Construction worker wrestles carjacker in trench

Oct 13, 2016 News 0 Comments

… as accomplice escapes with car
An alleged carjacker was arrested yesterday after a 54-year-old construction worker had wrestled him into a trench at Non Pareil, East Coast Demerara, and then tied him to a utility pole around 12:30 hrs.

Garfield Griffith

As the two men were fighting, a second accomplice escaped with Garfield Griffith’s car, bearing registration number, HB 4955.
Griffith, a father of three, recalled that he was having lunch in his car that was parked in front of a construction site when two young men rode up to him on a bicycle and asked if there was any vacancy, to which he responded in the negative.
“The car was on, because I was charging the phone. The other construction workers were at another building sheltering from the sun and then these guys come. I tell them that it doesn’t make sense I hire them and I don’t have money to pay them,” Griffith said.
He recounted that the men then left and a few minutes later, he spotted one of them heading in his direction on foot.
“He come and ask me for a crescent (adjustable spanner) and I tell him that I don’t have, and he walk and go behind the car. I was looking at him (through the rear view mirror) to see what he was doing. In that (mirror), I see the next one come back on the bicycle, and both of them come and ask back for work,” the victim related.
He added that the men told him that they badly needed a job.
“While talking to one of them, the next one walked on the bridge and he took a bottle with liquid out his pants and rushed up to me and throw it in my face. Like he was aiming for my eyes, but it go in my mouth.”
Griffith said that he immediately jumped out of his vehicle and grabbed the suspect next to him and the two of them started fighting. They ended up in the trench.
“I choked him in the trench, but while I had he, the other one jump in the car and drive away. I couldn’t loose the one I had, because I woulda risk losing both of them,” the Crane, West Coast Demerara resident said.
He explained that when he overpowered the suspect in the trench, the man tried to make a deal with him—let him go and he would tell him where his accomplice took the car.
“When we in the trench, people start coming out and we tie he to a post when I bring he out,” the man said, while adding that the residents dealt the young man several lashes with nearby cement blocks. “I never see block (cement) loose up like how it loose up on that man.”
Griffith says that he lost money, his driver’s licence, bank card and other documents.
A report was made at the Vigilance Police Station, where the suspect remains in custody.

Gold miner’s body found in shallow grave

Oct 14, 2016 News 0 Comments

The body of a 24-year-old man was found buried in a shallow grave at 14 Miles, Port Kaituma, Region One, on Wednesday.
The dead man has been identified as Abraham Mohamed Khan of Bartica.
Police suspect that the young man was killed during a robbery, since his motorcycle and other belongings were missing.
One man has been arrested as the investigation widens.
A police source explained yesterday that ranks received information on Wednesday that a body was discovered at 14 Miles, Port Kaituma. When the ranks got there, they found Khan’s body in a shallow grave. On examining the body, a wound was discovered on the head. It is suspected that the man had been struck with an object.
Reports are that the incident occurred around 17:00 hrs on Monday.

Look how innocent he look, Granger might just free him as he so sweet.

CCTV footage of man attacking Montrose granny shown in court

Oct 14, 2016 News 0 Comments

Video footage of a man sneaking into the home of Danrasie Ganesh and attacking her on the day

MURDER ACCUSED: Collin Alleyne

she was found dead in her home was shown to the court, when the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the matter continued in the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court.
Collin Alleyne, 23, of Timehri Cemetery Road, East Bank Demerara is currently on remand for the capital offence
The battered body of 77-year-old Ganesh also known as Carmen was found in her Montrose, East Coast Demerara home, on August 1, 2015, by relatives who went to check on her after she failed to answer neighbours’ calls.
The gruesome murder was captured on surveillance camera.
It was reported that Ganesh’s killer, believed to be Alleyne, clubbed her on the head with a tyre wrench and dragged her into a corner, where she collapsed.
It was then that the killer wrapped a hand-towel around her neck, kicked and stomped the old woman until she lay motionless.
Alleyne was captured three weeks after the murder at Guyhoc Park, Georgetown. He reportedly told detectives that a male relative of Ganesh made him $700,000 to kill the old woman and steal documents pertaining to her property.
At the court hearing, Detective Sergeant Julio Jonas, who is stationed at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown was called to tender footage of the gruesome murder which was captured on Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras. He was also called to tender video footage of Alleyne confessing to the crime at CID Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown.

MURDERED: Danrasie Ganesh

The unrepresented accused, who in the past had behaved disorderly in court, sat calmly in the prisoner’s dock as the videos were being played during the morning session. However, the case was adjourned to the afternoon session after the Magistrate documented minutes.
During the afternoon proceeding, the accused was visibly upset at the evidence being shown to the court and did not hesitate to show his objections. Alleyne blurted out a series of expletives.
Magistrate Ally-Seepaul then ordered that the accused be escorted out of the courtroom , and adjourned the PI until January 9, 2017.
At the last court hearing, Detective Inspector, Cedric Gravesande was called to testify. Inspector Gravesande gave evidence in relation to a confrontation he had with Alleyne at CID Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown. At the time of the murder, the police witness told the court that he was the Officer in Charge of crime at the Sparendaam Police Station.
Upon completion of the witness’s testimony, Alleyne declined to cross-examine him.
Police Prosecutor David Goodridge has since indicated that Detective Sergeant Rodwell Sarrabo would be his final witness.

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Brazilian killed during robbery

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Businessman nabbed with 2kg cocaine at Albion

Guyanese on edge over perceived crime spike – NACTA poll

The population at large feels like sitting ducks, with a crime contagion raging through the country, despite the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) continued reports of a significant decrease in criminal activities.

Dr Vishnu Bisram

This is one of several findings of an ongoing opinion poll being conducted by the North American Caribbean Teachers Association (NACTA) on current issues.
The poll is being conducted by New York-based political scientist, Dr Vishnu Bisram, who has been conducting opinion polls in Guyana, Trinidad and the greater Caribbean region since 1990.
The Police’s claim that crimes are down is of no comfort to the Guyanese population which reported feeling a sense of unease and insecurity.
According to the respondents in the poll, crime is the number one problem facing the nation.
“Many say “people are falling like flies” or “by the wayside” over what is viewed as a rise in murders, robberies, and violent criminal attacks. They also express concern over the increase in drug use. And the business community, in particular, is fearful of the crime situation, saying it has impacted on their business activities; they do not agree with Government figures showing crime on the down side,” Dr Bisram analysed.
He explained that people in general are worried, constantly looking over their shoulders, thinking whether they will be the next victim of a robbery.
The latest survey interviewed 710 registered voters of which 43 per cent were Indians, 30 per cent Africans, 17 per cent Mixed, nine per cent Amerindians and one per cent others at random. The poll’s margin of error is four per cent.
Almost everyone (90 per cent) said crime is the most important problem facing the nation and some 70 per cent said Government measures have not been effective at combating crime.
Many people say a lot of crimes go unreported because of a lack of confidence in the Police Force and their purported slow response to reported criminal acts as well as an extremely low detection rate.
People do not feel that the Police will protect them and are of the view some Police are themselves involved in criminal activities.
Also, because of the socio cultural stigma, certain crimes are not reported.
In a recent VoxPopuli conducted by Guyana Times, persons expressed that they feel unsafe even in their own homes because of the worrying crime situation.
On the other hand, the GPF recently announced that serious crime deceased by 21 per

Woman shot in mouth denies lover was gunman

Oct 17, 2016 News 0 Comments

A 26-year-old woman has come out to defend her lover, who is being accused of shooting her in the mouth two Saturdays ago at John Fernandes Squatting Area.
Shevon Harry was hospitalised at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation for almost a week after being shot.
Some had identified the woman’s lover as the shooter.
Neighbours insisted that they saw her lover fleeing the scene after shooting her. One woman even alleged that the man broke her bridge as he was escaping on his motorcycle.
But in an interview yesterday, Harry claimed that the gunman was someone she has never seen before.
She described him as a “light skinned man” who was wearing a blue jersey. But she has no idea why someone would want her dead.
The 26-year-old victim is claiming that her neighbours who implicated her lover are only gossiping.
Shevon Harry alleged that shortly after 12:00 hrs on October 08, her ‘child father’ called and asked if he could come by for lunch, to which she agreed.

Shevon Harry

“He eat and then he left. Me and my daughter were eating and then she went in her room. I went in her room to see what she was doing and when I was coming out I see this man standing on my landing and I jumped because no one was there before.”
She said that before she could have said anything, the suspect fired a shot at her and then escaped.
“I didn’t know I was shot and when I saw blood, I didn’t even know where I was shot.”
Neighbours claimed that after the shooting, Harry’s estranged partner told her to wash out her mouth under a tap.
But she claimed that after she was shot, she took a taxi and went to the hospital.
She claimed that her lover did not visit her while she was hospitalised. However, he called to find out how she was doing after she was discharged.
“He called and ask me how I was doing and he said that he want to come but the news that he shoot me was all over and he asked me is what I put him in now,” the woman said.
According to Harry, the man did not tell her where he was at the time and is yet to visit her.
Kaieteur News was told that the near-fatal confrontation allegedly occurred after the victim, a security guard, accused her spouse of impregnating another woman.
Neighbours said that around 14:50 hrs, the man visited Shevon Harry, and an argument ensued in the yard.
He then allegedly shot her in the mouth and escaped.
Residents told this publication that the woman has been a constant victim of domestic violence. A neighbour said that she was sitting outside when the suspect passed on his motorcycle.
She added that about 10 minutes later, she heard an ‘explosion’, but didn’t pay too much attention since she thought children from the neighbourhood were playing.
But then her son came and said that Harry’s ‘child father’ had shot her in the mouth.
“I see he tek off with a speed on the motorbike. He fly pass me house and headed through the dam for Shirley Field. He even break my bridge”, the neighbour recalled.
She said that the suspect’s younger brother went into Harry’s yard and “washed down” the blood.
Another woman noted that the suspect is a very abusive and controlling individual.
This newspaper was told that the police are still trying to question Harry’s partner as it relates to the shooting.

Shallow grave murder…Cops locate slain miner’s ATV, release colleague

Oct 17, 2016 News 0 Comments

Investigators from the Guyana Police Force (GPF)’s Major Crimes Unit have taken over the case of a 24-year-old man who was shot dead during an alleged robbery at 16 Miles, Bartica last Tuesday and then buried in a shallow grave.
Abraham Mohamed Khan of Third Avenue, Bartica was slain around 18:000 hrs while he and a colleague were on their way to Bartica with gold they had ‘washed down’ from their camp earlier in the day.
The colleague who has been identified as Albert Junior Abrams was released from police custody on Saturday.
According to information, the two men were on their way to Bartica on an ATV when two gunmen came out of the bushes and opened fire at them.

The ATV that was recovered

Dead: Abraham Mohamed Khan

Khan, who was the rider, allegedly fell off the bike after a bullet struck him to the neck.
According to reports, the survivor claimed that the two bandits collected the bag with gold and tied him up to a tree.
“He claimed that when they tied him in the bush, he hear when they leave on the ATV. He said that a lil while later, they come back and loose he,” a police source said.
The source further explained that the bandits untied him and told him to continue his journey on foot.
Kaieteur News was told that the ATV, in which the men allegedly escaped on, was found abandoned the following day about six miles from Bartica.
Investigators are said to be double checking the story provided by the survivor.
Both men were working with a gold miner identified as Roy Kissoon

Man knifes reputed wife to death

Oct 18, 2016 News 0 Comments

Police in B’ Division are currently on the hunt for a 40-year-old cane harvester of Skeldon Estate, identified as Winston Benjamin called ‘Blood’, after he allegedly stabbed his former fiancée to death yesterday afternoon, around 14:00 hours, at a shop in Ulverston Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
Dead is 38-year-old Yansen Brush, a mother of four and a canteen operator of 20 Ulverston Village. The woman reportedly worked at the Alness Primary School.
When Kaieteur News visited the scene yesterday afternoon and spoke to Beverly Green, the proprietor of the shop where Brush met her demise, the woman confirmed that the incident happened on her premises.
“Yansen came into the shop and less than a minute Benjamin walk in and I see Yansen move aside. So me ask wha happen to y’all two and Yansen reply and said “Girl meh fed up quarrel and sin meh soul…God and the law gon deal with he.’”
This apparently incensed Benjamin who whipped out a knife and plunged it several times into Yansen.
Green said that she grabbed on to the man through an opening in the shop counter in a bid to keep him from escaping, while a bleeding Yansen staggered to the side of the shop.
Benjamin managed to wriggle free from Green’s grasp with the weapon still in his possession and flee the scene.
Meanwhile, the sister of the now dead woman, Roxanne Brush, who lived with her sibling, disclosed that her sibling left to go to the nearby shop.
“I was going upstairs when I heard screaming and I start to run because I recognized my sister’s voice. When I run in the shop I saw the shop lady holding on to Winston and I saw my sister at the side standing and bleeding and I hold on to her and she told me she na gon mek it, and she collapsed.”
Residents in the area told Kaieteur News that Brush and Benjamin, who were not living together, shared a turbulent relationship. It was revealed that three weeks prior to the stabbing, Benjamin had threatened Brush with a cutlass after she refused to give him $2000.
She eventually gave into his demands and he left.
According to police sources, the attacker fled into the Ulverston Backdam.

Female shop owner murdered in Mahaicony

Oct 18, 2016 News 0 Comments

– Bound body found in bedroom
– 14-year-old helper arrested
By Romila Boodram

Bibi Nesha Shairoon (inset) home.

The bound body of a 56-year-old woman was found in her Lot 4 Novar Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara home around 06:30 hrs yesterday, almost two days after she had been killed during what police say was a robbery.
The victim has been identified as Bibi Nesha Shairoon, a mother of three. She had been living at the property for more than 25 years. Up until her death, she was operating a grocery at the two-storey building where she lived alone.
A teenager, who was sent to the property to check up on Shairoon after neighbours informed her relatives that they had not seen her on Sunday, found the woman’s swollen body in a pool of blood on her bedroom floor with her hands and feet tied.
The woman was last seen around 20:00 hrs on Saturday.
A police source said that after examining the body, it seemed as if the woman was killed Saturday night. Investigators suspected that she was struck to the head with an object after she put up a fight.
A hammer which was found at the scene was sent to the crime lab for testing to determine whether it was used in the murder.
While it is not clear how many persons committed the act, the cops believe that it might have been two suspects, who gained entry into the building by ripping a few boards from the lower section of the shop, which is attached to the front of the house.
Kaieteur News understands that a number of valuables were missing from the shop, some of which include cellular phones, music sets, phone cards, and money among other items. The entire house was ransacked.
A 14-year-old boy, who assisted the woman in her yard and shop, was taken into police custody after the discovery was made, since he was the only one who was familiar with her home and her movements.
Apart from that, this newspaper was told that someone broke into the woman’s home about four months ago and stole a quantity of phone cards from her microwave—for that robbery, the woman had suspected that it was her teenage helper, since he knew where she hid the cards.
Relatives suspect that the person who robbed her months ago might have been the one who killed her Saturday night.
“A random person won’t just go in the microwave and take the cards. He had to know that she usually hide the phone cards there,” the woman’s relatives claimed yesterday.
When this newspaper arrived at the scene, detectives were still gathering evidence and interviewing neighbours.
The dead woman’s sister, Shauna Ally explained that a neighbour called her yesterday morning and informed her that they had not seen her sibling since Sunday. She did not open her shop and a padlock was on her gate.
“I sent a lil boy and tell him to call for her and if she ain’t answer, let him jump the gate and go in. And when the boy jump the fence, he walked at the side and saw the back door open. When he go into her room, he see her hands and foot tied,” Ally recounted.
She said that the teenager ran out of the house and went straight to her home, which is located a short distance away and informed her.
“When we come, we see her lying there. Her body was swollen and it didn’t even look like her,” the woman related.
One of the victim’s sons, Zaheer Waheed, explained that he was on his way to a worksite in the city from Timehri when a relative called and informed him that something had happened to his mother.
“I know she was a little sickly, so right away I drive towards Mahaicony and saw her body,” Waheed related. He recalled that he last heard from his mother a few days ago and everything was fine with her.
Meanwhile, shock, disbelief and anger were some of the emotions that were expressed by residents of the village yesterday when they learnt that the woman had been murdered.
“Imagine I live right next to her and didn’t hear anything. Nothing at all, no screams, no knocking or anything,” one woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said.
She explained that they would usually see Shairoon feeding her ducks and watering her plants, but when they did not see her on Sunday, they suspected that something had happened to her.
“When she is going out, she would lock the gate from outside, but we see the padlock on the inside so right away we suspect that something had happened to her,” the neighbour said.
As the investigation continues, the cops are looking for a second suspect, and an individual who was involved in an argument with the woman a few days ago.

Gunmen raid Diamond supermarket

Oct 18, 2016 News 0 Comments

Five armed bandits robbed the Hua Supermarket located on the Diamond Housing Scheme main road at Lot 521 Section ‘A’ Block ‘X’, taking an undisclosed sum of cash, phone cards and other personal items, yesterday.
One staffer, who wished to remain anonymous, told Kaieteur News he was reading a newspaper in the yard of the supermarket around 11:00 hours, when the gunmen, who arrived in a white Toyota Corolla motor car, entered the yard and shouted “this is a robbery”.
The staffer further explained that he and another employee dropped to the floor as the gunmen entered the building. The man added that one of the armed intruders instructed all the employees to go in to a bond located in the premises.
The bandits then took cell phones, money and jewellery from the employees.
The employee said that they then began to ransack the storage bond, adding that he was not sure what they were looking for. The man said that the employees were then locked in the bond where they remained for about 45 minutes.
During that time the bandits began to assault a Chinese national, who they felt owned the store. The victim, the employee disclosed, was just a friend of the owner who is also a Chinese national.
The man said his boss was conducting business in Georgetown at the time of the robbery. Eventually the location where some cash was kept was disclosed.
The five armed men, before making good their escape, attempted to cover their tracks by removing a recording device for the security cameras at the supermarket.
The employee noted that the police responded promptly.
Investigations are ongoing.

Two brazen bandits walked into bar, rob 10 men

Oct 20, 2016 News 0 Comments

Less than a month after Commander of ‘D’ Division (ag) Leslie James announced that plans were put in place to combat the increase in criminal activities in Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara (WCD), two brazen gunmen walked into a bar and robbed 10 persons.
This recent robbery has left businessmen along New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop questioning the Guyana Police Force (GPF)’s ability to combat the spike in robberies in that division.
At around 19:00 hrs on Tuesday, two armed bandits stormed the Sun Beam Hangout Bar located at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop and held up 10 men, including the proprietor of the establishment.
The men escaped with more than $100,000 in cash, phones, identification cards, licences, alcohol and at least one car key.
One of the victims, who asked for his name to be withheld, said a group of men were standing around the pool table when a man walked into the bar and purchased $100 in cigarettes.
“Before I coulda tell the man at the bar that this man look suspicious, the one with the gun walk in and tell everybody to lie on the ground,” the victim said, while adding that his experience with the bandits has left him traumatized.
“These men were patting down people from the foot up like they had experience. They took $30,000, my car key and personal items,” the victim said.
Meanwhile, at around 11:00 hrs yesterday at Crane, West Coast Demerara, two bandits robbed a family while they were working on their rice field. They escaped on a motorcycle with $90,000 in cash, medication, cosmetics and other personal items.
The victims have been identified as 57-year-old Ramkissoon Ramnarine, his 56-year-old wife, Indira Ramnarine and their disabled daughter.

Now you cyant even shit in peace.

Five bandits pounce on household from outhouse, kill man, tenant arrested

Oct 21, 2016 News 0 Comments

Five armed bandits stormed a Herstelling, East Bank Demerara (EBD) home, where three overseas-based Guyanese were staying and shot a 44-year-old man to the neck when he put up a fight in the wee hours of yesterday morning.
Abdool Ameer Subrati, a father of one of 21 Back Street, Peter’s Hall, EBD, died while undergoing surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) in a release said, that an investigation has been launched into an alleged robbery committed on an overseas-based Guyanese around 02:00 hrs during which a Peter’s Hall resident was shot to the neck. The 44-year-old man subsequently died.
Investigations so far have revealed that the family, who arrived in Guyana on Tuesday, had a reunion at the Herstelling property. Shortly after guests left, the five bandits, two of whom were armed, pounced on the family.
The gunmen who were hiding in a bathroom at the back of the family yard, escaped with the visitors’ passports, money, jewellery and other personal items.
Kaieteur News understands that investigators have arrested a 21-year-old man who is renting the lower flat of the two-storey house where the robbery occurred.
Yesterday, the victim’s brother, Abid Subrati said that he is convinced that it was the tenant who set up the robbery since he recognized one of the bandits and that individual had visited the tenant, who has been renting the apartment for a year now.
Subrati, his wife and daughter arrived in Guyana on Tuesday.
“This morning (yesterday) my brother (Abdool Ameer Subrati) and my cousin were having a little conversation and then we went to buy food and we come back. They (brother and cousin) were leaving. My brother was going to drop my cousin in Diamond and then he was going home,” the man said.
He further explained that he told his sibling that he would accompany him to Diamond since he didn’t want him to drive out of the scheme all by himself.
“I call my wife and she said she will go for the drive too. Then (Abdool) said that he gun just drop home our cousin and then go straight home. My wife asked him to stay 10 minutes more until we done bathe,” the overseas-based Guyanese recalled.
He said that he went upstairs while his wife proceeded to go to the bathroom at the back of the house.
“When she go to the bathroom, she observed the door like it pull in as if someone was inside and she go to pull it and they (bandits) pushed it and come out and she started screaming and she fall down,” the man said.
He further added that he ran to the back after he heard his wife screaming and when he saw the men, he ran back to get a chopper.
“I fall down the step and one of them telling the other one to shoot me. When I run up, my cousin say is a lot of us and we can give them a fight but after they start shoot, we had to back down,” the man said, adding that approximately six shots were fired.
According to the overseas-based Guyanese, his brother was shot when he tried to put up a fight.
“These people were sent here because when we come here on Tuesday, the tenant was sitting (outside) and my wife had a white bag and when they come, as soon as they got that white bag, they runaway,” the man said.
The gunmen escaped on foot.
The wounded man was rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre before being transferred to the GPHC where he later succumbed.
Investigators are expected to revisit the family home to check surveillance footage in the neighbourhood.

Lone gunman robs vendor at Merriman’s Mall

Oct 21, 2016 News 0 Comments

A vendor at the Merriman’s Mall was yesterday attacked and robbed of his gold chain and band worth

Colin Henry

in excess of $1M by a lone gunman.
This occurred around 07:15 hrs just after Colin Henry finished packing his stall. It would be his first encounter with an armed bandit in his 20 years of doing business at that location.
According to the businessman, after packing his stall, he sat on a chair at the entrance to his business place and was about to pick up a bottle of water when someone instructed him not to move.
“I thought that one of my friends pulling a prank on me, so I picked up the water and then I feel something on my neck,” the businessman said.
He explained that the lone gunman took away his chain and band before escaping in a waiting car. “From how this thing happened, I would say it was a set up with the timings and everything. I went to the market to buy a water and he (gunman) wait until I come back before he come.”
Henry said that his experience with the gunman was terrifying but when he went to seek assistance from the City Constabulary at the market and the Alberttown Police Station, he did not get the support he needed.
He accused one of the female City Constabulary ranks of singing when he proceeded to give her colleague a written statement.
Investigations are ongoing.