Gas station owner loses $1M after

daughter jumps from hijacked car

A Berbice businessman and his daughter were on Wednesday evening robbed of over $1M by three identifiable bandits, one armed with a gun, just as they were about to enter their home at St John Street, New Amsterdam.
The thieves, one wearing a hood and the other two unmasked, are suspected to have trailed them from their business place at Canefield, East Canje, Berbice, to their home, where the men hijacked the car (a Toyota Roctus PPP 9798) with the young lady still inside and drove away with the money.
According to information, businessman Raymond Arnold, 60, of 20-6 St John Street, New Amsterdam, owns and operates the R. Arnold and Daughters Gas Station. His daughter Diana Arnold, 23, an employee of Republic Bank, would at times collect her father from his place of work.
And Wednesday was no different, as the young lady collected her father just after closing his business and headed home. As they approached their home around 19:20 hrs, the car stopped just before the yard to allow the man to come out and open the gate.
After he did so, the young lady was about to drive in the yard when she noticed three men – two on foot and one on bicycle – approaching in her rear view mirror. Not taking much notice, the young woman was startled when one of the men stretched his hand through the half open window, pointed a gun at her and grabbed the steering wheel as he tried to open the door to get in the vehicle. A struggle ensued as the young woman refused to yield. She tried to drive the vehicle away, but the bandit held onto the steering wheel.
One of his cohorts accosted Mr. Arnold who was standing outside and demanded the money. The businessman refused as the bandit jumped into the vehicle. As the scuffle continued, the bandit managed to overpower the young lady and forced her over to the passenger side as he jumped in and drove away, just as the third bandit had entered the car where the $1M was in a bag.
As they headed into Strand, the woman managed to open the door and jumped from the moving vehicle, injuring herself in the process. She is said to have suffered a slight fracture to her back, injuries to her knees and hands.
The bandits then turned through St Magdalene Street and headed into the Vryheid, Angoy’s Avenue area.  The woman walked back to her residence where a crowd was gathered outside.
The police were informed and arrived at the scene. In the meantime, residents had also gone into action and chased behind the vehicle. One resident on a motor cycle noticed the car being driven at a fast rate and sensing something amiss, decided to chase behind it.
The driver turned through several streets before eventually smashing into a premises in the Vryheid area.
The damaged car with its right bumper smashed was found with the engine running and the inside ransacked.
The police subsequently recovered the car and lifted a number of fingerprints from the vehicle. Several persons have since been placed in custody.
The businessman and his workers had earlier noticed two strange men drinking at a nearby run shop not far from his workplace. The men then visited his gas station and asked for sweet drinks. After they were told this not was available they left and were lurking around other shops.
This is the fourth robbery the man has suffered. The last time being in January when thieves – believed to be the same three men – had ambushed him and his family and entered their home. They left empty-handed on that occasion. The businessman said he is disappointed with the justice system in Berbice and is contemplating quitting.
Diana Arnold was serving as a juror in the High Court in Berbice. She has since been excused from the trial.
Investigations are continuing.

Bar maid shot dead

 

A 46-year-old bar maid was shot dead around 22:30 hrs on Wednesday at her employment site, the Country Club Restaurant and Bar located at Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
The victim whose name was given as Jagwandai Ramnauth called Selena of Bath Settlement,West Coast Berbice, was killed hours after she reportedly spoke of quitting her job due to months of unpaid salary.

Her boss has since been in police custody assisting with investigations.
Police in a press release said that Ramnauth was involved in an argument with a group of patrons at the night spot during which one of the men pulled out a firearm and fatally shot her to the head, after which they escaped.
Kaieteur News was informed that the owner was not at the bar when the incident occurred but he reportedly told investigators that he received a call a little before 23:00hrs from one of his workers who informed him that the woman had a “problem” with some people.
According to police sources, the owner claimed that he immediately went to the bar and found his worker lying in a pool of blood behind a counter with a bullet wound to her forehead after which he informed the police.
The man, who has been renting the aforementioned property for the past several years to operate his restaurant and bar, was taken into custody late Wednesday night and was later released.
However, after taking statement from several persons, including workers at the bar, investigators rearrested him.
Yesterday at the scene, Rai Gurdat, one of the owners of the Chateau Margot property from which the business is operated, said that he was asleep when police visited his home.
“I am staying at the back of the bar. I didn’t hear any music so I assumed business was slow. The police woke me up and ask if I heard any gunshots and I said no,” Gurdat said. He added that investigators took him to the bar and showed him the body of Ramnauth lying in a pool of blood on the floor.
“I was shocked and I panicked. I didn’t hear any gunshots. Selena used to work hard, from morning to night, and she didn’t get paid for almost a year. The morning before she was killed, she said to me that as soon as the boss pays her, she will leave,” Gurdat claimed.
Kaieteur News was informed that Ramnauth was not only a waitress at the bar but also manned the night spot whenever her employer was not around.
According to Gurdat, workers quit working at the bar due to non-payment of salary and “Selena had to do everything. In the morning, she made cutters and cleaned, and in the nights she served.”
Investigations are ongoing.

Salesman gunned down, robbed by

bandits on bike

Bandits on a CG motorcycle yesterday gunned down a 57-year-old driver/salesman outside his workplace, Patsan Trading Services, at around 14.40 hrs, before escaping with a bag of money.
Bharrat Ramcharan, of Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, was reportedly shot in the back after he threw a bag of money over the gate of the John Smith Street, Campbellville premises to prevent the bandits from making off with the cash. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Hospital.

According to some eyewitness, Ramcharan was standing with his hands raised when he was shot. The gunmen fled north up John Smith Street after the attack. Police say that they have detained a suspect.
The slain man’s son, Raymond Ramcharan, said that his father had been employed at Patsan Trading Services since 1995. Kaieteur News understands that he had been robbed at gunpoint on at least two other occasions.
“It’s not the first time that he was robbed, but he would always throw the money at them (the robbers) and they would leave,” a source said.
Kaieteur News was told that Ramcharan, who had collected an undisclosed sum of money from customers, had just stepped out of his vehicle when two unmasked men on a CG motorcycle approached him. One of them had a handgun.
A source said that on seeing the bandits, Ramcharan immediately threw the money-bag over the fence, then stood with hands aloft. However, the gunmen reportedly ran into the compound and snatched up the bag. They then ran out of the compound and shot Ramcharan before speeding off on their motorcycle.
Kaieteur News understands that the shot salesman managed to stagger into the compound where he collapsed. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A Campbellville resident who lives a few doors away recalled hearing gunshots and later running to the scene. He said that on reaching Patsan Trading, he saw a man lying in the yard.
“I ask if is a bandit and they said is Bharrat,” the resident said. He said that he then saw employees placing the mortally wounded man into a vehicle.
The slain man’s son said that he received word about his father’s death at around 15.00 hrs.
Several of the man’s relatives and friends, including Ramcharan’s elderly mother, later gathered at his home.

President chides GPF over number of

unsolved murders

 

- says low rate of prosecution also cause for concern

President Donald Ramotar expressed his dissatisfaction with the increasing number of unsolved crimes which are plaguing the Guyana Police Force. The Head of State while delivering the feature address at the opening of the Police Officers Annual Conference yesterday said that there is an alarmingly high incidence of unresolved crimes and low rates of prosecution, resulting largely from police failures.
According to Ramotar, these two issues can have serious consequences. He stressed that these could lead to heightened criminal activities within the country.
The president said that all the blame “should not and is not being place solely on the police”. He said that he has already spoken to the Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall to address the issue with the judicial authorities.
Ramotar expressed his total disapproval at two highly debated cases. One is the ‘Bourda shooting’ when local club cricketer Carlyle Barton was seen on surveillance camera shooting another man. Several months after being charged, Barton was released after pertinent witnesses failed to attend court and give evidence.
The second case which the Head of State made reference to was that of businessman Randy Jagdeo.  Jagdeo was charged with the murder of biker Kurt Davis. According to the president this case was truly heart-rending and shows possible scheming.
“He had a motorcycle waiting on him at the court…It shows that he must have known what was going to happen that day!” the President stressed.
Ramotar noted that it was totally unacceptable for persons to escape justice because of poor preparedness of cases by Prosecutors, failure to ensure witnesses attend Court, failure to apply for witness summons, discrepancy in evidence and Police Officers failing to attend Court, all of which have been the result of failed prosecutions in recent times. He said that there must be an improvement to ensure that there is value for money.
The President also said that there should be greater collaboration between all the disciplined forces and the judiciary. Working together, he stressed, would help to put an end to criminal activities, lest it is encouraged and fostered locally. He said that if this is continued they would create an avalanche of crimes within the society.
The Guyana Police Force has been coming under increased criticism for its failures with many cases in the court. There have been concerns that the Force has not been doing enough to get witnesses to attend court and ensure that they offer evidence in matters before the court.
Meanwhile, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack, who was also present at the Police Conference, said that she has given the Magistrate direction to reopen the Barton case and to find and get a further statement from the missing witness in the Jagdeo matter.
According to the DDP, they had sent for the depositions in the Jagdeo matter and the witness who didn’t testify was supposed to give a further statement when it came for advice. The file was sent back to the police for them to find the witnesses, take further statements, and return it to the DPP Chambers.

Wyatt Earp is now taking a special look at this situation

Black Bush rice farmer, wife lose $1.7M

in bandit attack

In a case that has shocked the farming community of Black Bush Polder, armed bandits have left two residents badly injured following an attack Tuesday evening.
The rice farmer from Yakusari North, which is part of that East Berbice, Corentyne community, is believed to have been trailed from the bank where he reportedly withdrew over $1M.

Both Baijnauth ‘Baij’ Niwaz, 58, and his wife Kalawattie ‘Vedo’ Niwaz, are now in a private Berbice hospital where they were admitted.
According to police, at 19:00hrs, Niwaz, 58, and his wife Kalawattie Niwaz were in their home when two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm, entered through an open door.
They were held at gunpoint and the perpetrators took away a bag containing $1.7M and escaped.
The police found an improvised shotgun at the scene, as the investigations continue.
Neighbours said that the couple, who lived alone, had just returned from one of the banks.
Niwaz is said to be a prominent farmer who buys paddy from smaller farmers. He also has several acres and does his own planting.
Rice for the first crop is currently being harvested across the country.
Neighbours said that the bandits entered the home and started to assault the couple. The woman was chopped across the back while the farmer was struck several times across his head.
It is believed that the money was withdrawn to pay farmers.
Both were rushed to the hospital by neighbours who were alerted.
Residents yesterday called for an increased police presence.
The attack in that close knit community has left residents in shock.

Why does the media publish the value of the heists? This makes it look like a worth while risk for the bandits. Over here the media would say an "undisclosed" amount . Also I find, the poor journalism of reporting the specific details of the crime is food for the copy cats.

Hmmmm.....how come GNI resident mini bus tout not saying anything about this. Maybe he went on a trip to the mountain top.

Him is at gaumont

No! He busy rileing up D2.

Kaneville man accused of murdering brother

remanded to Prison

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Lethem/Annai police taking bribes not to

Prosecute – PCA Chairman

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Mocha 9-year-old rape/murder trial…

Accused admits having sex with

victim

“Me and her walked until there was no shops… We went in de bush and Sade tek off she clothes and we continue doing, what we bin doing…sex.” A mixed 12-member jury listened, as a police witness read aloud the caution statement of rape/murder accused, Jevon Wharton yesterday. Wharton is accused of raping and murdering, nine-year-old, Barnwell North, Mocha resident, Sade Stoby, some time between, November 2, and November 5, 2007.

 

 

He is facing a trial before Justice Navindra Singh at the Georgetown High Court, along with his co-accused, Charles Cush. The men were both teenagers at the time of the crime.  Wharton now 23 years old, and his alleged accomplice Cush, 21, are being represented by Attorneys at Law Raymond Alli and George Thomas, respectively. The body of the nine-year-old girl was discovered a short distance from her home, at Barnwell North, Mocha on November 5, 2007. She had been brutally raped and drowned. On Tuesday, State Prosecutor, Judith Gildharie Mursalin told the court that a post mortem exercise conducted on Stoby’s body by Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh revealed the cause of death, to be asphyxiation due to submersion compounded by blunt trauma  to head. When Stoby’s body was recovered, she was bloated and she had haemorrhaged from her head and chest. “There was a thick black mud in her trachea , her stomach was filled with dark black mud, blood in her vagina,  her hymen was ruptured and her intestines were protruding through her anus; there was blunt trauma to head. “There was bruising of the vagina which indicated sexual activity just before her death,” the Prosecutor had said. After Justice Navindra Singh ruled  on a voir dire, (a trial within a trial), which was conducted to determine admissibility of Wharton’s caution statement, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Elston Baird, was allowed to read the statement aloud, to the court. According to Baird, on November 5, 2007 Wharton, who was sixteen years old at the time, told police investigators at Brickdam Police station that he met the girl, named Sade at the aqueduct bridge. “Me and she walked until there was no shops. We went in de bush and Sade tek off she clothes and we continue doing, what we bin doing…sex. Then we when we finish she putting she clothes and she slip and fall and knock she head and I pick up me bicycle and ride away and on Saturday I bin back fuh see if I see she and she dead.” When the case commenced on Tuesday, Stoby’s mother was the first person to take the stand. The child’s mother gave an emotional recollection of the incident. The woman recalled vividly that her daughter went to school on November 2, but never returned.  The woman said that after two days of a meticulous search, relatives discovered the body of her daughter, near a trench at Sixth Field Barnwell North.

Mabura businessman murdered in shop

 

- cash, gold missing

Police are looking for suspects in the brutal murder of a 52-year-old shopkeeper, whose body, with stab wounds to the head, was discovered early yesterday in his Mabura, Region Ten premises.
Colin Mclean, of Lot 88 Wismar Housing Scheme, Linden, is believed to have been murdered at around 04.00 hrs, when the lights in the community went off.

Mclean has been operating his food and beverage business at that location for the past 10 years.
Police in a release said that Mclean’s body was found in his home with suspected stab wounds at around 08:20 hrs yesterday. A source said that money and gold were missing.
This newspaper was informed that a little after 04:00hrs yesterday, when the lights in Mabura went off, neighbours recalled hearing a loud scream and upon checking some hours later, the bloodied body of the businessman was found.
Residents spoke of seeing a suspicious “red-skin” man walking around in the community late Saturday. A taxi driver reportedly told investigators that he picked up the said “red-skin” individual from Mclean’s shop around 05:00hrs yesterday.
“We hear that this man went talking over the phone that he did the job well in Mabura and the taxi man hear he and passed on the message to the police,” the dead man sister, Mavis McLean Thompson, said.
She added that a little before 09:00hrs yesterday, one of her brothers called and informed her that their sibling had been murdered.
“He (my brother) called and say Colin get murder and I asked him if it is we Colin and he say yes and he hang up and he left to go to Mabura,” the sister of the dead man added.
She further related that she was informed that customers visited her brother’s shop early yesterday and after making several unanswered calls, they went to the Mabura Police Station.
“They see the place open and they know that he does done start prepare things and after they called and get no answers, they went to the police and when the police went into the place, they saw my brother lying on the bed,” the distraught sister said.
She added that as the news about her brother’s death went around in the community, neighbours provided investigators with details pertaining to the suspect who they claimed left Mabura minutes after Mclean was killed.
McLean leaves to mourn his daughter and six siblings.

Labourer stabbed to death for littering

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‘Litterbug’ fatally stabbed by guard

A man lost his life last night after he was stabbed by a security guard while trying to dump garbage in a Quamina Street, South Cummingsburg premises. The man, who was identified as Nigel Lawson, was stabbed after he was challenged by the guard just after 20:00 hours. Kaieteur News understands that the security guard who is presently in police custody assisting with investigations, observed the man with the garbage just as he was about to dump it on the property he was guarding. He challenged the man who put up a resistance. A fight ensued and the guard inflicted several stab wounds to the man’s body. The victim collapsed and succumbed shortly after. The police were called in and immediately cordoned off the area as the dead man lay on the parapet.

Woman, 21, found dead in Port Kaituma

shop

 

Police are trying to ascertain the cause of death of a 21-year-old woman, whose body was found last Wednesday in a Port Kaituma backdam shop in which she worked.
Reports indicate that the employee, Dianne Sam, of Citrus Grove, Port Kaituma, was found dead in a bedroom several hours after she had consumed a combination of alcoholic beverages. A woman who owns the shop said that foul play was not suspected and that her employee had been suffering from gallstones and was scheduled for surgery.
According to reports, Dianne Sam and three other workers were at the shop at around 10.00 hrs on Wednesday, when Sam poured a combination of Guinness, Red Bull, Vodka and Magnum energy drink into a bowl and drank the contents.
Kaieteur News understands that shortly after, Sam complained of feeling unwell and went into her room.
At around noon, one of the female workers went to the room to call Sam for lunch, and found her lying motionless on her bed. The worker then contacted her employer and the police were also informed.
The body was brought out to the Port Kaituma Hospital while police await a post mortem

Man chopped to death during robbery, wife

hospitalized

May 2, 2014 1:15 pmCategory: CrimeA+ / A-

Fisherman hacked to death at

Haslington New Scheme

- wife claims robbery, relatives finger woman’s lover

 

The peace and tranquility of the small community of Haslington New Scheme on the East Coast of Demerara was shattered early yesterday morning with the brutal hacking to death of 40-year-old fisherman Chetram Bharrat.

 

 

While his 36-year-old wife Lomattie Ramdat, who was also chopped about her body is claiming that they were attacked by two bandits who carried away $500,000, relatives and neighbours are almost convinced that it was the work of the woman’s lover who has conveniently vanished. Bharrat was found lying dead on his blood soaked bed with several deep chop wounds to his head and other parts of his body minutes after his wife ran out of the house and alerted neighbours around 04:00 hours. Police in a statement yesterday said that their initial investigations indicate that two men, both of whom were armed with cutlasses, entered the 418 Ninth Street, Haslington New Scheme home of Chetram Bharrat and his reputed wife Lomattie Ramdat, 36, through a window. The men demanded cash and jewellery during which the two victims were chopped about their bodies. Speaking with Kaieteur News from her hospital bed Ramdat said, “Me and me husband been sleeping and we wake up and two men just start chopping. They chop me and they chop he.” The woman told this newspaper that she tried to block the blows but received two chops on her hand and then fainted. According to the woman, when she came to, she saw her husband lying motionless on his bed. She managed to make it to a neighbour to whom she related what had transpired. The police were subsequently contacted. Gopaul Ramkumar, the couple’s neighbour to the east, said that he did not hear any screams when the attack was taking place but was only awakened by Ramdat’s knocking and calling his name. He said that since the couple was known to have disagreements whenever they imbibed liquor, he thought that they were having another quarrel, so at first he was not too keen to get out of his bed. “She call and seh, ‘come boy, open de door.’ When me open de door, me see she cover in blood and me nah know wha fuh do. Me put she fuh sit down and me go and me call dem other neighbour,” Ramkumar told this newspaper. He said the woman claimed that thieves had attacked them and her husband was lying dead on his bed. She was eventually rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation by her 18-year-old son, Avinash, who had raced to the scene from Clonbrook several miles away after being informed about the tragedy. As news of the incident spread through the village, several residents who had already gotten out of their beds at the break of day, converged on the scene and began expressing views on how the couple lived. Kaieteur News learnt that Bharrat worked as a fisherman in neighbouring Suriname and would spend months away from his home, leaving his wife and two teenage children. Relatives said that he recently returned home from a four-month stint at sea, with a substantial amount of money. According to the relatives, Bharrat’s absence resulted in his wife engaging in an affair with another villager, who they strongly believe was responsible for the attack.

 

 

The dead man’s sister-in-law, Lalita (his wife’s sister), told a tale of infidelity on the part of Ramdat. This caused the couple’s two children to move out and reside with her at Clonbrook. She said that while the brutal death of Bharrat was a shock, it was not unexpected. “They were threatened…A boy name Errol did threaten de two children and dey father. De mother have an affair with dis boy,” Lalita said. She informed that the man had attacked them before, even pouring poison into a barrel that contained the water they had to consume. That matter was reported to the police. “Is he do dis! The night when he de come and threaten me and me father, he come with a cutlass and he threaten fuh kill me and me brother…He seh dat how he gon kill me and me father before de year done,” the dead man’s 17-year-old daughter Jasmattie Bharrat called ‘Nikita,’ told this newspaper. Almost everyone at the scene blamed the woman’s affair for the incident. Even her sister, Lalita, had nothing good to say. “Because of the threats, de children had to come away by me,” she said, adding that she even advised Bharrat to end his relationship with her sister for his own safety. As for the couple’s 18-year-old son, Avinash, his mother’s version of what transpired sounds a bit farfetched. He said that firstly, all the doors of the house were secured and there were no signs of forced entry. “She tell me dat when de men dem come in, she couldn’t ah holler or do nothing, she just had to block de chops. She say dat de two men is two tall people,” Avinash Bharrat said. He too is convinced that his mother’s lover was responsible for his father’s death. “He get people fuh do it. De last time he try fuh kill me father but he ain’t get through because he run away.” The young man believes that his mother’s lover had facilitated the killers by distracting the two dogs his father reared at the house. Neighbours said that they did not hear any barking from the dogs, although they usually made a lot of noise whenever strangers entered the yard. They believe that the man used food to lure the dogs away. “Fuss thing, dem dog dis bad wha da man gat. Earlier he been at de shop and buy sardine and bread and milk and he feed dem dogs,” a neighbour told this newspaper. “Whenever she (Ramdat) drink and does cuss out, you does hear she voice till away so. How come you nah hear she holler when dem ah chop she?” another neighbour said. A close relative of the woman’s lover contacted this newspaper via telephone all the way from the United States of America and also expressed the belief that he was the mastermind. Bharrat was described as a very kind person who was very generous to his wife and children. But the same could not be said about his wife; even from her children. “Like me nah gat no feeling fuh she, she don’t even talk to we. She gat fuh talk de truth. If she nah talk de truth me nah know wha go happen,” her son said.

Quote "“They were threatened…A boy name Errol did threaten de two children and dey father. De mother have an affair with dis boy,” Lalita said. She informed that the man had attacked them before, even pouring poison into a barrel that contained the water they had to consume. That matter was reported to the police. “Is he do dis!" unquote

Body of GuySuCo watchman found on

Rose Hall road

Police in Berbice are investigating the circumstances leading to the death of Mahesh ‘Bartica Chocolate’ Ramsammy popularly known as Haribol, 38, of 19 ‘B’ Williamsburg, Corentyne, whose body was found along the Rose Hall Town Public Road early Friday morning.

 

His motorcycle was found next to his body. It is believed that Ramsammy may have hit an animal. He lived with his aunt Leekranie Shanta. According to Shanta, her nephew left home as usual on Thursday at 06:00 hrs to go to work. Ramsammy was a ‘watchman’ in the backdam of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo)’s Albion Estate. “Around 1:00 hr., two guys came, one with a car and the other with a big motorbike…and call and they said a boy get accident in front of the mall at Rose Hall…we can’t say if anybody beat him or if he knocked the horse….but they said the horse hair was on the motorbike, my husband checked it.” “The hair was on the bike and the light break up. It (the bike) is currently at the Rose Hall Town Police Outpost. He was a very good peaceful and quiet boy,” the aunt said. “And when I go at the [Port Mourant] hospital, the nurses tried their best with him and sent him to New Amsterdam to do X- ray and they then rushed him to Georgetown—we travelled good but he was blowing, and when he arrived at the hospital, he died.” A post mortem is expected to be performed on Tuesday at the New Amsterdam Hospital.

Family finds Tuschen man’s death “fishy’

14 – year – old found dead on Foulis Public Road

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Man killed execution-style in

Albouystown

- Brother died in similar circumstances four years ago

By Romila Boodram

Up to press time, investigators were following leads as to who would blatantly walk into a crowded yard at Curtis Street, Albouystown at around 01:00hrs yesterday and gun down football player, Orvin Milton.
The 30-year-old North East La Penitence resident, who is a part-time taxi driver, was shot to the head by a lone gunman who escaped through Le Repentir Cemetery after discharging three rounds at his victim.
Milton collapsed and according to eyewitnesses, his brain was scattered on the muddy dam. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where he was pronounced dead.

Police in a press release said that Milton was in a yard at Albouystown when a man approached him and discharged a round which hit him to his body. The shooter then escaped.
Sources close to the investigation told this publication that they have the names of three persons who they believe might have had something to do with Milton’s death.
Asked whether the shooting could have been as a result of a deal went wrong, a police source said that investigators believe that vendetta is the possible motive.
At the scene yesterday, Kaieteur News was told that the father of four was drinking and playing a game of cards with a group of men when a man walked up behind him and said, “I looking for you (expletive) long” and opened fire.
A man who claims to be an eyewitness to the shooting opined that Milton met his death in a “jokey way.”
“Everybody thought it was a joke. This man (shooter) just walk up behind he dressed in a hoodie and mask, say those five words and shoot he. People thought it was a prank, because who would walk into a crowded yard and kill somebody and it’s not like there was more than one shooter to watch he (lone shooter’s) back. We thought it was somebody joking around with a mask” the eyewitness said.
At Milton’s home yesterday, his sister, Abby Weekes said that she was at her home when her mother telephoned her and asked if she heard what had happened to her brother.
“I said no and she said that my brother’s child mother called and tell her that Orvin get shoot and he was at the hospital so I asked her if she didn’t call him home early and she said that she called him at 12:45 hrs on Wednesday and asked when he coming home and he tell her that he coming just now and hang up,” the sister added.

She said that her mother informed her that about 20 minutes after she talked to her son, she received a call from his fiancée who informed her that her son was at the hospital.
“She (her mother) come in a car and pick me up and then all of us went to the hospital. When we reach and went inside the room he was dead already,” Weekes recounted.
According to the woman, her brother who played football for Western Tigers was scheduled to play this coming Sunday. “He supposed to play and now he dead.”
Family members of the dead man are calling on the police to solve this case, since the family received no justice when Milton’s brother, Vibert Weekes, was gunned down some four years ago.
Weekes was killed a short distance away from the popular “Red Dragon” night club on Robb Street on January 09, 2010 by a lone shooter who was reportedly dressed in female attire.
“We got to get justice for Orvin because we got none for Vibert. The police need to do their work and ensure the suspect is captured,” Abby Weekes exclaimed.
Meanwhile, the recently launched “Impact Albouystown Project” came under some criticism yesterday with residents questioning, “Why have 20 policemen walking during the days and none in the nights.”
According to one resident, “during the day, when you look into the various streets in Albouystown, you seeing three to four policemen, and none of them can be seen in the nights.”
“During the day, you have petty crimes happening, but if you look back most people getting shoot during the nights, because most gambling and so happen when people come home from work,” the resident said.
Commander of ‘A’ Division Clifton Hicken, during a brief telephone interview, said that police patrols were always present in the area during the nights but not on foot.
“We always have police patrolling the area, but as of today (yesterday) we have put ranks to patrol the area on foot.”

UPDATE: Former Tutorial High School student shot dead on Main Street

May 9, 2014 6:17 pmCategory: latest newsA+ / A-

Former boxer’s battered body found at

Ruimveldt

 
A father of seven was yesterday morning found dead on the Ruimveldt main road opposite DiDCO in what is suspected to be a hit and run accident. However, the lack of evidence to support this theory has left the family of 48-year-old Trevor Colin Bumbury awaiting a post mortem examination to determine the cause of the man’s demise. Bumbury’s younger brother, Ozah Edwards told Kaieteur News last evening that he was preparing for work yesterday morning when he received a call from an aunt asking him to make his way to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Edwards said that when he arrived there, he was told that his brother had been in an accident and was in an unconscious state. However, when Edwards saw his brother’s body, the man was already dead.
Edwards told this publication that he only saw injuries to his brother’s head, and there was nothing else to indicate that he had been hit by a vehicle or that he was involved in an accident. Edwards explained that his brother had a single wound to the back of the head. “There was a hole at the back of his head where blood was coming out from. There was also a cut over his nose and his face was swollen as if he was lashed in the face.”

Edwards said that in his opinion, his brother may have been attacked from behind by more than one person. He said his brother is a former boxer who was well built and could have “handled himself.” The brother said however that he is unaware if anyone would have wanted to harm his older sibling.
Bumbury’s oldest son, Trevor Junior Edwards said he last saw his father around 04:00am yesterday morning when he was awakened by him as he left for work at the Meadow Bank wharf where he operated a small shop.  Young Edwards said his father was drinking with friends on Saturday evening and then went to bed before heading out to work.
The youngster said that about 07:00am the following day, he received a call from his ex-girlfriend who asked if it was true that his father had died. After making checks, the 19-year-old said he confirmed the information and made his way to the Public Hospital but was unable to see his dad.
Edwards said his father was an easygoing person and he too is unaware whether someone would have wanted to hurt him. He too is anxiously awaiting the post mortem results. Kaieteur News understands that Bumbury’s body was discovered by a police officer and he was taken to Georgetown Public Hospital

Unidentified man found dead in Norton Street drain

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If it is not murder, or chopping up or hanging or drinking poison, or shooting to death, now we have to deal with the

“Possessed” woman found dead in drain

A 43-year-old Craig, East Bank Demerara (EBD) woman, who was reportedly “possessed by spirits” for the past four days, was found dead early yesterday in a shallow drain a few houses away from her residence.
Dead is Marcel Cummings, a mother of five of Lot 183 Craig, EBD.
Her body was discovered in the drain around 06:00 hrs yesterday by villagers.
According to the dead woman’s brother, Ivor Cummings, since last Tuesday, his sister who works at the Pritipaul Singh Investments, started to behave in a really strange manner.

 

“She was behaving as if she was possessed. She wasn’t sleeping in the nights, she just praying loud, loud and waking up the whole neighbourhood. She was stamping the floor and saying the ‘Blood of Jesus is against you. Get out, Get out’.”
Ivor Cummings said that at first he did not think his sister was possessed because she was praying to Jesus and she called up all her friends and family members and prayed for them.
According to Cummings, his sister prayed for persons and pleaded with them to change their bad ways and welcome the Lord in their lives.
“We couldn’t do anything because she wasn’t doing anything bad. She wasn’t cursing, she was just praying and her family members even prayed with her,” the brother stressed.
He explained that during the day his sister was normal- she cooked, cleaned and did everything a mother would do, but in the nights, she prayed continuously and chased “spirits” out of her yard.
Cummings said on one occasion his sister got up at 03:00hrs and was walking around in the yard with olive oil in her hands, chasing the “demon” out.
“She went into all the apartments and prayed for everyone. We even prayed with her. The next day, two pastors came to the house to pray with her and she was even praying more than the pastors, and louder,” Cummings said.
He added that his sister was involved in a triangular love affair and he has his suspicions.
“Since she started behaving like that, she kept saying that she was wrong to get involved with a married man and that Jesus has forgiven her for that.”
Cummings explained that a few hours after his sister left home for work on Saturday he received a call from one of her colleagues who informed him that his sister “tek in.”
“When I went to collect her, I see her lying on the floor with her hands stretched out and I could have seen that the other workers were scared of her. I put her in the car and take her home and she said that she see a lot of evil around her that is why she started praying at her work place.”
Cummings further added that when his sister reached home, she went up to her room and started to write in an exercise book.
“When the place got dark, she came downstairs and she asked my other sister to borrow a long electrical cord to take upstairs. She said that she has to complete her writing by (Saturday night). Later Saturday, we didn’t want to leave her alone so my sister slept with her and she said that Marcel blindfold her eyes and she was walking around in the room, praying.”
Cummings told Kaieteur News that a little before 06:00 hrs on Sunday when his sister woke up, she noticed Marcel was missing.
“She went outside and saw a crowd and she thought that Marcel was “possessed” again so she sent her son who discovered that his aunt was dead. We then went up to her room and when we read the book she wrote, it had her experience in Trinidad, her affair with a married man and it also had, if we miss her, we must check in the drain,” Cummings told this publication, acknowledging that his sister might have predicted the way she would die.
Marcel Cummings leaves to mourn her five children and five siblings.

I wonder what is happening in Guyana:?

and these are some that make it into the news,there is lots more that go un report  

Yugi, this your village people. No?

Pressure mek a pipe buss.

 

Poor people who cannot flee from Guyana are offing themselves. Guyana has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

Mother of four-month old stabbed to death by estranged partner

• Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:16
• Written by Demerara Waves

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