Aubrey Norton and former Minister David Patterson speak to the press outside the home of former director of sport, Christopher Jones.

Payback is a bytch.

The police has a right to search a suspect's residence, BUT can they do so  without a search warrant ? Maybe only in Guyana. 

This reminds me of the old days in the logies. When a manager accompanied by the police, would LITERALLY kick open the front door and search for suspected stolen sugar. All the kids in the house would start crying from fear. 

Indians would tell false stories about other Indians and most times nothing was found.  

Somebody hollering 'Murder'.   The Police made a mistake and the PPP is being blamed for this episode.  It was OK when Ramjattan and Moses went after the PPP in 2015 but it is not Ok now. A large crowd is gathering in front of Jones's residence behaving badly.

@Ramakant-P posted:

Somebody hollering 'Murder'.   The Police made a mistake and the PPP is being blamed for this episode.  It was OK when Ramjattan and Moses went after the PPP in 2015 but it is not Ok now. A large crowd is gathering in front of Jones's residence behaving badly.

Looks like beefstake!!! probably political direction .

@Django posted:

Looks like beefstake!!! probably political direction .

The office that is responsible for state assets has been closed.  Somebody had to give the order. I believe that it came from the Public service Ministry.

APNUAFC

Police still storming Christopher Jones's home

@Ramakant-P posted:

A large crowd is gathering in front of Jones's residence behaving badly.

The crowd was not behaving badly, they were showing support for another person in distress, something Indians don't have the balls to do. Other than stand around quiet and do nothing.    

Police attempt to search PNCR’s Chris Jones’ home for “state assets”; he calls it “wicked political vindictiveness”

 August 20, 2020  Source

The items stored at Christopher Jones’ residence.

Police on Thursday night turned up at the Tucville, Georgetown home of People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) executive member Christopher Jones to conduct a raid for several pieces of barbershop equipment worth more than GYD$4 million that were funded by a government project.

Up to about 8:30 PM, police from the Major Crimes Unit were outside Jones’ residence where party supporters thronged in solidarity with the former Director of Sport.

He told News-Talk Radio Guyana 103,1 FM/ Demerara Waves Online News that the law enforcement agents said they were there for “asset recovery”- barber chairs and air condition units  but he refused to let them inside on the grounds that they needed a search warrant.

Mr. Jones slammed the police action, saying that that was all part of a witch-hunt by the 18-day old People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-led  administration. “This is political vindictiveness and nothing else but set out to embarass me and I am pretty certain it is going to happen to quite a few other persons. It is wicked political vindictiveness,” he said.

He said a proposal was approved and the items procured under the then Ministry of Social Protection’s Sustainable Livelihood and Entrepreneurial Development (SLED) programme. “I have no idea that I have State assets in my possession,” Mr. Jones said.

He explained that the items were stored away until the recent political storm over the outcome of the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections as over before construction of the barber shop commenced.

Attorney-at-Law Darren Wade (left) and Christopher Jones speaking with Acting Chief Justice Brassington Reynolds. A request was made for an injunction to restrain the police from searching Mr. Jones premises unlawfully.

In audit documents released by the Minister of Public Affairs Kwame McCoy, GYD$$4.084 million was paid to Dominion Enterprise and GYD$$900,999 to Gafsons Industries were paid in June , 2019. The audit document states that “a physical inspection of the assets purchased revealed that items valuing $4.084M were still not put into use, since these items were stored in a room at the residence of the beneficiary Mr. Christopher Jones.” The items are 18 Apollo professional barber chairs worth GYD$2,556,000 and one condensing unit 208/230 voltage air handler single piece electric kit valued GYD$1,528,000.

Further, the audit states that details of a letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Social Protection dated 22 May 2019, states that the items were to be procured for the beneficiary who ‘operates’ a barber shop.

The document, however, states that at the time of the physical verification it was discovered that the beneficiary does not operate a barber shop, since construction of the said barber shop has not yet commenced.

Mr. Jones insisted that all of the procedures were followed and there was nothing irregular about the transaction.

Attorney-at-Law Darren Wade said the police refused to speak with acting Chief Justice Brassington Reynolds via WhatsApp to hear their side. Mr. Wade said constitutional relief would be sought from the High Court on Friday.

Speaking with reporters outside Mr. Jones’ residence, PNCR Executive Member Aubrey Norton vowed that the PPP would not be allowed to behave in the same manner as they had done during their 1992 to 2015 administration. Mr. Norton also urged police not to execute unlawful instructions. “The Guyana Police Force must know that they are expected to uphold the law, not violate the law by going and search people  while protecting criminals,” he said.

Referring to the police killing of people during that PPP administration, Mr. Norton vowed that “we will bring out our supporters and fight them; they will kill no more of us.”

A PNCR supporter, who was at the scene, said there was a power outage in the area of Jones’ residence all afternoon.

Dem guys wan back their chairs fo start up another Barbershop Construction Company" 

In order to correct the corruption of the past 5 years the current government has to take strict and drastic steps which will sometimes include search and seizures. The search has to be legal though. The question is why are these items stores at Jones' residence and where is he really in the construction of that barber shop. Or is that barber shop construction just a ruse.

I observed two grammatical errors in that order but only one was corrected. An order being issued by a court should not have grammatical errors. Especially when they include members of the PNC who have tendencies to hang dearly to single words in documents in order to evade doing the right things.

The Police were there to kill anybody. There were there to recover stolen assets by Chris Jones. Norton can say all he likes but he is not going to get away with this. Creating violence is what the PNC does best.

They couldn't run a country. What can they do besides creating disturbances?

Good thing the PPP won.

@Tola posted:

The police has a right to search a suspect's residence, BUT can they do so  without a search warrant ? Maybe only in Guyana. 

This reminds me of the old days in the logies. When a manager accompanied by the police, would LITERALLY kick open the front door and search for suspected stolen sugar. All the kids in the house would start crying from fear. 

Indians would tell false stories about other Indians and most times nothing was found.  

You lie!

These criminals forgot that they did the same to the PPP in 2015. They created a whole new department to harass the PPP members. They then took the assets and kept them for themselves.

@Ramakant-P posted:

These criminals forgot that they did the same to the PPP in 2015. They created a whole new department to harass the PPP members. They then took the assets and kept them for themselves.

You lie.

@Mitwah posted:

You lie.

They did too and you know it. It is well documented.