Taxi driver escapes unhurt after carjacking at McDoom

A carjack victim cheated death after a thief sped off with his motorcar, at Middle Street, McDoom, East Bank Demerara (EBD) on Friday. This happened around 20:00hrs. Henesha Veersammy, a taxi driver attached to the King of Diamond Taxi Service, in Diamond, East Bank Demerara, is now counting his lucky stars after he escaped unhurt following the ordeal that lasted about five minutes. Veersammy, 21, of Section A, First Street, Diamond, said that an individual came to the taxi service base requesting a car to go to McDoom. The young driver said that the man clad in an orange jersey, then jumped into the front passenger seat of his silver Toyota Premio and they proceeded to his destination. He recalled that during the 20-minute ride he had no interaction with his passenger. He disclosed that the man requested that he stop the car at Middle Street, McDoom and he complied. Veersammy explained that when the car stopped he noticed another man standing at the corner dressed in a white T Shirt. He recalled that his passenger hurriedly exited his vehicle without paying him and the other individual standing at the corner handed him a gun. He said that the gunman placed the gun to his head and demanded that he exit the vehicle. His accomplice then jumped into the car and sped off. Veersammy, who still appeared traumatized, said that the gunman took him to a trench in the usually dark and lonely area and ordered him to lie “face down”, while gun butting him to the head. “He then ordered me to walk over the trench and don’t look back,” He said that he was frightened and prayed continuously for the gunman to not shoot him. Fearful for his life, the young man walked over the trench and ended up in a dark bushy area. When he turned around the gunman had already fled the scene. With his pants soaking wet and muddy, Veersammy added that he walked over to Shell Gas Station, a corner away from Middle Street, and sought refuge. He said that he saw a man with a motorcycle and told him of the incident. The man who was very kind hearted took him to the Ruimveldt Police Station, where the incident was reported. The suspects are still at large as the police continue their investigations. Veersammy said that this was the first time something of this nature had happened to him and that he has no intentions of returning to the profession. Veersammy is pleading with the general public to contact him on telephone # 613-2675 or the nearest police station if they spot the car bearing number plate PPP 5064 in their environs, since he is still paying installments on the vehicle.

Govt now to craft anti-crime strategy

asj on the job

BREAKING NEWS…Four bandits captured after brutal attack on female judge, husband in gated community

 

Quick work by an armed security guard and police led to the capture today of four bandits who had inflicted a brutal beating on Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre and her husband, after storming an East Coast Demerara gated community in which the couple live.

Pierre, 43,and her husband, businessman Mohamed Chand, 50, were attacked while asleep at around 01. 30 hrs today at Felicity, a gated community on the East Coast of Demerara. They were brutally gun-butted and had to be admitted to a private hospital.

However, the gunmen were captured shortly after and have been detained at the Sparendaam Police Station. A money-safe containing foreign currency and jewellery, and a briefcase were recovered, along with the suspects’ getaway car.

Kaieteur News understands that a female Special Constable was in one of the guard huts at Felicity, when she saw the several men scale the wall. The men reportedly then gagged and bound the unarmed Special Constable, before proceeding to the three-storied house which was occupied by Justice Pierre, Mr. Chand and their 11-year-old son. Smashing through a window, the bandits then headed for the bedroom in which the couple lay asleep. They proceeded to gun-butt Justice Pierre and Mr. Chand, before carting off a small money-safe and a briefcase.

But an armed security guard at a businessman’s property saw the robbers, numbering about six, scaling the wall with their loot. The men also spotted the guard and heavy gunfire was exchanged between the guard and the bandits.

Overwhelmed by the guard’s firepower, the bandits dropped the safe and briefcase and fled in their car.

Police were alerted and captured the suspects minutes after, while the security guard handed over the stolen safe and briefcase.

 (SEE S EXTENSIVE STORY AND PHOTOS IN TOMORROW’S ISSUE. )

Ramjattan appears to be clueless on combatting this crime wave. He had all the answers before the election and now appears to be the most incompetent minister in APNU.

 

He must step up to the plate or move aside.

 

Parhaps your mother wished she had the morning after pill.

 

Coat hangers are not guaranteed to work

Guyana is a nation of sheep.

 

It is time the Citizens organise against criminals.

Vigiliante?

Welcome to the "emancipated" Guyana.

Base

 

Our friend ASJ wanted Guyana emancipated. Well, massa days are returning.

People should aim to turn most of Berbice into an independent country for PPP and Roar supporters then deal with these criminal elements.

Hasn't the PPP stolen enough land from the buck population?

The state owns all the lands in the country not the buck people.  The PPP already gave the Amerindians thousands of acres of lands.   What did they do with the land?

BREAKING NEWS!  SUSPECTED BANDIT KILLED, ACCOMPLICE,  COP WOUNDED IN CRAIG SHOOTOUT

Police believe that they have smashed a major criminal gang, following an operation early this morning in First Street, Craig, East Bank Demerara that left one man dead, and another suspect and a police rank wounded.

The slain man, so far unidentified, was shot after ranks from Grove Police Station and Georgetown cornered several suspected criminals in an apartment. Another suspect, identified as Warren Mackenzie, 22, of Brutus Street, Agricola, was shot in the stomach and is undergoing surgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. Mackenzie was previously charged for armed robbery when he was 19.

Police recovered at least one firearm from the scene, and detained about six other suspects.

Kaieteur News understands that the ranks, apparently acting on intelligence, surrounded the house, which has several apartments, at around 02.00 hrs today. One tenant recalled hearing a ‘tumbling’ and someone shout ‘nobody move’, before gunfire erupted.

Residents later saw police ranks removing two badly wounded men from an apartment, located at the front of the building. Sources said that several known criminals were in the apartment at the time.

Indications are that the men may be linked to several armed robberies and at least one murder, including two heinous attacks that occurred on the West Coast of Demerara and on the East Coast of Demerara.

(SEE PHOTOS AND EXTENSIVE COVERAGE IN TOMORROW’S EDITION)     

The crime situation

The armed robberies and the domestic murders seem to be continuing at an even more frenetic pace causing people to talk about a spike in crime. The statistics would show that indeed over the past two months there has been a spike in what the police call disorderly murders. These are murders that result from two people having a misunderstanding and one of them resorting to deathly force. Then there are the execution-type murders. So far there has been one with the killing of Travis Rudder. Just before the elections, an ex-policeman was shot dead in a minibus. More recently, there was the attempt on Bevon Chung which was listed as abduction. But there were the armed robberies, more in Berbice than anywhere else. Just two days ago, gunmen entered the home of a woman and shot her in the head. She is now fighting for her life. But just a few days earlier, gunmen stormed the home of Ganesh Ramlall, the owner of the Multiplex on Regent Street. They killed him and caused the business community to sit up and take notice. Before the week was out, gunmen stormed the home of Land Court Judge Nicola Pierre and proceeded to beat her and her husband. This clearly highlights the extent of lawless that now stalks the land. Guyana is not known to be a country where criminals attack officialdom. Of course officials have been attacked and robbed. In one case gunmen entered the home of a serving Magistrate and in addition to doing whatever they did, proceeded to rape her. During the crime wave of a decade ago, gunmen stormed the home of a government Minister and killed him and others who were in the house with him. We had another case of a Magistrate being attacked in her car but such attacks on people in authority are seldom. What is happening today seems to be orchestrated on the larger scale. Indeed there are the petty criminals who are jumping on the crime bandwagon. For example they rob people who have little or nothing. One young man on a bicycle attacked and robbed a newspaper vendor in an East Bank Demerara community early Friday morning. This is merely an extension of the trend that sees very young men on bicycle seeking easy target, sometimes coming away with little more than $2,000. But it is the bigger picture that is worrying. The Minister of State on the Ministry of the Presidency said that someone has to be providing the getaway vehicles and the guns. These are also the people who identify the targets. A man leaves a commercial bank and immediately a gunman latches on to him. Someone in the bank, could be an accomplice of the gunman, is keeping tabs on people going there to do business. If it is an accomplice then the bank is careless to allow people to loiter in the bank to observe the dealings of the customers. But then again it could be a teller passing on the information. This has long been suspected but never proven. The police may wish to check the phone records of tellers in the wake of a robbery. We may find that such attacks may come to an end. When people were robbed coming from the Cheddi Jagan International Airport it was thought that there was assistance from the people in the airport. Such robberies came to a screeching halt when the police arrested some of their own who once patrolled the East Bank Demerara corridor. But it is the mastermind, a leading businessman who has information about his colleagues. When there is an attack such as the one on the home of the Land Court judge, one must ask to whom the victim talked when he purchased a quantity of foreign currency.  Who buys the stolen jewellery and fences them? The police have their work cut out for them yet with enough cash to lure informers many of these criminal acts could be halted.

"But it is the mastermind, a leading businessman who has information about his colleagues. When there is an attack such as the one on the home of the Land Court judge, one must ask to whom the victim talked when he purchased a quantity of foreign currency.  Who buys the stolen jewellery and fences them? The police have their work cut out for them yet with enough cash to lure informers many of these criminal acts could be halted."

 

 

Crooks you do business with them,then they set up

criminals to rob you.