Trio robbed of car, US currency shortly after arrival in Guyana

November 27, 2014 1:26 pm Category: Crime A+ / A-

The woman recalled that at one point, her husband attempted to sit up but the police “tek one of the long gun and stomp he on he back”.

Seems like another Police Brutality.

Body recovered from East La Pentience trench

The Police Public Relations Office at Eve Leary, Georgetown in response to an article published in the Kaieteur News on Thursday under the caption, “Police offer no help to drowning man – La Penitence residents say” stated that “about 18:40hrs on November 26, a female resident of the East La Penitence Squatting Area reported to the police at the East La Penitence Police Station that an unidentified man of East Indian descent was in the canal south of the station and shouting for “help”.
The police said that several police ranks, including a Subordinate Officer responded. With the use of flashlights, as it was dark, and assistance from residents of the community who were met at the scene, the police made efforts to locate the man in the canal.
“However, their efforts were unsuccessful, even though a member of the community also went into the canal and carried out a search.”
The body was recovered about 07: 00h on Friday.
However, residents of the nearby squatting area said that alarms were raised around 6:00 am. A little girl was the first to see the floating body from her bedroom window. She then turned to her sister exclaiming, “That’s not the man?”
Anne, the little girl’s mother, said that the body was face down in the water and when she turned him over his face appeared to be beaten in. She said that they reported the matter to the police station and that the police came down to investigate the situation around 8:30hrs.
A farmer said, “It look like someone beat he. I hear the man go fah rob a man, and the man get vex and throw he on the concrete and he ‘black out’. Then I hear he drag the body to the trench and leff he there.  Residents told Kaieteur News that when the man regained consciousness he stumbled and fell in the trench.
When asked why no one offered to help the man, the unanimous response was, “We couldn’t do nun; he de done go under.”
Kaieteur News understands that one of the residents who helped to uncover the remains of the drowned man was his uncle who said that the dead man’s name was Toolsie, and that he came looking for him when he realized that he was missing from the East La Penitence ‘Night Shelter’ across the street.
An orderly from the Night Shelter told Kaieteur News that they have yet to see the body and therefore cannot confirm if he is indeed one of their residents.

Gun-toting carjackers steal another taxi

A driver from City Taxi Service is counting his losses after three gun-toting bandits escaped with his Toyota Carina after dragging him out of his vehicle at around 01.45 hrs last Wednesday.
Nazir Khan, 57, of Lot 1427 Eighteenth Avenue, Diamond Housing Scheme, said that the incident occurred a few yards from the East Ruimveldt Secondary School.
Kan said that he was sitting in his vehicle, HC1608, at the taxi service base on Vlissengen Road, Newtown, when a young man came up and asked for a lift to Mandela Avenue.
The man, whom Khan estimated to be between the ages of 21 and 25, said he heading around “the secondary school area” and entered the car. The driver said they sat in silence and when they approached the school, the “passenger” told him to turn right and stop at the first flat house on the left.
“When I stop by the flat house, thinking he coming off, two other guys come out from one of the stalls they have there. One of them put a gun to my head, open the door and they throw me out into a pool of mud,” Khan described.
The taxi driver went on to say that the two men entered the vehicle and he was forced to watch them drive away. Covered in mud, he said he made his way to the East La Penitence Police Station where he reported the matter.
Khan explained to this publication that the car belongs to his daughter, Meezan Singh.
He said that she had bought the vehicle two years ago and is still making down payments. The payments are expected to be completed in October 2015.
“I feel upset and hurt about this. At this time of the year when I’m working hard and trying to ‘catch me hand’ they come and do this,” Khan lamented.
The driver added that he had been operating as a taxi driver for 27 years and this is the first time his vehicle has been carjacked.
“This is not fair. For someone to be working hard to make ends meet and someone just come and take it away from you…this really hurts me and I would be glad if I could get it back.”
Last week, another taxi driver Fharis Mohamed, was forced to flee from his vehicle after a gun-toting carjacker attacked him.
Mohamed works with an Eleventh Avenue, Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara taxi service and said that the incident occurred a few yards from his place of employment. The driver said that he was sitting in his vehicle, PSS 9658, taking a phone call when the carjacker approached him.
It was just two weeks after he bought his Toyota Spacio and like Khan he is still making payments for the vehicle.

Corriverton man killed in brutal robbery attack

One man is dead after his family was attacked and brutally beaten by armed bandits who invaded their home at

Outar Ramphal

Corriverton, Corentyne.  During the attack, his elderly mother was also badly beaten by the bandits who demanded cash and jewelry from the family.
Dead is Outar Ramphal, 50, of Lot 54 Princeton, Corriverton, Corentyne, Berbice. He was pronounced dead on arrival at The Skeldon Hospital while his elderly mother Champwattie Ramphal 74, was admitted for treatment.
The man and his elderly mother were at their Princetown, Corriverton home on Sunday when their house was invaded around 23:00hrs. Four men, three of whom were armed with firearms, entered the house occupied by the two residents who were brutally beaten as the thieves demanded cash and jewelry. Relatives are reporting that $35,000, a finger ring and a pair of boots were stolen.
However the police in their statement said that the house was ransacked, but nothing was reported to have been taken.
Recounting her ordeal the elderly woman stated that she, her son and great grandson were at home sleeping when they were attacked by the marauding bandits. The woman said that she pleaded with the men not to harm them because they are poor and have nothing.
She was bound and gagged. She was also stabbed as she tried to resist the bandits. The bandits also threatened to kill her great grandson who was on the bed with her by placing a knife on his neck.
Whilst she was being beaten two other bandits were beating her son who was sleeping in the living room. He was chopped about his body. He sustained several wounds to his head and back and was left lying in a pool of blood in an unconscious state.
The woman said that after the ordeal was over she was able to free herself and went downstairs and called out for help, but none came.
The police are working on number of theories. They woman is also worried why anyone would want to attack them since she and her family are poor. The woman is a pensioner and her son receives public assistance.
The man leaves to mourn his mother, two siblings and other relatives and friends.

Gunmen storm Sterling Products Ltd, kill guard

Gunmen stormed Sterling Products Limited around 18.45 hrs yesterday, killing a security guard and

Dead security guard Wilfred Steward

wounding a 41-year-old Indian national before fleeing empty handed from the Providence, East Bank Demerara Company.
Wilfred Stewart, 45, a Beharry Group of Companies security guard, of Graham’s Hall, East Coast Demerara, was shot in the groin and hip as he sat in a security hut, after the gunmen, who reportedly arrived in a silver-grey car, forced their way through the main gate.
Gabriel Dass, a 41-year-old Indian national and a Quality Assurance Chemist, was shot in the left foot by one of the gunmen who had entered the firm’s laboratory. He was treated at the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital.
Relatives of the slain guard said that he fathered two daughters and that his wife is expecting a third child. His mother, Gloria Stewart, said that her son had worked as a guard with the Beharry Group of Companies for over ten years.
Kaieteur News understands that evidence retrieved by Crime Scene ranks suggests that the bandits, numbering about six, were armed with rifles and handguns.
The brazen attack occurred a few metres from the Providence Police Station. However, investigators were reportedly to glean much from employees, who sources said “scattered all about” when the shooting started.
Chief Executive Officer Ramsay Ali told reporters that the bandits arrived by car and that they attempted to force their way into the cashier’s office.
He confirmed that security cameras are installed on the premises.
An eyewitness who narrowly escaped the same fate as the slain guard told Kaieteur News that he and Stewart were in the security hut when a car stopped outside the compound.
He said that “at least ten men,” emerged from the vehicle and barged through the gate.
“This car was packed. It looked like more than 10 men were in the car and they were sitting on each other foot. As soon as this car stopped, all the men run into the compound and started to shoot. When I see them I run and hide in the

Wounded chemist Gabriel Dass

yard next door,” the eyewitness said.
He added that the bandits saw when he ran and two of the masked men pursued him.
“Them see when I run and two of them run to find me but they didn’t see when I pulled out a mesh on the fence and hide in the next yard so they were searching the compound for me.”
He added that while fleeing he heard the gunmen discharge about three gunshots at Stuart.
“My wife didn’t want me to come to work this morning (yesterday) but I tell her I have to go. This man (Stewart) was suppose to go on leave but he stayed back,” the distraught man said.
Indian national, Gabriel Dass, who has been working with Sterling products Limited for the past three months, said that he was in the laboratory when he heard screams.  He said before he could have peeped out to see what the commotion was about, a masked man pushed the door open and pointed a gun at him.
“We are upstairs, and before I could have reached the door, he run up to me and asked where the money was. I showed him my bag and he just shoot me and walked out. He didn’t check my bag,” the injured man said while receiving treatment late last night at the East Bank Demerara Regional Hospital.
When Kaieteur News arrived on the scene several terrified employees were milling around in the compound, while police ranks took statements from eyewitnesses.
The slain guard’s body remained in the security hut for at least two hours before porters from the Lyken Funeral Parlour took the corpse away

Interior shopkeeper dead in robbery

Police in the interior are on the hunt for three men who invaded a shop at Mango Landing,

Linden McAlmont called “Stone”

Essequibo River, killing the owner, Linden McAlmont, and robbing his wife of raw gold and cash.
McAlmont, called ‘Stone’, 50, of Annandale, East Coast Demerara, was shot three times during the attack, which occurred around 01:30 hours on Monday. He was officially pronounced dead hours later at the Mahdia Hospital Mortuary.
Police said in a statement yesterday that the three men, one armed with a firearm and the others with knives, entered McAlmont’s shop at Mango Landing and held him up, along with his wife, Maureen.
According to the police, during the incident, McAlmont was shot about his body and his wife was robbed of her jewellery by the perpetrators who escaped.
A source in the Mahdia area told this newspaper that McAlmont’s is the only shop in the location and the bandits took advantage of the deserted area.
The source said that the men told McAlmont that they came for the gold.
“He wife tell he give dem de gold but he resisted and de man with de gun fire off three shots dat hit he in he chest,” the source stated.
He added that after seeing her husband lying motionless on the ground, his wife handed over an ounce of gold and $30,000 to the men.
The bandits raided a couple of rooms at the location, beating the lone occupant about his body before relieving him of a cellular phone.
When the men left, the victims managed to contact the police at Mahdia who subsequently visited the scene and brought McAlmont’s body to the Mahdia Mortuary.
The dead man’s sister, Maureen Shepherd, who resides in Berbice, told this newspaper that she received a message from another relative who said that McAlmont’s wife had called to say that there was a robbery and that “Stone get shoot”.
At the time she was not told that he had died.
She said that she tried calling several numbers to ascertain her brother’s condition.
The woman said that she later learnt that McAlmont was dead.

Will it take years before Rip Van Winkle Rohee wakes up?

Unschooled rohee will never wake up. He simply does not know how to wake up.

He is a business man now big into real estate and rental property. 

It is time to fire the PPP. If anyone performed so poorly in their job they would be immediately terminated, The PPP have got to be sent packing.

Crane housewife murder…Suspect is somewhere in the city – Commander

Almost five months have passed and the whereabouts of 44-year-old Vidol Anthony Rawlins,

Vidol Anthony Rawlins, his wife and step daughter in happy times.

who is accused of murdering his wife at their Lot 4 Crane Housing Scheme home, on July 18, last, remain unknown.
Hours after the police found the nude body of the 30-year-old housewife with a stab wound to her neck and a confession letter signed by her spouse, lying beside her, a search was launched.
To date, the suspect has managed to stay one step ahead of the police.
Yesterday, ‘D’ Division Commander, Ian Amsterdam, in an interview with this newspaper said that ranks have been searching for the suspect but he keeps moving.
The commander added that his division received information some time last month that the 44-year-old man was staying at a relative in Georgetown but when the ranks showed up, there was no sign of him.
He further revealed that his ranks have not given up on this case. He is convinced that the suspect will be caught and placed before the Court.
A relative of the murdered housewife had told this publication that they had received information that one of the man’s relatives is hiding him in the city.
However, relatives claimed that the suspect moved from that location and is hiding in Berbice.
“The people said that he moved from there, so I guess he keeps moving from one location to another,” the relative said.
This newspaper was told that the suspect was spotted in Crane, West Coast Demerara and in Alberttown, Georgetown.
The police said that Rawlins had bound and gagged his stepdaughter before stabbing her mother in the neck.
According to a police source close to the investigation, the 11-year-old girl informed them that she was in her room when she heard her stepfather demanding sex from her mother.
She said that she did not take the noise too serious because constant quarrelling was a norm in the home.
“She said she went back to sleep. The next day when she wake up, the stepfather taped her mouth and tied her up in a chair,” a police source explained.
He added that the girl claimed that she managed to untie herself after some time and ran to her mother’s room.
“When she see her mother she start scream and she run and call out for the neighbours who then informed us,” the police source said.
No one reported hearing any noise coming from the house. Neighbours had said that the couple fought and quarreled very often.

Tattooed man’s remains found at Windsor Forest

Police are trying to ascertain the identity of a man whose badly decomposed and heavily tattooed remains were found at Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara, around 08.30 hrs yesterday.
Kaieteur News understands that the fair-complexioned victim, who was clad only in three-quarter denim pants, was found near a koker in an area known as ‘Fisherman’s Quarters.’
He appears to be of East Indian ancestry and is about five feet, five inches tall. The drawings of several girls are tattooed on his stomach. Words are also tattooed on his right arm, but these could not be deciphered because of the decomposed state of the corpse. It is unclear whether foul play was involved.
The body was taken to the Ezekiel Funeral Parlour.

Man stabbed to death at mother’s wake

A family already in grief has been plunged into more sorrow following the stabbing to death of a man who was acting as a peacemaker at his mother’s wake.
Dead is Surujpaul Ramnarine 51, a father of five, of Blairmont Village, West Bank Berbice. Reports are that Ramnarine was stabbed in his chest around 12:10 hrs on Saturday morning after he intervened in an argument between the man who killed him and his nephew.
At the time family members and relatives were holding a wake for Ramnarine’s mother at Rosignol, West Bank Berbice. The woman died last Tuesday.
According to information, the suspect is an in-law of the dead woman. He had been making threats earlier.
Ramnarine reportedly tried to tell his assailant to behave himself since he was at a wake house and that his behaviour was not appropriate. With that the man took out a knife which he had concealed on his person and plunged it into the region of Ramnarine’s stomach.  He then bolted.
On being stabbed Ramnarine staggered into the yard, and collapsed. He was picked up and rush via car to the Fort Wellington Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The man who lost his wife in July lived with one of his daughters. He worked as a labourer in the rice industry.   He would return home occasionally. He had returned on this occasion after the death of his mother who is due to be buried today.
Ramnarine also lost his nephew during October last year. Vickram Ramnarine, called ‘Boy’, 29, was found floating in a canal at Abary, West Coast Berbice. His body had marks of violence.
Relatives described the dead man as a quiet, simple and friendly individual who would not get into trouble with anybody.
The man who stabbed Ramnarine is a father of five, including a 10-day-old infant.
Investigations are ongoing.