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Jet Blue offers free flights for the funeral for officers wishing to attend the funeral - Associated Press

 

JetBlue Airways says it will offer free flights for police officers who want to attend the funeral of slain New York Police Department Officer Randolph Holder.

The company says it is honored to help shuttle the officers wishing to pay tribute to a fallen comrade.

Holder will be buried in Georgetown next Friday.

JetBlue said it would offer free flights to police officers who wanted to attend.
Jet Blue extended the same offer for the funerals of slain NYPD officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos who were killed in the line of duty last December.

Holder was shot in the head Tuesday evening as he responded to calls of shots fired and a bicycle stolen at gunpoint. Holder and his partner chased the suspect, who opened fire.

Police Commissioner William Bratton said at a news conference Wednesday that funeral arraignments for Officer Randolph Holder were still being finalized.

30-year-old Tyrone Howard was taken into custody after the shooting and is expected to be charged Wednesday. It isn’t clear whether he has a lawyer who could comment on the allegations.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the fatal shooting is another example of the growing crisis of gun violence.

Cuomo told reporters Wednesday that the slayings of police officers “has to stop.”

Holder, a native of Guyana, had five years on the job and worked in the anti-crime unit of PSA no. 5, a command that polices public housing developments in East Harlem and Harlem.

His father and his grandfather were both police officers here and Holder joined the NYPD after he moved to New York.

(Associated Press)

Kari

For Immediate Release

October 23, 2015

Contact: Hayden Horsham

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**Media Advisory** Candlelight Vigil for Slain Police Officer

State Senator James Sanders Jr., the 106th Police Precinct and the Richmond Hill Economic Development Council will join the Guyanese community for a candlelight vigil to honor slain Police Officer Randolph Holder, who was gunned down in East Harlem on Tuesday night. His father, Randolph Holder Sr., will be in attendance. Senator Sanders calls upon people of good will to come out and stand with the family. 
Date: Saturday, October 24, 2015 Time: 6:30 p.m. Location: Outside of Sybil's Bakery and Restaurant               13217 Liberty Ave, Richmond Hill, NY 11419

Bring a candle. 

Vish M
Originally Posted by Bibi Haniffa:
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by Bibi Haniffa:

The funeral was held yesterday in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York.

I did not hear that, do you mean wake??

Sorry - yes - I meant a wake.  See details above for the funeral.

Officer

Thanks for the Info....we know you are not promoting yourself....

THANKS

FM
Originally Posted by Vish M:

Lets ensure that this is a true Guyanese event.

 

All Guyanese groups are invited.

 

Please bring your candle

Is State Senator James Sanders Jr., a Guyanese.

 

Is there any Guyanese City or State official asked to get involved.

 

Whose Idea was it to align this "True Guyanese Event" with State Senator James Sanders if he is not a Guyanese.

 

 

FM
Originally Posted by Jalil:
Originally Posted by Vish M:

Lets ensure that this is a true Guyanese event.

 

All Guyanese groups are invited.

 

Please bring your candle

Is State Senator James Sanders Jr., a Guyanese.

 

Is there any Guyanese City or State official asked to get involved.

 

Whose Idea was it to align this "True Guyanese Event" with State Senator James Sanders if he is not a Guyanese.

 

 
James Sanders, Jr.
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Member of the New York State Senate from the 10th district
Assumed office January 1, 2013
Preceded byShirley Huntley
 
 
In July 2009, Sanders was reported to have shown up for only 61% of City Council meetings for fiscal year 2009, the second-fewest on the list.[5]

 

 

 

Biography

Roxanne Persaud
Roxanne Jacqueline Persaud was elected to the Assembly in November 2014. Her election made her the first female to represent the 59th Assembly District. She lives in the Canarsie section of the district.

 

Assemblywoman Persaud is a longtime advocate for her community and an avid volunteer.  Her dedication to serving her community has motivated her to serve in various capacities. She was President of the 69th Precinct Community Council in Canarsie, member of Community Board 18 and Commissioner on the New York City Districting Commission. 
 
In addition, she is a graduate of the NYPD Citizens Police Academy as well as the New York City Office of Emergency Management-Community Emergency Response Team, member of Community Action Board of the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development and Chairperson of  the Neighborhood Advisory Board - District 18.  She also serves on organizations fighting domestic violence and cancer awareness.

 

Her dedication to community involvement and her interest in helping others stretches beyond Brooklyn.  She has traveled overseas on several occasions as a volunteer on medical and social outreach programs.  She encourages everyone to be actively involved in the community.

 

She was born in Guyana, South America and migrated to the United States with her parents and siblings. She is a graduate of Pace University from which she holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Education Administration.

 

Assemblywoman Persaud has spent her entire career working in higher education institutions and works tirelessly encouraging urban youth to attend college.

 

Her district legislative priorities include funding for schools, youth and senior support services, libraries and parks.  She intends to works with her colleagues in government to ensure that the 59th AD receives the resources that it should.

 

Assemblywoman Persaud is happy to serve the constituents of the 59th Assembly District.
 
FM
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Vigil for Slain Officer in Little Guyana Emphasizes Unity

Randolph Holder Sr., the father of the slain officer killed in East Harlem last week, with Sherry Holder, the officer's sister, second from right, at a vigil in Richmond Hill, Queens, on Saturday. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Randolph Holder Sr., the father of the slain officer killed in East Harlem last week, with Sherry Holder, the officer's sister, second from right, at a vigil in Richmond Hill, Queens, on Saturday. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times

 

 Vishnu according to New York Times

 

http://caribnewsdesk.com/news/...ana-emphasizes-unity

Reproduced from New York Times by Liz Robbins

 

For the 200 or so.....

(a) family, friends, (b) officers and (c) passers-by (Liberty Avenue Shoppers) who gathered in the triangular intersection off Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill, a neighborhood known as Little Guyana,

 

Further according to NY Times.....the modest vigil underscored a powerful message. “Unity is strength,” Mr. Holder said.

 

 

The area there is predominantly Indo-Guyanese, the majority ethnic group in Guyana. Late in the week, (1) the event’s organizing group asked (2) State Senator James Sanders Jr. of Queens to invite Mr. Holder, whose family is Afro-Guyanese.
When Mr. Holder accepted,.....(a) family, friends,

he brought 50 relatives and friends in several vans with a police escort. Together, the groups mourned by candlelight, dismissing ethnic divisions that have long marked their homeland.
“This has become an opportunity for us to become Guyanese all over again,” said Vishnu Mahadeo, the president of the Richmond Hill Economic Development Council, which organized the vigil.

“One of our own was shot down and we need to be there for each other.”

If as Guyanese ....we were trying to be there for one another....why do we Involve James Sanders ....when there are many Guyanese Officials and Groups we can work with?

 

 

(c) passers-by & Sybils Customers....another 50 Gloria Jardine, 58, came from the Bronx to shop for traditional Indo-Guyanese items. She learned of the vigil from a handwritten sign in Sybil’s Bakery and then stayed, she said, just to shake Mr. Holder’s hand.

 

Officer Holder’s death has resonated back in Guyana, and some diaspora leaders see a boomerang effect. Six months ago the country formed a new coalition government with leaders from both Afro- and Indo-Guyanese parties.

 

 (b) officers.....about 40

(d) Rickford Burke group another 50

“The country has been coming together, there has been a sense of healing, of reconciliation, of national pride,” said Rickford Burke, president of the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy, based in Brooklyn. “And that has affected the way people are approaching this tragedy — that period of oneness that has taken hold.”

 

 

Question besides the .....

(a) family, friends,(60)

(b) officers (40)

(c) passers-by & Sybills Customers (50)

(d) Rickford Burke Supporters (50)

 

where was the following or supporters of

(1) the event’s organizing group

(2) State Senator James Sanders Jr. of Queens.

 

Richmond Hill needs to Unite....

“Unity is strength,” Mr. Holder said.

Guyana Elections Over....PPP Lost...

Support and Promote your own Guyanese not James Sanders...

 

Or Rickford Burke and others

 will continue to highlight our Failures

in our own Back Yard.

Mitwah

President David Granger has extended sympathy to the family of the Guyanese born, New York Police Officer who was gunned down while in the line of duty earlier this week.

The 33-year-old policeman, Randolph Holder, was in his fifth year in the New York Police Department, when his life was cut short by a gunshot from a robbery suspect.

President Granger telephoned Holder’s grandmother, Elizabeth Lovell, who raised the young man and who still lives in Guyana, to express his sympathy.

The President said the young man was in the prime of his life.

The grandmother expressed appreciation for the call and said Holder was always a disciplined and ‘mannerly’ child. She told the President that because of the field of work he was in, he had always said that should anything happen to him; he would like to be returned to Guyana and buried with his mother.

His mother died when he was 16-years-old.

The fallen hero’s body will be flown into Guyana next Thursday, escorted by members of the NYPD for his burial. Funeral services will take place in both New York and in Guyana.

 

http://newssourcegy.com/news/p...yanese-nypd-officer/

Mitwah

“Unity is strength,”

Mits .......Do not Rub it in

Myself, Kari & Chief (and others on GNI)

defend Vishnu when he was taken advantage of.....

 

but Vishnu will talk about Unity....

and spread lies about sickness & Death of the PM.

 

Supporters were told it was a Richmond Hill Guyanese thing

but they found out it was Saunders Promotional Event

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Jagdeo & Ramotar tried the same thing

with Kwame, Bynoe, Phalorie Joe & Lamumba....

and look where it got them.

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“Unity is strength,”

Randolph Holder Sr., the father of the slain officer killed in East Harlem last week, with Sherry Holder, the officer's sister, second from right, at a vigil in Richmond Hill, Queens, on Saturday. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times

FM

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