I know this guy. He use to come to my house to change my money. I pray for his safety.

This govt is a joke.

Berbice Bridge robbed

The Berbice River Bridge may very well be rethinking its decision to lower their fare after the company was hit with a $5M robbery on Wednesday.
The take included both cash and cheques.
Reports are that around 06:00 hrs on Wednesday, operatives at the  De Edward, West Bank Berbice River end of the bridge were in the process of making a deposit  at the nearby Republic Bank when they were robbed by a lone gunman with a hand gun.
According to Chief Executive Officer of the Berbice Bridge Company, Omadatt Samaroo, the Supervisor was in the vicinity of the Republic bank and had just exited the vehicle to make a deposit into the safety deposit box when a lone bandit appeared and pointed a gun to her head and demanded she hand over the cash that was in two night deposit bags.
The man grabbed the bags from the startled employee, jumped the bank fence and escaped in the nearby cane fields.
It is not sure if the BBCI staff was accompanied by any security detail, however people in the vicinity stated that none was available.
It was a regular practice by the BBCI not to have security details accompany their employees when they are depositing money.
It is understood that security details at the Bank who are usually unarmed scampered for cover, some hiding under tables when they saw the man with the gun.
The matter was reported to the police who responded promptly and scoured the area. A man was subsequently nabbed in the vicinity and is in custody. He is said to have been seen with a change of clothes.
Investigations are continuing.

APNU stronghold Linden appears to be a safe haven for criminals as they use the town as a staging area for robberies. 

Lindeners charged with $$M armed robberies

Three Lindeners were yesterday remanded to prison after they pleaded not guilty to charges of armed robberies, when they appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Nicolai Carmichael, 22, of Lot 28 Blueberry Hill, Wismar Linden; Dexter Mc Calmont, 22, of Lot 103 Block 22 One Mile, Wismar Linden and Khalil Mustafa, are accused of robbing Shawn Bissoon of a Bedford truck valued $12M, fuel and other items to the value of $14,160,000—property of Julius Ferreira.
The men were further accused of robbing Bissoon of a cell phone and cash.
The trio was alleged to have stolen a $37,000 gold band belonging to Lakeram Shabdar during the robberies.
The incidents were allegedly committed at gunpoint on October 3, at Mabura Access Road.
Carmichael, Mc Calmont and Mustafa pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Mustafa and Carmichael were charged with two other armed robberies.
It is alleged that the two men, while armed with guns robbed Marlon Bissoon  of a Bedford Truck, several barrels of diesel, gasoline and hydraulic fuel, a quantity of beverages and two ladders—total value of $15.2M property of Ryan Ferreira.
The last charge alleged that the men also robbed Marlon Bissoon of a cell phone and $35,000 in cash while brandishing a gun. The two men denied both charges. Police Prosecutor, Corporal Deniro Jones objected to them being granted their pretrial liberty on all charges.
The Prosecutor’s objections were upheld by the Magistrate, who wished the men a Merry Christmas before ordering them remanded. They will make their next court appearance on December 30, at the Linden Magistrate’s Court.

Don't worry, the emperor will pardon them and order their release if they are found guilty. They might not even be charged, seeing most of the money went to the PNC as a fund raiser.

Sophia man shot during robbery December 25, 2015 By GuyanaTimes A Sophia resident was in the wee hours of Christmas Eve shot when he was attacked by a lone gunman who relieved him of a bag containing alcohol and clothing. Lloyd Scott, 34, of B Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was shot and injured to his left foot and hand by the perpetrator. He was admitted a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital. According to information, Scott was on his way home when he was attacked by the gunman who demanded valuables. Scott reportedly put up a fight but the gunman discharged two rounds hitting him twice. Scott reportedly raised an alarm and persons ran to his rescue. He was taken to hospital where he was admitted. The police have launched an investigation into the incident.

Missing Berbice money changer found murdered December 25, 2015 By GuyanaTimes Dead, Mohamed Baksh Dead, Mohamed Baksh Four days after a Berbice man went missing, his body was found along the 63 Village Seashore, Corentyne, Berbice. The discovery was made at about 07:00h. Mohamed Baksh, 56, of Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, was reported missing on December 21. Following the discovery, a post mortem performed by pathologist Dr Vivekanand Brijmohan proved he suffered a fractured skull. The autopsy showed that he died as a result of haemorrhage and shock. The money changer was last seen by relatives at around 08:05h on Monday last, when he reportedly received a call indicating that some elderly people wanted to change some foreign currency. He had indicated that he would be back in two hours and left home. After time elapsed and he did not return home, his relatives attempted to contact him via hone but the calls went unanswered. They subsequently made a report to the Springlands Police Station. The police are treating the incident as murder. Several persons have been questioned in relation to murder including relatives of the dead man.

 

Harbour Bridge shooting victim still unidentified

December 28, 2015

 

THE body of the passenger who was fatally shot in a minibus that was crossing the Demerara Harbour Bridge on Boxing Day is yet to be identified, but police are zeroing in on his assailant.Reports reveal that a minor argument between two men inside a minibus making its way over the Demerara Harbour Bridge to Georgetown resulted in a passenger being shot to death while a bullet grazed Special Constable Randolph Williams, 27, who was sitting two seats in front of the gunman. Williams has been treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.

The slain man was shot in the head and was pronounced dead on arrival at the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital.
The killer, described as being about five feet, eight inches in height, sporting dreadlocks and carrying a blue haversack, calmly left the scene.

The incident happened at about 18:00 hours on Boxing Day while the minibus was heading from the West Coast of Demerara to Georgetown.

Williams, who was in the seat behind the driver, recalled that the row between the two men began when the suspect asked the other to shut a window, since it was raining. The row reportedly continued as the bus was heading to the eastern end of the Harbour Bridge, and the driver eventually stopped the vehicle and told the two men to disembark.
However, after exiting the bus in the rain, both men immediately rejoined the bus. The victim subsequently opened the window, but the suspect slammed it shut.

Shortly after, passengers heard a gunshot. This was followed by a second shot, which grazed the Special Constable, who resides at Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara

Two dead, three hospitalized following brawl

Two men are now dead after a row reportedly over a woman turned ugly outside a popular Manchester, Corentyne night spot on Sunday night.
The two dead men are Mark Simon of Liverpool, Corentyne and his friend Kempton Gray of Alness, also on the Corentyne.
Simon was hacked to death outside the night spot during the brawl. But although Gray was present during the brawl, the circumstances surrounding his death, a few hours later, are unclear.
Three other persons were hospitalized.  They are Bhiron Robertson, called “Bouse” 31, and Samuel Fraser, called “Charlie”, 32, both of Liverpool, and Gary Tyndall of Courtland, Corentyne.
According to information the fight broke between the now dead Mark Simon and Bhiron Robertson who were both involved in a relationship with a woman called Ann, or “Fluffy Tail” of Alness.
The woman, it is understood, had a relationship with Robertson before moving on to Simon. She subsequently left Simon and went back to Robertson.

During the night she was reportedly partying with her old “fling”, Simon, when Robertson turned up around 23:30 hours.
A heated argument ensued and both men armed themselves, Simon with a cutlass and Robertson with a knife. They began inflicting injuries on each other, forcing other persons to intervene, some to part while others joined in the fight.
Simon reportedly bled profusely from his injuries and died on his way to the hospital.
His rival was chopped about his body and is in a critical condition in the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Gray who was part of the melee reportedly assisted in taking Simon to the Port Mourant Hospital.
At the hospital, he was reportedly pointed out to the police as one of the persons involved in the fight.
Gray, obviously wanting to avoid being taken into custody, hurriedly left the hospital.
It is believed that he was attacked while heading home early after the incident.
No one could say exactly how Gray got his injuries but investigators revealed that they got a call from an unknown caller, informing them that an injured man was in a yard at Clifton.
When they went to the yard they found Gray lying on a step in the yard with injuries to his body and breathing faintly. He was rushed to the hospital by the police.
Gray’s father, Garfield, told this newspaper that he was at home when he received a call from his son, informing him about the brawl.
The man said that his son also informed him that he was leaving the hospital since he was fearful of being attacked or arrested.
The elder Gray stated that sometime around 02:00 hrs he received another call from his son who told him that he was in the vicinity of Tain and Bloomfield and was coming home. The man said that he told his son, “Boy, suppose something happen to you”.
He subsequently got a call around 05:00 hrs that the ambulance had just taken his son to the hospital and that “he deh bad.”
The man said that his son succumbed not long after.
He stated that when he visited the mortuary he observed that his son had a stab wound to his abdomen, a cut on his hand and a blow to the back of his head.
Police are questioning one of the injured men who they believe could shed some light on how Gray met his death.
At Simon’s home, his family declined to comment. They received a call about the incident and subsequently learnt of his death

Murder accused escapes from New Amsterdam Prison

A manhunt is underway in Berbice to recapture murder accused Neshan Jagmohan, who escaped from the New Amsterdam Prison sometime on Sunday.
Kaieteur News understands that Jagmohan, a remand prisoner, was discovered missing when a check was made on his cell in the solitary confinement block of the prison on Sunday night.
Prison officials could not be reached for a comment, despite repeated calls from this newspaper.
However, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed that the police have joined in the search for the murder accused.
A source told this newspaper that investigators are trying to ascertain how Jagmohan managed to cut his way through a steel grill to escape.
Jagmohan was committed to stand trial for the murder of businessman Devindra Deodat, called Dave, on October 7, 2013 at Hampshire Squatting Area, Corentyne. He was initially charged for the murder with his older brother, Ramnarine.
Deodat, the owner of Cool Runnings Trucking Service, was chopped and shot dead after a group of masked men stormed the grocery shop which he and his wife, Mala, 29, operated. The bandits also chopped Deodat’s wife in the head and shot her father, Rafeek Abdul, 47, in the left arm.
During the murder/robbery, two of the three attackers were allegedly unmasked, allowing the victims to identify them at a subsequent identification parade.
Both Neshan Jagmohan and his brother are known to the authorities, and according to investigators, one of them was released from jail the same day that Deodat was slain.
During the robbery the assailants managed to escape with $560,000, a gold band, a laptop computer and a cell phone.

The wanton imbibing of alcohol is being blamed for yet another murder, this time at Supply, Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara, where an uncle is in custody for stabbing his nephew to death.
Sheldon Richards, a 43-year-old labourer was killed around 15:10hrs on Sunday, after a heated, drunken row with his mother’s brother just outside his house. His death was the second domestic murder on the East Coast of Demerara for Sunday.
Police in a statement said that Richards and another man who is his relative were imbibing at his home at Supply, Mahaica, ECD, during which an argument ensued. Subsequently, Richards is reported to have struck the other man to his head with a piece of wood and the man retaliated and stabbed him to his chest.
The police said that Richards was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, while the suspect was treated and sent away, and is in police custody assisting with the investigations.
No one could say what started the argument between the two men, but for Richards’ mother Doreen Rajoo, the incident has “divided my heart in two.”
According to Rajoo, her son, a known alcoholic, who does odd jobs in the neighbourhood lived with her, while her brother visits from time to time. She said that although the killing took place just outside her yard while she was inside, she cannot say what started the altercation.
“I was at home, but me been in me bedroom lock-up. I don’t know, I can’t say nothing, nothing where dem is concerned, because when he (Richards) come and he drunk, me does go in an lie down,” Rajoo told this newspaper.
Neighbours also could not say what led to the fight, except that after stabbing Richards, his uncle raised an alarm, resulting in several persons rushing to the scene.
But Richards appeared to have died before anyone could have provided any assistance to get him  medical attention.
For Rajoo, Richards is the second of her nine children to have died within a year—last year she buried her eldest son. She was consoled yesterday by members of the Cops and Faith Community Network (CFCN), which included Pastor Nirmaldeo Sarwan, who lamented the use of alcohol.
Following a brief prayer session with the bereaved family, Pastor Sarwan urged that there is no retaliation and a repeat of Sunday’s incident. He prayed against alcoholism, which has been blamed for a lot of the violent behaviour among young men, and said that Richards’ murder should be a lesson to the community. He said that he was heartened by the fact that the dead man’s mother has placed her faith in God to see her through the period of grief.
Apart from Pastor Sarwan, the Cops and Faith team included Pastor Ganesh Nauth, Police Sergeant Sharmain Clark and Corporal Jermaine Tyndall.
Meanwhile, Pastor Sarwan led another Cops and Faith team to Bare Roots, Bachelor’s Adventure yesterday, where they met with the mother and other relatives of Kevon George who was also stabbed to death on Sunday morning. He expressed similar sentiments there and stressed the need to curb violent behaviour among young people.
Post mortem examinations were performed on both bodies yesterday and the perpetrators are expected to be arraigned in court soon.

Duo cons woman out of $1.6M for house lots

A West Bank Demerara woman is calling on persons to be on the lookout for a couple that goes about claiming to have “links” to getting house-lots, with the intention of fraud.
Nazeema Persaud, of Swan Street, Klien, Pouderoyen, is claiming that she was approached by a woman in Bartica who told her that she had “links” to get house lots on West Coast Demerara.
Persaud said that she was sceptical at first but the woman, who identified herself as “Sandy”, was accompanied by a well-dressed male who showed her a business card, claiming that he was a lawyer.
Persaud stated that by the end of the discussion she was completely convinced.
“When I come out of the bush I sometimes give she a $200,000, a li’l $50,000 you know, how much I could afford. She does give me receipts so I never like suspect anything. I give she $1,560,000 in all. Is when I ready to come out back for Christmas I couldn’t find her,” the teary eyed Persaud said.
After making a report at the Vreed-en-Hoop police station, Persaud stated that she was not satisfied with the police efforts to locate the woman who goes by various aliases, so she decided to take matters into her own hands.
She received word of the duo’s location and upon investigating she found out that the male accomplice was not a lawyer but really a construction worker who resides on the East Bank Essequibo.
After inquiring from neighbours, she was told that the couple moved out weeks before Christmas and are currently in Trinidad.
However, Persaud stated that the two were seen in various parts of Vreed-en-Hoop walking about freely.
She said that she has given up all hope of getting her money back, but is calling on other persons to be aware of the smooth-talking duo that usually targets “girls working in the back dam”.
“Them collect money from two other girls but because them (girls) does do certain work in the back dam, they don’t want talk,” she said

Guyana has become a crime haven and business is brisk for criminals under PNC part 2.

It is advisable for overseas Guyanese to stay away from Guyana for their own safety.

Lone gunman robs Onderneeming businessman

An Onderneeming, Sandpit shop owner would be relieved whenever the police manage to arrest and prosecute a lone masked gunman who attacked and robbed him of a gold chain and an undisclosed sum of money, Sunday night, at his premises.
The gunman, who escaped, may have further intentions of launching another attack on the shop owner or other persons in that area.
According to reports, about 10:30 PM Sunday, a police officer who resides in the area received a report from the owner indicating he was attacked and robbed.
According to information, the shop owner and his wife closed their shop and took a walk. They returned to their home only to be confronted by the gunman who was apparently waiting for the shop owner who ventured behind his yard to pick up a sheet from the line.
The gunman, the report added, then proceeded to challenge the shop owner before stripping him of a gold chain and an undisclosed sum of money before escaping.
A report was lodged with the police at the Suddie police station who responded.
Members of the policing group in Onderneening, Sandpit area, are asking the Minister of National Security to engage the group and to make an attempt to resuscitate the group which could be of better service to the police.
(Yannason Duncan

Man’s body dumped at GPHC

Looks like the public taking the law into their own hands as the incompetent afc/apnu continue to mismanage the nation's security.

Wanted for businesswoman’s murder…Escapee’s body found in Demerara River

The body of Robin Maxwell Thomas, who broke out of the Mackenzie Police Station on December 8 with alleged accomplice Stafrei Alexander, has been found in the Demerara River.

Officials said that Thomas’ badly decomposed corpse was found in the vicinity of West Watooka, near the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge, about a week ago.
But he was only positively identified about a day ago after detectives matched the victim’s thumbprint to prints of Thomas they have on record.
Kaieteur News was told that police were unable to ascertain the cause of death due to the badly decomposed state of the corpse. Thomas was said to have provided police with information about the murder for which he and three others were charged.
The victim’s mother, Cheryl Hilliman, told Kaieteur News that a policeman visited her West Ruimveldt home at around 21.00 hrs on Monday. She said that the rank informed her that her son had drowned, and gave her two phone numbers for the Commander of ‘E’ Division. She said that yesterday, she contacted her brother who called the ‘E’ Division Commander.
“He called the Commander and he (the Commander) say it is my son (who was dead), and they said that they know it is him from his thumb print.”
Relatives were told to visit the Georgetown Public Hospital mortuary today to see the body.
Thomas’ mother said that he has a scar under the right eye and a birthmark on his left buttock.
Robin Maxwell Thomas, 22, of West Ruimveldt, and Stafrei Hopkinson Alexander, 30, of Lot 129, Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt, broke out of the Mackenzie Police Station on December 8. The men reportedly escaped by smashing a hole through a cell wall. Thomas and Alexander along with Aiden Bowen, of Blueberry Hill, Wismar, and Anthony Primo, 29, of 153 Laing Avenue, were charged for the April 4, 2015 murder of businesswoman Shevon Gordon, who was shot near her One Mile, Linden premises.

Assistant Police Commissioner David Ramnarine, who was acting as Crime Chief at the time, had told Kaieteur News that “not enough vigilance was exercised” by the on-duty personnel.
Ramnarine said that according to information, the ranks were in the Enquiries Office at around 02.00 hrs and when they checked the lockups they observed a hole in the concrete wall.
“For anyone to dig a hole in a concrete wall, is that they went in there with some instrument, and it sends a message that they were not searched, and that their cell was not searched,” he said.
“It is clear that there was a supervision problem and that enough vigilance was not exercised. I know that there will be an investigation.”

Corentyne man killed

A Corentyne resident was questionably the country’s first reported murder victim. He was killed just ten minutes into the New Year.
The celebrations were just beginning to soak in when it was reported that one man was stabbed to death following an altercation with one of his drinking partners.    Dead is Asif Hafeez, 24, a labourer of Lot 72 Grant 1780, Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice.
The situation started from a misunderstanding between the couple who lived in the upper flat of a two-storey apartment.
The alleged killer, a relative of the dead man’s wife, lived in the lower flat.
According to information, Hafeez and his wife had just returned from an Old Year’s Night party next door when an argument erupted between them.

It is alleged that the woman’s relative downstairs got involved and Hafeez reportedly promptly told him to “mind his own business”.
This infuriated the situation and the two men became involved in an argument.  Hafeez reportedly went downstairs and an altercation began during which he was stabbed in the neck by the other man who was reportedly under the influence of alcohol.
The injured man was picked up and taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. After committing the act the perpetrator walked out of the yard and has not been seen since. Investigations are ongoing.

Another afc/apnu low level drug pusher sacrificed while the Granger administration continue to be in bed with the drug lords. 

Surinamese national busted with cocaine

Thanks to alert ranks at the Moleson Creek Ferry terminal, a Surinamese national was intercepted yesterday with a quantity of cocaine in his possession.

According to the police, the man, who has been identified as Gordon Wensley Lino, was busted around 09:00 hrs while he was an outgoing passenger.

The 40-year-old man of South Ruimveldt, Georgetown and Mangrase Straat No.2 Paramaribo was caught with more than one kilo cocaine.

Kaieteur News was told that ranks requested to search the Surinamese national after observing that he was acting in a suspicious manner. Upon further investigation, it was revealed that the man had the cocaine taped around his body.

The arrest was made by Constable Mark Fraser. Investigations have so far revealed that Lino was working for a man, who traveled to neighbouring Suriname yesterday morning via the backtrack route.

There are reports that the man left Guyana with a quantity of cocaine. Investigators determined that yesterday’s bust was a trade between Guyana, Suriname, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Aruba.

The remains of the house where Anita Baichan was duct-taped and burnt alive by bandits yesterday (Clifford Stanley photo)

BURNT TO DEATH – bandits rob, torture hapless victims

January 3, 2016

 

POLICE are investigating an incident in which a West Berbice mother of two was burnt to death in her home in a fire set by bandits in the aftermath of a home invasion and robbery early yesterday morning.The dead woman has been identified as Anita Baichan, 49, a cash-crop farmer of Plantation Hope, Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice.

Neighbours at the scene after the robbery, arson and murder

After the robbery and the setting of the house on fire, Baichan tried to escape from the building, but could not because she had been gagged and bound hand and foot with duct tape by the two bandits during the robbery.

Her son Moshin Khan, 23, was also beaten and terrorised by the bandits for over two and a half hours. He, too, was gagged and duct-taped, but somehow managed to escape the raging inferno that engulfed the house.

But by the time he had freed himself and rushed to save his mother, it was too late.

Neighbours said Baichan was a quiet and cheerful person.
She was the mother of two children: Moshin, a carpenter, and a daughter whose name was given as “Natasha,” who is currently overseas.

The robbery and subsequent arson and murder occurred between 02:00 hrs and 04:30 hrs yesterday.
According to Khan, he and his mother, the only occupants at home at the time, were awakened by the two armed men who gained entry into their house. The two men, one armed with a cutlass and the other with two knives, tied and gagged them both before demanding money.

They handed over $250,000 and some silver jewellery, but the robbers were unsatisfied and demanded more.

“They keep searching the house and then coming back and beat us, then they went searching the house again.”

The bandits “broadsided” Khan and his mother with a cutlass.

After the long torture, one of the bandits told them that they were leaving, but will burn the house down with them inside. The bandits, Khan said, then proceeded to the lower flat of the building, poured kerosene on the floor, and set the building alight.

Moshin Khan in hospital yesterday

The young man related that all he and his mother could have done was crawl on their bellies as they tried to get downstairs. During the crawling, he fell down the stairs, leaving her behind.

After a desperate effort, he managed to free himself, but by this time the house was engulfed in flames, making it impossible for him to return to rescue his mother.

Baichan’s remains were found after the fire had subsided, and the remains were taken to the mortuary for a post-mortem.

Khan was expected to be discharged from hospital yesterday afternoon after receiving treatment for the blows inflicted on him.

The police are investigating the matter, but up to late last night, no suspect had been held.

By Clifford Stanley

 

Alleged rum thieves remanded

Difficult for business people to live and operate successfully in an dangerous environment. It's implication on the economy is negative.

Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

Difficult for business people to live and operate successfully in an dangerous environment. It's implication on the economy is negative.

Agreed! Been going on now at least fifty years about time to put something between its spokes.

Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

Difficult for business people to live and operate successfully in an dangerous environment. It's implication on the economy is negative.

you now learn about this,why u think guyana always have such a high migration rate 

The house in which Corentyne businessman Patrick Mohabir was shot

Ex-murder accused killed

January 8, 2016

 

 

A BELVEDERE, Corentyne businessman was gunned down late Wednesday evening at his home in what is believed to be a hit.Dead is 42-year-old Patrick Mohabir of Lot 9 Belvedere Village, Corentyne, who operates a supermarket at the bottom flat of his premises. He succumbed to his injuries at the Anamayah Memorial Hospital at Belvedere, Corentyne.
The man’s distraught wife, Shabeena Ahamad, told the Guyana Chronicle, she believes that her husband was the target, since his assailants entered and fired a single shot in his direction, which caught him in the left foot, and also inflicted a chop to his shoulder.
They then left immediately, after taking with them two cellular phones that were being charged in the bedroom.

Dead: Berbice businessman, Patrick Mohabir

Ahamad said she offered the men money and anything they needed so that they would not hurt her family, but during the five-minute ordeal, the men said nothing. At the time of the incident, the couple was at home with four of their six children.
Mohabir’s wife said the men were slimly built, masked, and armed with a gun and cutlass. They gained access into the house through a window on the right side of the building, but escaped through the back door.
She said that after securing their business, they retired upstairs for the night around 23:30 hrs. She was awakened by her husband, who asked her to check on the children in the living room as he thought they were still up and playing. “I got up to check what the noise was about,” Ahamad said, “but as soon as I open the bedroom door, two men were standing in front of me.”
She said she pleaded with them to take whatever they wanted and offered them money. At that point, her husband also got up, Ahamad said, after realising what was happening.
It was while struggling with the man with the gun that he was shot, while the one with the cutlass dealt him a chop to his body.
Ahamad said that while the men were on their way out, she managed to pull the mask off one of them, but he bent his head and quickly escaped through the back door. She immediately called the police, who arrived promptly, but the men had already made their escape.
When this publication arrived at the scene, family, friends and customers were gathered at the home of the businessman and his family to express their sympathy, while others were assisting to clean the blood-stained bedroom and blood trail from the bedroom to the entrance of the front gate in the lower flat. Many expressed shock and disbelief over the tragic incident.
Ahamad described her husband as a “caring father” who had no issues with anyone. She said they have been operating the business, Shabeena and Sons Supermarket, for over three years.
Meanwhile, Mohabir and several others had been charged and remanded to prison over the murder of an ex-police officer. This publication was told that Mohabir was committed in the Magistrate’s Court and was on remand for close to five years, but he was later acquitted of the charge. The police are investigating Wednesday night’s killing.

More details on the above

C’tyne businessman shot, chopped to death in home

–cops seek prison escapee, alleged accomplice
On the run since breaking out of prison while on a murder charge, fugitive Neshan Jagmohan is now the

prime suspect in the brutal killing of a Corentyne businessman, who was shot and hacked to death in his home at around 23.30 hrs on Wednesday.
Police say Patrick Mohabir, 42, of Lot 9 Belvedere Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice, was attacked in his home by two men who were armed with a gun and a cutlass.
According to a police statement, the men also held up his wife Shabina Ahmad, 39.
“During the incident Patrick Mohabir put up a resistance and was shot and chopped by the perpetrators who escaped with two cell phones and a pair of shoes.
Mohabir succumbed at the Anamyah Memorial Hospital.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum disclosed that investigators are trying to locate Neshan Jagmohan, who escaped from the New Amsterdam Prison  last December while in solitary confinement.
Jagmohan was committed to stand trial for the October 7, 2013 murder of businessman Devindra Deodat at Hampshire Squatting Area, Corentyne.
Deodat, the owner of Cool Runnings Trucking Service, was shot and chopped to death by masked men who had stormed his grocery.
The bandits also chopped Deodat’s wife in the head and shot her father, Rafeek Abdul, in the left arm.
Blanhum also disclosed that they were seeking another suspect, but declined to identify the individual or say why investigators had connected Neshan Jagmohan to Wednesday’s killing.
Kaieteur News was told that at around 23:30 hrs on Wednesday, two masked men – one armed with a long gun and another with a cutlass, both dressed in dark long-sleeved clothing entered the Mohabir’s home.

Mohabir, a father of six, operates a popular grocery – Shabina and Sons Supermarket – on the premises.
At the time of the invasion, Mohabir, his wife, Shabina and four of their children, were at home. The two older children live overseas.
According to Shabina Ahmad, she and her husband were in their room when her husband heard some strange sounds emanating from outside. She said that they thought it was their children and he asked her to investigate, while he retired to bed.  Upon venturing out of the room, the woman was confronted by two masked men.
She said that she immediately begged the intruders not to harm her.  She said she told the armed men to take whatever they wanted.
However the men did not seem interested in her offers.
Upon hearing the talking, the woman’s husband immediately got up from his bed, but was confronted by one of the bandits. A scuffle ensued and he was shot in his left thigh and chopped by one of the perpetrators. The shot, which was fired at close range, shattered his left leg.
The bandits then returned to the woman.
She “scrambled” with one of them pulling off his mask in the process. However she was not able to see his face “because he duck…” The invaders then quickly exited the house, taking with them two cell phones and a pair

of shoes.
Patrick Mohabir was left in the bedroom where he bled profusely.  He was rushed to the nearby Anamayah Memorial Hospital, some four buildings away, where he succumbed while receiving medical attention.
“I don’t think it was a robbery, ‘cause they didn’t ask for anything,” the man’s wife reflected.
It was not clear how the men gained entry into the house, as there were no signs of forced entry or breakage. The woman stated that the invasion lasted about five minutes. Her four children slept through the ordeal and she woke them after the bandits left. The thieves escaped through a back door.
Mohabir, who once worked as a body guard, had been fingered in many misdemeanours in the past.  In 1998, he and two others were charged with murdering Detective police officer Raybourn Quinn. The detective was brutally chopped to death on the Whim Public Road while on his way to the Whim Police Station to make a report about cattle rustling. The matter was dismissed in the High Court a few years later.

Looks like Walter Rodney execution planning all over again, this time Brassington is the target.

Army admits involvement in surveillance activity

British teen found in shallow grave

-God-brother  arrested -friend, wanted

The search for missing British teen, Dominic Bernard, came to a grisly end at around 13.30 hrs yesterday, following the discovery of his decomposed body in a shallow grave at Nurney, Corentyne Berbice.
The victim was fully clothed and his body appeared to have been mutilated.
The body was left overnight under guard at the scene. A postmortem is to be conducted today.
Police sources said that Aaron Wilfred Hing, the victim’s god-brother and a prime suspect, was captured last night in a city hotel. He had booked into the hotel at around 17.00 hrs and was asking a staffer to borrow a cell phone when two police ranks, who had received information about his whereabouts, informed the staff that they were looking for a murder suspect.
A source said that Hing attempted to slip away from the scene but one of the policemen recognized him.
He was then arrested and was still being questioned at press time at CID Headquarters, Eve Leary. A second man is also in custody.
Police had issued a wanted bulletin for Hing, 23, who is a British citizen, and who had lived with Dominic Bernard’s family before coming to live in Guyana.

The bulletin had given Hing’s last known address as Lot 19, Kildonan Village, Corentyne.
A similar bulletin was also issued for Staymon George, who is also 23. His last known address was given as Lot 19 Charles Street, Charlestown and Kildonan Village, Corentyne.
Police sources said that Dominic Bernard’s corpse was found after detectives, responding to an anonymous call, conducted a four-hour search of a desolate and bushy area some five miles off the main road at Kildonan, Corentyne.
The ranks were reportedly tipped off some time on Thursday night that Dominic Bernard had been slain and his body buried in the area.
They reportedly began searching the bushy terrain from as early as 08.00 hrs yesterday.
There are reports that the ranks were about to give up the search when they received a second call.
This caused them to intensify the search and the shallow grave, with its gruesome remains, was eventually found.
Detectives from Georgetown, including ranks from the major Crimes Unit, joined detectives from Berbice in their investigation and remained at the scene up to late yesterday evening.
Indications are that the 18-year-old British citizen was murdered, by persons who knew him, shortly after he arrived in Guyana.
Dominic Bernard reportedly travelled to Guyana on October 14, last to meet his God-brother, Aaron Wilfred Hing.
He failed to make contact with family or friends.
The teenager was scheduled to fly back to England on November 5, 2015.

During a press conference held at Cara Lodge, the missing teen’s father, Andrew Bernard, said that his son left London to travel to Guyana on October 14, 2015 on Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) flight BW 903. He said that Dominic landed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) Timehri at 21:50hrs and “has not been seen or heard from since.”
He went on to say that his son is six feet tall and of medium build.
According to Mr. Bernard, Dominic was last seen wearing blue jeans and white sweatshirt with a black jacket that has leather in the middle and fabric on the arms.
A photographer/film maker, the teen was also wearing a pair of white Nike sneakers and was carrying a suitcase along with one piece of hand luggage.
Andrew Bernard stated that this was his son’s maiden trip to Guyana. He was supposed to be picked from the airport by his God-brother, whom he was coming to spend time with.
Mr. Bernard stated that after his son failed to return home, he contacted his Godson who claimed that he had not seen the teen and did not even know he had travelled to Guyana.
Mr. Bernard said that it was unusual for his son not to make contact with his family.
He recalled that his son had travelled to Atlanta, Georgia, in the US earlier last year, and had made contact with his family as soon as he touched down there.
Dominic Bernard resided in England with his parents and according to his father, he was not encountering any problems back at home.

On Thursday, police, acting on reports that the missing teen had been spotted, searched locations in Berbice, Sophia and Timehri.
Several CID, Intelligence and uniformed police ranks from Georgetown and Berbice, searched a house in Kildonan, Corentyne.
According to reports, the house turned out to be the home of the missing teen’s best friend and god-brother, Aaron Hing.

“We were fearful for our lives”

Good going Granger administration. You promised change but gave exchange. 

Woman alleges rape at GPHC

A 25-year-old woman is accusing a member of staff attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) of raping her while she was a patient at the hospital.
The woman stated that last Monday, while she was lying on her bed in the ward, she was approached by a man, whom she said was dressed in blue and black.
“He tell me that I have to go with him downstairs to get an injection,” she said.
The woman stated that she was then escorted downstairs and led into a dark room where she was instructed by the individual to remove her clothes.
“He had sex with me, and he left me in the room and I couldn’t find my way back (to the ward).”
The woman subsequently made a report to officials of the GPHC and caused an investigation to be launched.
She said that she was given a prophylactic and counseled by a social worker.
However, several sources interviewed by this publication, made claims of the woman – who is a “regular” at the hospital because of her having constant seizures – being intimately involved with her alleged rapist.
Sources have also stated that the woman and the alleged rapist would often have consensual sex at the GPHC. One of the source’s “theories” is that the duo might have been caught in the act causing the “embarrassed” woman to “cry rape”
Both allegations, however, were denied by the woman who expressed disgust and who stated that while she has a lot of friends at the hospital, she has never met this particular individual.
When spoken to recently, she said that several officials attached to the GPHC had visited her and requested that she drop the matter. However, the woman said that she has no such intentions of doing so and with the support of her mother, she is hoping that she will get justice.
Speaking to Minister of Health George Norton yesterday, he revealed that upon hearing of the incident, measures were immediately taken.
“We took measures to remove security personnel who we think were not doing their jobs and also instructed others who were in the area of security and this is being undertaken by someone who is very well experienced in the security sector and is coming directly from the Ministry of Public Health…” he stated.
On the question of whether the alleged assailant was still on the job Norton replied, “Certainly not, investigations are still going on, if it is necessary, charges will be laid.”

Drugb posted:

This govt is a joke.

Berbice Bridge robbed

DECEMBER 24, 2015 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER NEWS 

A BBC vehicle parked at the Central Police station yesterday.

The Berbice River Bridge may very well be rethinking its decision to lower their fare after the company was hit with a $5M robbery on Wednesday.
The take included both cash and cheques.
Reports are that around 06:00 hrs on Wednesday, operatives at the  De Edward, West Bank Berbice River end of the bridge were in the process of making a deposit  at the nearby Republic Bank when they were robbed by a lone gunman with a hand gun.
According to Chief Executive Officer of the Berbice Bridge Company, Omadatt Samaroo, the Supervisor was in the vicinity of the Republic bank and had just exited the vehicle to make a deposit into the safety deposit box when a lone bandit appeared and pointed a gun to her head and demanded she hand over the cash that was in two night deposit bags.
The man grabbed the bags from the startled employee, jumped the bank fence and escaped in the nearby cane fields.
It is not sure if the BBCI staff was accompanied by any security detail, however people in the vicinity stated that none was available.
It was a regular practice by the BBCI not to have security details accompany their employees when they are depositing money.
It is understood that security details at the Bank who are usually unarmed scampered for cover, some hiding under tables when they saw the man with the gun.
The matter was reported to the police who responded promptly and scoured the area. A man was subsequently nabbed in the vicinity and is in custody. He is said to have been seen with a change of clothes.
Investigations are continuing.

OH HO -Karma.

 

Bobby company get robbed.  Interesting.

 

Tief who tief from a tief mek god laugh.

The Granger administration continues to do a lousy job in the security of the nation's citizens. Yet no call for Ramjattan's resignation.

 

Grocer, 81, wife, 49, butchered by drug-crazed youths

-teen confesses to brutal killing, caught trying to wash off blood

by Michael Jordan and Samuel Whyte
In one of the most shocking confessions in recent times, an 18-year-old boy yesterday related to police how he and two others tortured, robbed and finally hacked an 81-year-old grocer and his 49-year-old wife to death at Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice.
The victims, Doodnauth Rajkumar and Dianne Chammanlall, who own a grocery and beer garden, were terrorized and repeatedly chopped, after the young robbers, all drug-crazed youths, broke into their Lot 93 ‘A’ Bush Lot, Middle Dam, West Coast Berbice property early yesterday morning.
Mr. Rajkumar, with throat slashed from ear to ear, and with one arm partially severed, was found dead in the hallway.
Police reportedly found his wife, Dianne Chammanlall, badly injured and lying in the verandah of the two-storey home.
She succumbed while receiving medical attention at the Fort Wellington Hospital.
The teen, who police identified as Neeman Rafeek, called ‘Shazam’, of Bush Lot New Scheme, Berbice, was captured at his home shortly after fleeing the scene.
At the time, he was washing off the blood of the victims. Detectives also found bloodstained clothing soaked in a bucket.
Up to late yesterday, detectives were still hunting for the detained youth’s two other accomplices. One of the suspects is a 25-year-old former murder accused who was recently arrested, but released, in connection with another murder.
Other reports stated that at least four people are in custody. Police have also recovered a knife that the killers used.
The slain couple operated a grocery as well as a beer garden. Kaieteur News understands that the beer garden was frequented by drug addicts from the community.

Evidence at the slain couple’s home revealed that the killers had devoured chocolates and other confectionaries at the scene, and had even defecated in the home. Police also found a bag that the young killers had stashed with confectionaries, but were forced to abandon after the ranks arrived.
In a detailed statement to detectives, the detained youth reportedly admitted that the gang had broken into the premises to rob the victims.
The teen reportedly stated that after cornering Doodnauth Rajkumar and Dianne Chammanlall in their home, the robbers began chopping their victims, while repeatedly demanding money.
But it was while they were torturing the couple that neighbours reportedly heard the commotion.
They contacted the police who rushed to the scene and saw the three killers scaling a fence.
Inside, they found the upper flat ransacked and awash with blood, with the dead businessman and his mortally wounded wife nearby.
While the victims were taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital, police set up a cordon in an attempt to capture the victims, but the suspects managed to slip the dragnet.
However, acting on information, police ranks went to the Bush Lot New Scheme home of teenage suspect, Neeman Rafeek.
There, they reportedly found him trying to wash off his victim’s blood, while his clothing, also bloodstained, was in a bucket of water.
Mr. Rajkumar was the father of four, who are all overseas. The victim was also said to be a US citizen.
His reputed wife also has a daughter who lives overseas.
His nephew, Attorney- at- Law Ramesh Rajkumar, said that his uncle recently travelled overseas to visit his children and take his regular medical checkup.
Rajkumar stated that relatives received a call around 04:30 hrs from someone who told them about the incident.
He stated that the couple was badly beaten and chopped and appeared to have been tortured.
The nephew also stated that the thieves took time to drink beers and eat chocolates, before defecating in a number of areas in the house.
According to Rajkumar, he was told that the bandits entered the house around 02:30 hours.
It is unclear how they gained entry, since there were no signs of forced entry.
Residents stated that a number of youths would drink, and even “smoke weed” in front of the premises.
Some speculated that one or more of the bandits, who are all from the area, may have secreted themselves into the shop before it was closed.
Residents were loud in praise of the police for the swift manner in which they responded to the situation.
A large number of people, including relatives, gathered outside the couple’s home when daylight dawned. They saw the undertakers removing the bodies and were stunned.

Body on yacht had gunshot to face

Local investigators have contacted their French counterparts as they collaborate to probe the death of Frenchman Michel Bozier, whose body along with that of his dog was found on a yacht 200 miles off the coast of Guyana.

Local police took possession of the body yesterday after the yacht, “Allegro”, was brought into Port Georgetown by the Guyana Defence Force Coastguard.
According to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum, the body bore a gunshot wound to the face which is consistent with a shotgun blast.
The dog was also shot dead with a shotgun.
Blanhum said that while a post mortem examination has not yet been performed on the body, investigators are looking at every possible theory, including suicide as the reason for Bozier’s death.
A shotgun was found under the face…There were three other shotguns in the cabin,” the Crime Chief said.
From all indications no one else was on the vessel when Bozier died, since according to the Crime Chief, everything was intact, including credit cards belonging to the dead man.
Investigators were able to ascertain from documents found on the yacht that Bozier celebrated his 70th birthday two months ago.
The yacht bearing the bodies of Bozier and his dog was first spotted on January 5 by the crew of a tanker vessel which was moving from Jamaica to Brazil.
The crew sent a transmission which was picked up by the local coastguard, who subsequently informed the relevant agencies.  The coast guard was provided with the reading of where the sighting was made.
Using the information, the Guyana Defence Force sent out its Skyvan to conduct a flyover survey to confirm the information.
After this was done, the aircraft returned to the coast and a team from the Maritime Administration, the GDF and the Guyana Police Force went to the location and brought the French registered yacht into port.

Three held for illegal 9mm in car

Police on the West Demerara continue to be on the alert to ensure that they minimise criminal activity in their Division.
Yesterday, they were successful in taking another illegal weapon off the streets and might have been able to halt the progress of a gang that was wreaking havoc in La Parfaite Harmonie community.
Divisional Commander Stephen Mansell told this newspaper yesterday that his ranks were on patrol duty around 10:20 hours when they intercepted a car at Schoonard Public Road, which leads into La Parfaite Harmonie.
The occupants were ordered out while a search was carried on in their presence.
An alert policeman observed a bulge under a mat in the vehicle. A closer examination revealed a 9mm pistol with nine matching rounds of ammunition. The three men were promptly taken into custody.
The Commander said that apart from being charged for the illegal possession of the firearm and ammunition, the men will be placed on ID parade to see if they were involved in any of the criminal activities that were perpetrated in the area within the past few months.
“We had some hits in the Parfait area late last year and we will be investigating to see if they were involved,” the Commander said.

This is what the people voted for when they elected the afc/apnu.

Single women abandon their homes

As bandits continue to invade the homes of women who live alone on the Essequibo Coast, many of those women are now forced to abandon their homes out of fear of being physically harmed or even killed.
One such recent attack targeted a woman who has resided for years at Richmond Village, Essequibo Coast. The victim revealed during a conversation that she still cannot understand why the bandits chose to invade her house and cart off all of her clothing and food stuff, even though she secured the building and had gone away for a while.
According to the woman, the night after she left the Coast to spend some time away, her home was invaded and ransacked.
The worried woman said that the intruders searched every room, purse, cupboard and wardrobe took away all of her clothing including her underwear.
The woman said that the incident has forced her to never sleep in her house again. A report was lodged and detectives visited the scene and conducted a thorough investigation but to date no one has been arrested. Further reports have indicated that there was no sign of forced entry except footprints in the sand behind the building.(Yannason Duncan)

The message from the new Govt, crime does pay.  They will be pardoned!