caesar was yesterday charged with the murders of Jennifer Persaud and her sons.
And on the night of April 19, Mohamed Munir, 75, and his wife, Bibi Jamila Munir, 69, were burned alive in their heavily-grilled two-storey home at Good Hope, West Bank Demerara.
Police believe that bandits set the property alight after the victims raised an alarm.
Neighbours had recalled hearing the couple screaming that intruders were in the house and some even recalled seeing at least two individuals on the couple’s verandah. Police are still to track down their killers.

Murdered and buried in backyard: Babita sarjou

Beaten to death: Pairadeau Mars, 76

The year actually began with the unearthing of a gruesome killing that had happened late in the previous year.
On October 14, 2015, Dominic Bernard, an 18-year-old British national, came to Guyana…and promptly vanished.
On January 8, 2016, Bernard’s decomposed body was found in a shallow grave at Nurney, Corentyne Berbice.
A post mortem showed that he had been clubbed at the back of the head until his skull fractured.
The victim’s 23-year-old god-brother, Aaron Hing, and  24-year-old Staymon George called Sherwin, both of Kildonan Village, Corentyne, Berbice, have been charged with Bernard’s murder.
And it was last May that a heinous murder came to light and a cold case was solved.
That happened when police dug up a woman’s  skeletal remains from behind a backyard fence in Seaforth Street, Campbellville.
The remains are believed to belong to Babita Sarjou, who vanished without trace on November 4, 2010.
The remains were found at the back of the house in which Sarjou’s estranged husband, Shardanand Naraine, called “Anand”, resided.
Narine, and Darryl Ponton, called “Yankee”, were subsequently charged with murder.
On May 12, 75-year-old Pairadeau Mars, a retired professor and remigrant from the US, was found bound, gagged and beaten to death in the study room of his Lot 395 Bissessar Street, Prashad Nagar home.
The following day, police arrested five teens in connection with Professor Mars’ murder. Among them were two girls, aged 15 and 17, and three young men, who have since been charged with murder.

In PPP time this would have been called extra judicial shooting and Ramjattan would have made a fortune defending the criminal.

Robbery suspect with toy gun shot

Jun 20, 2016 News 0 Comments

A man who police said was wanted for several offences was shot in the thigh during a confrontation with lawmen at Scotsburg, Corentyne, Berbice.
Police identified the suspect as Kevin Padmore, 22,  called “Bully”, of Scotsburg , Corentyne.
Kaieteur News understands that he was wanted for armed robbery and other serious offences.
Police in a release stated that about 10:20hrs, ranks at Springlands Police Station received information via telephone that a person who was wanted for questioning in relation to several offences, was in a house at Scottsburg.
A party of policemen searched the house but found no one. However, while searching through the high bushes in the surrounding area, a constable who was armed with a shotgun, came in contact with the suspect.
Police said that the fugitive was shot in the right thigh “during the process of arrest.”
The suspect, on whose person, a toy gun was found, was rushed to the Skeldon Hospital and was later transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital and admitted, under police guard.
His condition is regarded as stable.

Toddler allegedly raped –mother, male friend questioned

June 20, 2016

Armed bandits rampage New Amsterdam homes

Jun 21, 2016 News 0 Comments

A three-man armed gang wreaked havoc in New Amsterdam early Sunday morning leaving the occupants of three homes traumatized.

At least two suspects have been detained by police officials and are assisting with investigations.

Bandits attempted to enter her home.

The first incident occurred around 3:45 hrs. Three men, all masked and armed, attempted to break into the home of 67-year-old Ingrid Sookhan at Lot 31 Budhan’s Scheme.
Recalling the events, the woman said she awoke early and sent her nephew to purchase some eggs at the nearby shop. She added that she gave him the keys to unlock the gate.
“I give him de keys to open de gate and he come back and seh ‘Granny de gate open,’ so I seh how da could be cause I does lock it every night.”
She then stated that she came outside and discovered her front gate open and her gate lock was tampered with. “When I come out me gate open and da latch on the gate ben up ben up”.
Ingrid added that it was not the first time the incident occurred. She said that on Friday last, she was up late waiting on her nephew to return home when she heard a strange noise outside.
“I hear like a bucket kick but me ain’t pay no mind to it. Then next I hear somebody turning de door handle so I think was me nephew suh I decide fah call he name and when I call, them run and jump over the fence.”
Another home was also broken into a few doors away. The occupants were not at home at the time of the incident and nothing was recorded stolen.
Moments later, another family who lived a short distance away suffered at the hands of the bandits. Around 4:30 hours Lot 39 Budhan’s Scheme, Teacher, Oliver Ross, his eight-month pregnant wife and eight-year-old daughter were at home when the bandits struck.
Ross speaking to this publication stated that he was awakened by strange noises.

The home of Oliver Ross that was robbed.

“When I wake up, they already were inside the house. There were three of them; two with guns and one of them with a cutlass. Just one had on mask.”
Mr. Ross further disclosed that the men then demanded cash and jewelry. “They put the guns to we head and seh ‘bring all de money and de gold’. And I tell dem seh we is middle class people striving like everybody else, suh he tell me seh if I ain’t bring it, he gone rape me wife.”
The man further stated that the bandits then dragged his wife by her hair in an attempt to subdue her. “He dragged she by she hair and when I get up and pull she away, one of them fire a shot and I realize that they mean business. They spend like about five minutes searching and ransacking the place then they left.”
Ross stated that upon escaping he tried to take his car but was unsuccessful. He stressed that unavailability of proper roads in the area contributed to the bandits escape.
“We called the police but at the back here don’t have a proper road, they had to stop out where the road end and walk the rest, giving the guys enough time to get away.
Government needs to provide road and light for us here because people’s lives are in danger. These criminals don’t care about nobody life now”.
According to Commander of ‘B’ Division, Assistant Commissioner, Ian Amsterdam, disclosed that the bandits carted off $78,000 and a number of household items.
The Commander disclosed that over the past week, they recorded four robberies in which a firearm was used and seven break and enter cases.

E’bo man arrested for incest

Jun 21, 2016 News 0 Comments

A Charity, Essequibo Coast man was arrested by police attached to the Charity outpost recently after his teenage stepdaughter indicated at a forum, that she was a victim of sexual molestation by her stepfather.

The man was hauled in for questioning and was released after he was placed on station bail.
According to reports, the teenager was attending a meeting at the Charity secondary school where she is a student, and while been exposed to discussions related to children who are being sexually molested, the child apparently indicated by raising her hand.
A teacher of the Charity secondary school then took the child to her office and similarly listened to her complaint and then informed the child’s mother before lodging a formal complaint with the police at Charity. The man was then arrested and later placed on station bail.
It is however still unclear whether the police are seeking advice from the Director of Public Prosecution of whether the child’s mother has taken the route to make up the matter.

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Spate of heinous murders raises calls for death penalty return

Jun 20, 2016 News 0 Comments

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They should bring back the Death Penalty. 

Burglars ransack Bath Settlement homes

Jun 23, 2016 News 0 Comments

Burglars on Tuesday ransacked two homes located at Bath Settlement, West Berbice leaving the families traumatized. Both owners were not at home at the time of the incident.

The ransacked home of teacher, Melissa Hamilton.

The bandits first targeted the home of 66-year-old Amaran Sukhi of Lot 1340 Block ‘D’ Bath Settlement. The woman relayed to this publication that she left her home at 6:00 am on Tuesday and returned home at 2:00 pm and discovered that her gate was damaged.
“Me come in and see meh gate bruck. Suh me go upstairs and meh see me door open and all ova tumble up. Every single room dem search up”. Ms. Sukhi stated that she had nothing of value in her home so the bandits searched and left.
Mrs. Suhki’s immediate neighbours also suffered at the hands of the thieves. This time, it was the home of teacher, Melissa Hamilton, who was at work when the bandits struck.
According to her mother, Dolly Fausett, she recieved a call from her daughter who stated that she came home around 21:00 hrs and discovered her entire house ransacked. “When she call me, I called the police and when they come, they say that the back door was broken. Like they come from the back door”.
Fausett said that the only thing missing from the home was a laptop computer valued $90,000 and a tablet valued $20,000. She also praised the officers at the Fort Wellington Police Station who arrived in a prompt manner.
According to information received from neighbours, they saw no suspicious activity in the area.
This has been the fifth recorded break-in in Berbice for the past week. According to police sources, for the year thus far they have recorded over 13 break and enter cases.
No arrests have been made. Investigations are ongoing.