Teen shot at in Angoy’s Avenue carjacking

Dec 01, 2016 News 0 Comments

Kalicharan Sookchan

Police are on the hunt for several persons who allegedly carried out a carjacking around 20:00hrs on Tuesday in the vicinity of Angoy’s Avenue.

The car bearing license plate number PTT 6559, a white Toyota Fielder wagon, was stolen from Kalicharan Sookchan, also known as ‘Amit’, 17, of 98 Sheet Anchor Village.

This publication was told by the young man that he dropped off the owner of the vehicle Shawn Nandlall, in the vicinity of Pitt Street, New Amsterdam and proceeded to drive towards New Street, New Amsterdam, when he heard someone calling his name.

He stopped to talk with the person, a male individual, and when asked whether he was at the time working private hire with the vehicle, Sookchan responded in the negative. He however picked up the man, who told him that he had to collect a girl in Angoy’s Avenue area.

“The man say he got to go and pick up two girls in the scheme,” Sookchan stated. He said that he took the man to his destination and was asked to wait.

“Me had to wait for five minutes, then two other man with he come in and say ‘yeah, leh we go to main road, turn’, when I turn back one ah dem put one gun to me another one start choke me and tell me get out the car, and one start tape up me hand and me mouth”.

According to Sookchan, the man whom he picked up then drove the car to a bushy area not far from where they were.

“Dem get me in a bush and me start holla and them fire a shot at me”, he said.

Sookchan stated that the men began to question him. “Dem ask me where me from and who me ah live wid and me tell dem lie because me nah trust them”.

The men then took the car, reportedly to a nearby gas station, while one remained guarding the teen in the bushy area.

He said he knew the men went for gas, because they had to call the one perpetrator that was with him to inquire how to open the gas tank. “Dem call dat one to ask me how fuh open de gas tank because the cable nah work, it seize”. He said he refused to tell them and the man with him fired another shot, after which he then told them how to open the tank.

Sookchan said the man waited with him in the bushes for over three hours then decided to leave. “He seh he fed up wait and get passion and gone”.

The teen managed to free himself and went for help.

Dog food vendor critical after beating from restaurant owner

Dec 01, 2016 News 0 Comments

The incident reportedly occurred outside this restaurant

Investigations are continuing into the beating of an 18-year-old vendor by a 33-year-old Chinese national over the selling of dog food. The victim is in a critical condition.

The incident occurred on Tuesday around 18:45 hrs in the vicinity of the Lim Kang Restaurant of Main and Chapel Streets, New Amsterdam, Berbice.

According to information, the victim Osarin Stuart of Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme, East Canje, Berbice, began selling dog food not too far from the restaurant.

This move infuriated the accused Kam Sing called “Lim Kang”, who would also sell dog food apart from other commodities.

The accused reportedly emerged from the restaurant with a baby in his hand and accosted the teenager about him still selling his dog food in proximity to the restaurant.

Kam Sing subsequently returned inside the restaurant where he left the baby.

He came out again and an argument ensued and the victim armed himself with a piece of wood but subsequently dropped it and walked away.

The suspect is said to have then picked up the same piece of wood and dealt the victim several lashes to his head and left leg.

The victim collapsed and was picked up in an unconscious condition and rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he was treated and later transferred to the GPHC for immediate attention.

Thieves burgle Alberttown grocery store, escape with $1.5M, DVR

Dec 02, 2016 News 0 Comments

Proprietor of Dev Grocery and Variety Store on Albert and Sixth Streets, Alberttown, went to his

The door that was broken by the perpetrators.

business place yesterday morning only to find that it had been broken into and more than $1.5M in cash and stocks, missing.
The perpetrators took the businessman’s DVR (Digital Video Recorder) with them, making it difficult for investigators to identify the culprits.
Devindra Gangaram explained that when he went to open his variety store around 07:40 hrs yesterday, he noticed that a few items were scattered on the floor when he opened the shutters on the front door of the store.
Upon investigating, Gangaram found that the back door of his store had been broken while a surveillance camera, pointing in the direction of the back door had been turned upward and a piece of card board had been placed around a bulb that is situated next to the camera.
It is unclear how many men raided the store but investigators said that there might have been more than two persons. The robbery is believed to have occurred some time between midnight Wednesday and Thursday morning.
The businessman said that he left his store some time around 23:00 hrs on Wednesday. “When I come to open, I see things on the floor and the back door open.” No one reported hearing any noise.
Gangaram said that the men escaped with cash, phone cards, milk, cigarette, baby lotion and chocolates among other items.
It was the third time in three years that the businessman’s store had been burglarized. Anyone with information of the robbery can contact Gangaram on 618-3575.

Captured suspect identified in five robberies

Dec 03, 2016 News 0 Comments

Police have detained a 25-year-old man who has been positively identified in at least five recent robberies.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said that the suspect was arrested in Robb Street and has been positively identified as having participated in five robberies which occurred near various wharves.
The suspect and two others were charged in 2011 for carting off $5M from the Regional Democratic Office at Linden.
It was alleged that the robbers used a gas cutting torch to open a canister in which the money was kept after holding a security guard at gunpoint and severely beating him.
They were each released on $500,000 bail.

Suspects arrested shortly after robbery

Dec 03, 2016 News 0 Comments

Quick action by the police has led to the arrest of two suspects, minutes after they committed a robbery at the Meadow Bank wharf at Ruimveldt, Georgetown around 00:45 hrs yesterday.
During the process of arresting the men, one of them sustained gunshot wounds to both legs. He has been identified has 40-year-old Nazeem

(Above) The gun that was recovered from the bandits
(Below) One of the suspects who was apprehended

Benie of Bushy Park, East Bank Essequibo.
He is hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). Another suspect has escaped.
According to information received, three men, one armed with a handgun stored the Wild Caught Fresh Fish Depot at the Meadow Bank wharf and held the supervisor, Shane Robin at gunpoint. Robin was gun-butted and the men took a camera, DVR, a radio set and other articles.
Kaieteur News understands that a public-spirited citizen witnessed the robbery and called the police, who responded and confronted the men as they were leaving.
During the confrontation, one of the unarmed suspects was shot to both legs and the other with the firearm ran in the depot and concealed himself in the ceiling.
He was however extracted and ranks recovered an unlicensed 9MM pistol with eight live rounds from him.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) in a release said that the third suspect managed to escape and efforts are being made to have him apprehended.
The suspect who is in custody is a 25-year-old resident of Fifth Avenue Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
The son of the Depot’s owner, Kevin Jettoo said that he was informed that bandits broke into the business after midnight.
Jettoo said that it was one of several robberies that the business entity has been subjected to recently.

Brazen bandits shoot, rob man in Finance Ministry compound

Dec 07, 2016 News 0 Comments

… after trailing him from City bank

Two brazen gunmen stormed the Ministry of Finance compound on Main Street, Georgetown

John Brian

around 12:55 hrs yesterday and shot a 29-year-old man, who they had reportedly trailed from a City bank.
The bandits escaped with $3M in cash in a white Toyota Premio, bearing registration number, PSS 4570.
The victim has been identified as John Brian, a contractor. He was shot to the upper left thigh and was receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) up to press time.
According to information received, the robbery took place just after the victim left a bank on Water Street, Georgetown where he made a withdrawal.
In an interview yesterday, the wounded man said that he took out $3M from the bank to make a payment to BK International for Readymix concrete.
“I took a bus so that no one would follow me from the bank. I came out on Lamaha Street and was walking. The road was clear and I see these two people walking behind me fast and I suspect that they going and rob me so I start run,” the injured man said.
He further explained that he ran into the Ministry of Finance compound but the men followed him and opened fire.
“They come in and pick up the haversack with the money and they run out. The security guards (in the Ministry) were scared and they ran away,” Brian said.
The Guyana Police Force in a press release said that ranks retrieved a spent shell from the scene. No arrest has been made as yet.

East R/veldt man shot with arrow, beaten, chopped and left for dead on Issano trial

Dec 10, 2016 News 0 Comments

Police have launched an investigation into an incident which has left a 30-year-old resident of East Ruimveldt, Georgetown nursing serious wounds at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Reports reaching this newspaper indicate that Orin Baptiste, of 343 East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was shot with an arrow, beaten, chopped and left for dead on a trail at 14 Miles Issano, Upper Mazaruni, Region Seven.
The man is said to have ventured into the interior two months ago seeking employment.
While details surrounding the incident remain sketchy, Kaieteur News understands that the injured man was subject to an attack and beating by a group of men.
A source close to the investigation noted that the man suffered injuries to both arms as well as a gash to his left knee cap which was almost severed.
“He seems to have lost a lot of blood because of the multiple chop wounds,” the source explained.
Hours after he was left on the trail, Baptiste, a father of one, was found and airdashed to the city for medical attention.
Up until last evening, Baptiste was a patient of the Emergency Unit of the hospital, awaiting surgery.

Bandits rob cops at crime scene

Dec 10, 2016 News 0 Comments

It doesn’t get more embarrassing than this.
Two police ranks became robbery victims at around 11:55 hrs yesterday, while investigating a crime in the city.
A police release stated that the unarmed cops were preparing to retrieve video footage at a Georgetown business location, with respect to an ongoing investigation of a recent crime, when two men attacked the ranks and the proprietor.
The robbers relieved their victims of valuables which included cell phones and a wallet, before escaping on a motorcycle.
Shortly after, acting on information, ranks apprehended a male suspect on Middle Dam, East La Penitence, with a haversack containing two cell phones belonging to the proprietor, a bank card, an identification card and a wallet belonging to one of the ranks.
The other robber is still at large.

Four armed men rob Eccles fishery

Dec 11, 2016 News 0 Comments

A number of employees of International Fisheries Limited located in Eccles Industrial Site, East Bank Demerara, were left traumatized after four armed men robbed them around 14:00hrs yesterday at the fish plant.

The building in which the robbery occurred.

According to one employee who asked to remain anonymous, he and a colleague left the main fish plant to have lunch nearby another building in the same compound. During that time his workmate was using two cellular phones. After eating, the two men returned to the fish plant.
When they were about to enter the building the four men pounced on them, forcing them into the main section of the building. The man said that one of the men immediately asked his colleague for the two mobile phones he was just using.
“They seh pass de phone pass de phone. He seh he aint got no phone. Then de man seh a see you with two phone just now.”
Based on this, the employees believe that the men were in the yard for some time observing them. Giving this theory more credibility was the fact that the men were covered in dried mud. Further, the section from whence the men apparently emerged is covered in thick bush.
When the robbers detained about five employees in the plant, they began demanding money, jewellery and cellular phones. According to the same employee, two of the men were armed with guns while the remaining pair had cutlasses.
He said that one of the men asked a female employee, “Whey de bag deh, and she hold on pon de bag and dem pull out de money. And then dem come and search up everybody. Dem search up the girl and cuff she and when dem done, dem tek de cutlass and lash up on de table.”
At that time, a customer visited the complex and was also robbed of her valuables. When they made their escape, the men locked the Security shutter which could only be opened from the outside.
The woman from whom the bandits took the money said that she heard the commotion when the men entered the building but was not sure what was happening. When approaching the front of the complex she saw a signal from one employee but did not understand what it meant.
“Dem a show me sign, but like me nah understand what dem ah tell me so by time me could run back the boy see me turning back.”
She said, too, that while turning back she wondered that if she should hide, and the bandits found nothing to take, they might have taken out their frustration on the other employees and hurt them.
“Meh turn back. When me turn back, he come to me with the cutlass. He knock de cutlass and he said come give me de money. Me seh arite and he go in the bag. He nah find no money in the bag so he knock the cutlass again and me go in me bag. Me had $100,000 wrap up. That was me personal money wah me seh me woulda buy me thing dem for Christmas.”
She said that the entire ordeal did not last more than five minutes. “As dem come suh, dem hurry, hurry fuh de money.”According to the other employees, it’s the fourth time that the business has been robbed.

For those with aspirations to retire in Guyana or have a winter home, think again.

Four masked men on Saturday morning robbed an overseas-based Corentyne, Berbice, pensioner and his domestic worker at his Salton, Corentyne home.
The men gained entry into the two storied house, owned by Veerasammy Narainasami, also called “Fedi”, by placing a bench on two tables to reach the bedroom window on the upper flat.

The 67-year told Guyana Times that he was in his bedroom watching television and at about 12:45h he went to the bathroom and upon returning to his bedroom, he was confronted by the men.
“I spent like about 15 minutes and going back when I open the bedroom door, ah brace up with four men; one with a gun, one with a cutlass and two with nothing. They start to rough me up and asking ‘where is the money, where is the money’. I tell them that all the money I get is in the pants, so one of them go and take out the money and they still asking, ‘where is the rest’, and I tell them that I don’t have more,” the pensioner related.
He said the bandit who was carrying the cutlass started lashing him using the flat side of the blade, demanding that he hand over more money.
The pensioner, who displayed marks on his body including a cut to his head, said all of the men were masked.
He related that the ordeal lasted for about 25 minutes, adding that the men placed a gun to his head and threatened to kill him if he did not give them more money.
The former building maintenance engineer, who arrived in Guyana on December 3, said he tried to explain to the thieves that he is in the habit of borrowing money from friends whenever he is in Guyana and repaying when he returns to New York.
After relieving the pensioner, the bandits then turned their attention to his domestic help, Samantha Williams, who was asleep in another room.
“Dem ask me if I know which side this man does put his money and I tell them that is not my business and I don’t mind his business, then the one with the gun ask me, ‘where is me money’, and ah tell him look on the table and then he look and see the light on the phone under the sheet and the pull it away from me and then he put his hand on my breast and then he go out the room,” the woman related.
She said she was too shaken to get out of bed and locked the bedroom door after they exited her room.
Williams was relieved of a cellular phone worth $4500 and $3000 in cash while Narainasami was relieved of US$300, G$5000, two cellphones and two torch lights.
Police arrived about 30 minutes after the incident and dusted the louvres for fingerprints.
An investigation has been launched. Narainasami, who left Guyana in 1985, has been returning over the last five years to spend the winter period in Guyana. (Andrew Carmichael)