“Corentyne Family robbed, terrorized; Four in police custody”

Aug 06, 2016 News 0 Comments

Police in ‘B’ Division have arrested four suspects in connection with an armed robbery of a Corentyne Family at Sea well Turn, Corentyne, in the wee hours of Friday morning.

The home that was robbed.

Six armed bandits stormed the home of popular businessman Deoram Woarti of Lot 2, Seawell Turn, Corentyne at about 3:00 am Friday morning.
According to the owner of the two story home, he was in bed when he heard the sound of someone walking on his roof.
He said that his sons’ aged 18 and 21, who occupy the top flat of the home, raised an alarm after realizing that bandits were on the building.
“Me big son seh don’t do we nothing. Then a shot fire and meh lil son try fah hide but them push de room door and drag he out.”
Woarti disclosed to Kaieteur News that they were beaten with a cutlass and a piece of wood by three of the bandits who demanded that they hand over cash and jewellery.
The traumatized victims handed over an undisclosed quantity of local currency and gold jewellery, one tablet and other valuables to the perpetrators who escaped into a nearby savannah.
According to the Commander of ‘B’ Division, Ian Amsterdam, police recovered two spent shells at the scene of the crime as investigations continue.

Angoy’s Avenue resident shot dead up Canje River

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An Angoy’s Avenue resident who traversed between his residence and various points up the Canje River, was reportedly shot dead Thursday evening at Cartina’s Burg, some 75 miles up the Canje River.
Dead is Andel Daniels, 19, of Caracas High Dam, West Canje Berbice.
Reports are that the teen would frequent between his home and the Canje River where his relatives originates from. He and others would reportedly do farming, at Catina’s Burg some two miles from Ikura and a further 20 miles from Bara Cara.
According to the teen’s grandfather, Lowell Amsterdam, who resides at Bara Cara, the family is not sure what happened. He was at the High Dam residence with other family members.
Amsterdam said that they received a call sometime around 21:30 hours that Andel was shot and seriously injured and that he was being transported to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
They journeyed to the New Amsterdam Hospital where they waited. He reportedly died on his way to the hospital. Reports are sketchy. However it was reported that the lad and others were hunting when he got shot. It was also reported that he was descending some stairs which collapsed. Daniels who was carrying a gun at the time was shot when the gun went off.
After he got shot he was placed on a canoe and ferried to Ikura. From there he was taken to the medical center at Bara Cara and then to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
The matter was reported to the Central Police Station and a team of officers was dispatched immediately to conduct investigations.
Adel’s mother, Gould Marcell Amsterdam, called ‘Massa’, 37, who was seven months pregnant at the time, went missing since August 2010.
The woman, who was a neighbourhood police rank at the time and a mother of three, was reported missing after she left to go and visit the father of one of her children, who lived next door.
The lad leaves to mourn two brothers and one sister. He was the eldest.
The gun has not been recovered.
Investigations are ongoing.

Bandits pistol whip, terrorize mother and son during robbery

Aug 06, 2016 News 0 Comments

A woman and her 14-year-old son were gun-butted and robbed Thursday night, when three armed bandits gained access to their home through a verandah.
This was around 21:30 hrs, approximately 20 minutes after the woman’s husband left their Second Street Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home, to pick up a relative, who was staying a few villages further up the coast.
The victims are Hurman Ganpha, 14, and his mother, Carol (only name given). The men escaped with a camera, two cellular phones and an undisclosed amount of local and Canadian currency.
According to information, the gunmen used a ladder, which was left in the yard by construction workers, and climbed onto the verandah. The door was unlocked.
“My son was on the couch with his cell phone and I was in the kitchen when I saw an object in the house. Then someone started pointing a gun. I was going to scream and he hit me in my head with the gun and then he hit my son in his face with it,” Carol recalled.
She said that the men kicked her son and placed a knife to her throat, threatening to kill her if all the valuables were not handed over to them.
“They searched all the rooms and my son gave them all that he knew we had because they say they will kill me. When they finished, they were asking for gold but I didn’t had any to give. I had sold my gold because it doesn’t make sense you have it and can’t wear it,” the woman said.
She added that just as the men were about to leave, they cut a sheet and tied both her and her son. But they managed to untie themselves and called for help.
Carol believes that the men might have been sent to her home by someone who would have visited her place some time back and noticed the ladder.
“My sister came in the country and she went to a birthday party. My husband left to go and pick her up when these people come into my home,” she said. She added that the men were all masked and might have been waiting on her spouse to leave.
Investigations are ongoing.

Man brutally beaten after grabbing ‘cheap phone’

Aug 09, 2016 News 0 Comments

A 30-year-old man, who received a sound thrashing yesterday, after he reportedly grabbed a “cheap

Levi Armstrong

phone” from someone in Enterprise, East Coast Demerara (ECD), is battling for his life at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Levi Armstrong, of Lot 222 Dazzell Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara (ECD) sustained multiple injuries and is attached to a life support machine in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.
According to reports, the 30-year-old man grabbed someone’s phone in Enterprise, but was attacked by a mob in the village. He was allegedly beaten with wood, steel and metal pipe and left to die on the roadway. Armstrong’s father, Brandy would only say, “I don’t know anything.”
Meanwhile, a friend of the 30-year-old man, Royan Frank, said that he received a call that his friend was brutally beaten and left to die in Enterprise. “When I got there, I saw him apparently lifeless and blood was all over the place.”
Frank said that when he tried to inquire from residents what transpired, no one wanted to speak to him.
“His jaw break, his foot and hand. They beat he bad, bad. The doctor tells me that he will die,” the man said.
Frank said that he is not sure if his friend indeed grabbed someone’s phone, but claimed that he was never involved in any criminal activities in the past.

Men dressed as women rob City Chinese store – One nabbed by public-spirited citizen

Aug 10, 2016 News 0 Comments

The bandit before he was escorted to the police station yesterday.

In a daring early morning robbery, four men clad in women’s attire attacked a popular Chinese-owned store on Regent Street yesterday before carting off an undisclosed sum of cash and articles.
According to reports, the men entered into the ‘Good Life Store’ sometime around 08:30 hrs and began to peruse the items on display. One was seen traversing in and out of the store as if he was carrying out surveillance, while the other three remained in the store.
One female worker, who told reporters that it was her first day on the job, said that the men then demanded that everyone ‘go on the ground’.
The distraught woman said that upon seeing this, she ran and hid in the store until the ordeal was over. It is unclear whether the men were armed.
Kaieteur News understands that after the robbery, the men broke off into groups of two as they stormed out of the store. One group fled in a yellow motor car, an eyewitness said, while the other duo proceeded toward a parked Honda CG Motorcycle.
A cyclist, who requested anonymity, said that he was passing by when he noticed one of the bandits fleeing the scene. He then went in pursuit of the two bandits and grabbed one of them as he was about to mount the cycle.
“I snatch he by he boxers, he partner pull off and I pull brakes and pull he off,” the man said while boasting that he was a former member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).
The Police were summoned where they escorted the bandit to the police station.

Sophia family robbed second time in two years

Aug 10, 2016 News 0 Comments

The injuries Bhim Singh sustained during the attack

A North Sophia businessman and his family were brutally attacked and robbed by three gunmen shortly after 21:00 hrs on Monday.
Bhim Singh, 52, told Kaieteur News that he had just parked his vehicle in his Lot B 17 North Sophia home, and was about to enter the house, when a man suddenly appeared before him and struck him repeatedly across the face with a handgun. Singh said that he lost consciousness after the severe pistol-whipping.
The man that struck Singh reportedly fired off two shots and barged into the house where he joined two accomplices and proceeded to savagely beat Singh’s wife and daughter.
His wife said that the men stomped her repeatedly as she lay on the floor, she said that they kept asking for money and ransacked the bottom flat before searching the building’s upper flat.
After their search didn’t unearth anything of much value, one of the bandits held a cutlass to Singh’s daughter and again demanded money while threatening to slash her throat. The young woman, fearing for her life, immediately handed over the cash that was in the house – $1,100 Canadian and G$48,000 in cash, along with jewellery.
After the cash was handed over, the trio made good their escape while firing more shots in the air. According to reports, a neighbour who saw the men running through the street shouted for help. Upon hearing that, the men reportedly fired three rounds at the neighbour’s house.
Singh said that when he regained consciousness, he immediately called the police, who arrived five minutes after the ordeal. He said that he found a fully loaded magazine in the yard and a spent shell, which he handed over to the police.
This is the second time in two years that the Singh family has been attacked by gunmen. In 2014, two men armed with handguns invaded their home, Singh however managed to fight off his assailants, who escaped.
The businessman said that he had applied for a firearm licence in 2012 which was acknowledged by then Commissioner, Leroy Brumell, but was given the “royal run around” at the Brickdam Police Station. He said that police officials told him that they lost his documents and that he would have to reapply. Singh subsequently reapplied earlier this year and he showed Kaieteur News a letter indicating that his application was received by the Commissioner of Police (ag) David Ramnarine.
He said that had he been granted a firearm licence, he believes that he would have been able to apprehend at least one of the bandits this time around.

Cocaine trafficking has seen an uptick under the pnc administration, leading many to question whether the govt is involved in the trafficking.

The packaged drugs contained inside the frozen fish

Cocaine found in frozen fish, shrimp at CJIA

August 10, 2016

 

OVER 194 pounds of cocaine was seized Tuesday evening in a quantity of frozen shrimp and fish at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), police confirmed.According to a police release the discovery was made at approximately 18:40h by ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch, who intercepted a cargo shipment of thirty five boxes of seafood of which eight contained a total of 88.2 kilos of cocaine.

The shipment was part of outgoing cargo at the CJIA, destined for New York.

This newspaper understands that a man from the West Coast of Demerara is in police custody as other main suspects are being sought.
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Crime continues unabated as the police claims that it has gone done.

The supermarket the bandits attacked.

Parfaite Harmonie businesswoman robbed, neighbours raise alarm

August 10, 2016

 

– praise police response

Bandits who robbed a businesswoman while she was closing her supermarket in at La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD) around 19:00 h Tuesday night escaped after neighbours raised an alarm, when they notice one of the gunmen escorting her into the upper flat of her building. The businesswoman and her two staffers were beaten and robbed in the lower flat, which houses the supermarket at Lot 4881 La Parfaite Harmonie. The bandits, who were focused on gaining access into the upper flat, only managed to escape with three phones, wedding rings and the day’s sale.
Proprietor of N&V Mini Mart, who requested anonymity said that around 19:00 h on Tuesday, they started experiencing a fluctuation in the power, which caused the street lamp in front of her house and business to shut down and so they decided to close early.
“One of my staff went upstairs to put some stuff on the landing and when she was coming down back, one of the guys grabbed her and she started to scream,” the businesswoman said.
Upon investigating the reason for the scream, she said an armed man walked towards her and struck her and another staff on their heads before collecting the keys to the supermarket and her home.
The traumatized woman recalled one of the bandits repeating “I want to kill somebody tonight and I’m willing to kill somebody,” as he dragged her to the back of the supermarket.
“They were saying that they wanted to go upstairs and they were hitting us and I had to tell them that I will do what they want and I open the side door for the supermarket but they wanted to go upstairs…” she said.
“While walking up the step, he told me to bend and duck but I refuse because I know my neighbours would look so I walk upright and they were looking.”
Recalling the terror, she said when she reached to her door; she tried to delay the gunman while using the wrong key to open the door. But the irate gunman became impatient, fearful, she eventually opened the door.
“When I walked in, he walked in behind me and the neighbours see and started screaming and he panicked and walk out back and I closed the door from inside and press the alarm,” the businesswoman said.
Immediately after she then ran to the window and began shouting loudly for “thief, thief” several times to raise and alarm but the bandits had already disappeared. She praised the police for their quick response and is asking for patrols to be in the area more often since many persons are victims of robbery.

Divisional and Branch Commanders; ‘D’ Division Stephen Mansell said police visited the scene promptly and began searching the area for the bandits but found nothing. He said police will be on the alert.

Meanwhile, he noted that on Wednesday the marine police also quickly intercepted a boat with an occupant who dropped a bag containing 35kilos of compressed marijuana. He noted that police in the division are doing their best to keep crime under control.

Even the PNC supporters are victims as the police continue to deny that crime is out of control. Apparently Granger's criminal supporters can only hold out so long, they have gone back to robbing and killing to get their piece of the pie.

Hard times under the PNC pushing people to their limits.

Miner shoots wife in mouth, kills self

Aug 11, 2016 News 0 Comments

A 73-year-old gold miner shot his 42 year-old reputed wife in her mouth last night before turning the

Dead Miner: Theodore ‘Totie’Adams

gun on himself at their Lot 24 North Road, Georgetown home, located several doors east of the popular Baroombar. The incident occurred just about 19:30 hrs.
The injured woman has been identified as Sarojini Warnauth, while the dead man has been identified as Theodore Adams called ‘Totie’.
Up to press time, Warnauth was undergoing emergency surgery at a private hospital. The bullet was said to be lodged in her throat.
Doctors have reportedly informed family members that her condition is critical due to the position of bullet. She cannot breathe on her own.
According to information received, Adams and his wife had an argument when he picked up the gun and shot her to the face, in the presence of her 10-year-old daughter.
The woman and her daughter somehow managed to run and lock themselves in a bedroom, before escaping through a window. They were rescued by nearby residents and rushed to the hospital.
The gold miner reportedly shot himself just under his right ear minutes after the woman escaped from the house.
The man’s licenced firearm was discovered at the scene.
Detectives believed that Adams, who was a patient of Dr. Bhiro Harry, might not have been in his right senses when he opened fire on his reputed wife.
Kaieteur News was told that for the past week, the miner was on “the edge” and might have “tripped” last night when he shot his partner and turned the gun on himself.

The house where the incident occurred.

Warnauth’s daughter reportedly told police that her mother had just dished out food for the man when he accused her of mixing poison in his meal.
There are reports that the miner had been claiming that persons wanted to kill him over the last couple of days.
Relatives who asked not to be named said that the miner started suffering from a mental breakdown when he suspected his wife had cheated on him some years ago. They insist his illness was not severe.
Meanwhile, the dead man’s brother said that the wounded woman has not revealed much detail as to what really transpired. He said that he was informed when the woman was rescued from the building, a single gunshot was heard from inside the house.
When the police entered the house, Adams was seen lying on the floor with both hands to his side and blood pouring from the right side of his head.
Kaieteur News understands that Adams operated a mining camp in the Mazaruni area.
Meanwhile, Divisional Commander Clifton Hicken said that neighbours heard a loud explosion at the couple’s home and when the police entered the building, Adams lifeless body was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head.

Indians continue to bear the brunt of the PNC criminals attacks.

Bandits ‘dump’ driver after hijacking car

Aug 11, 2016 News 0 Comments

A 34-year-old man was beaten and kicked out of his own vehicle at La Parfaite Harmonie,

Vishal Harrichand

West Bank Demerara (WBD) on Monday night, after three gunmen had forced their way into his car.
The incident occurred around 22:00 hrs, on the eastern side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge.
Vishal Harrichand, a Schoonord, WBD resident, said that he had parked near the entrance to the bridge, waiting on his girlfriend when he was attacked by three men, who later made off with his silver-coloured Toyota Premio, PSS 5038.
Harrichand, who works as a driver with a construction company, said that the men beat and kicked him as he was driving to La Parfaite Harmonie—under their command.
“I was sitting in the car playing a game on my phone, with the two front windows down, when this person come from the back and place a gun at my neck and then two others come behind him. They forced their way into the car and told me to drive,” Harrichand said.
Scared for his life, the man said that he did as he was told.
He claimed that while driving, the men stripped him of his rings, chain, cash and even a few pieces of clothing he had purchased earlier and placed in his car.”
The bandits, who Harrichand said were all dressed in three-quarter pants, took him to an isolated area at the back of La Parfaite Harmonie and kicked him out of the vehicle before driving away.
The victim managed to get to La Grange Police Station where he made a report.
Harrichand said that while he is thankful for his life, he would like to have his car returned, since he recently purchased the vehicle and is still paying for it.

While police toot their own horns about reducing crime, the reality on the ground says otherwise. 

Murderation under the PNC continues unabated as the qwe qwe style of governance flounders. 

Dead: Malika Hamilton

Ann’s Grove girl was murdered

August 13, 2016

 

…autopsy: hit to head, strangled, then dumped into Hope Canal

BY Shauna Jemmott

PATHOLOGIST Dr. Nehul Singh has conducted an autopsy on the body of the late 14-year-old Malika Hamilton and found she was brutally bludgeoned to her head, strangled, and dumped alive in the Hope Canal between Monday afternoon and Tuesday.The second year Hope Secondary School student died of ‘asphyxiation’, a condition of severe deficient supply of oxygen to the body as a result of abnormal breathing. An example of asphyxia is choking.

The autopsy report also revealed that before Hamilton was thrown into the Hope Canal while still alive, she suffered ‘blunt trauma to head’ and ‘compression injury to neck’, her cousin Dr. Saska Sertima told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday.

The ‘Miss African Calabash 2014’ beauty queen had left her home at Lot 11 Two Friends Village, Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara late on Monday, but never returned. Her body was fished out of the Hope Canal the following day, where it was spotted by the canal’s ranger.

Relatives of the dead teenager are calling for swift justice as police investigations continue. They said a man suspected to be part of the investigation has disappeared, and there is no photograph available to police.

Hamilton’s mother, Atesha Cambridge, also said that her daughter’s body appeared ‘fresh’, as if she had just died at the time she was pulled from the canal. The family said they observed that Hamilton’s fingers were white and mud was on her skin, which indicated that she was not long thrown overboard.

The family said one of the same men in whose company she was reportedly last seen was observed walking in the direction of Hope when the teenager’s grandmother, Dorrel Cambridge, enquired of her whereabouts from him on the morning when the search for the missing girl began.

“Dem seh she bin a bathe a trench, but me seh Malika doesn’t go and bathe a trench,” the woman told the press.

Relatives and friends said the teenager did not know how to swim.
“Me start ask people, and then me stop wan boy name Satan, and he seh ‘Malika and all ahwe bin a bathe a trench deh (not far from her home) and Malika lef and seh she ah go ah she grandmother’ (at Hope, two villages away).

“Me seh ‘wait, Malika doesn’t lef so! How Malika go lef hey, pass we hey (her home)…. How she go bathe a ‘big bridge’ and pass hey wid she wet skin and go at she grandmother at Hope?”

The Guyana Chronicle understands that the man had told another woman that Hamilton had left for Hope with his slippers, but relatives said no slippers were found near the teen’s body; and they have observed the man wearing the same slippers he said she had borrowed, even on the day she was discovered dead.

On Wednesday, however, the ranger who found the teen’s body the day before, also a boat operator, said he had traversed the canal several times, transporting workers on the infrastructural project, but did not notice her body earlier. It was not until he was making his third trip that he spotted something black in the canal. The man said because the canal is clean, he quickly observes anything strange in it.

He later returned to the area after he was informed that Hamilton was missing, and after spinning the boat, the waves shifted the body, causing him to recognize her clothing.
The ranger also said that on Monday he transported Malika and three men, including ‘Satan’, across the canal from Douch Four to Hope, at about 13:00h. That was the last reported time that Hamilton was seen alive. Her body was on Tuesday pulled from the canal, around the ‘Skinny Dam’ bridge at ‘Star-apple Tree’ area, where men go to catch birds.

Meanwhile, family members of the dead girl are upset that Lyken Funeral Home did not store her body properly, resulting in the body being bloated and starting to decay. Her mother said she is deeply hurt and has decided to bury her daughter this Sunday, as a result.

“They didn’t put her properly! She start spoil. She cannot keep anymore long. Is best she go and bury early. They need to do their work and job more properly. It’s hard to open my child properly like that. I give them my child properly. When me child come out (the water) me child was fresh fresh,” the distraught woman told the Guyana Chronicle.

Malika Hamilton, whose Facebook name is Iheart Malika, had, a few months ago, posted on her page, “If love only exist in my dreams, don’t wake me up!!!!!!”

And the PNC bragging that serious crime is down.

The AFC contingent of the government will now have to find new source of funding. They must be mad with the PNC for blocking their business.

Enmore man charged for ‘coke’ in frozen fish

August 12, 2016

 

FOLLOWING the discovery of over 200 pounds of cocaine in frozen fish at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), a 31-year-old East Coast businessman was on Friday remanded to prison. Kapil Haresh Thakurian of Foulis, Enmore, made his first court appearance before city Magistrate Leron Daly in relation to the matter. He denied the allegation.

The packaged drugs contained inside the frozen fish

Particulars of the charge alleged that on Tuesday, August 9 at CJIA, Thakurian had in his possession 88.200 kilograms of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
The businessman was represented by attorney-at-law Peter Hugh who made an application for his client to be released on bail, since the defendant did not pose a flight risk.
Police Prosecutor, Inspector Kevin London, objected to bail because investigations into the matter were still ongoing.
Magistrate Daly ruled in the prosecution’s favor and remanded the businessman until August 26 for statements.
Police on Tuesday intercepted and seized over 200 pounds of cocaine in the cargo shipment of frozen fish.
According to the police, the bust was not made by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) but by the Police Narcotics Branch. The Guyana Chronicle understands that the shipment was intended for New York.
It was revealed that the shipment was being processed through a local air-cargo service.

Seems like the PNC thieves are not listening to their leader Granger. They continue to rob.

Carjacking seem to be one of the PNC bandits easiest mode of earning a living.

Another car hijacked, driver thrown out at La Parfaite Harmonie

Aug 13, 2016 News 0 Comments

Less than a week after a Schoonord, West Bank Demerara resident lost his car, when three men forced him to drive to an isolated area in La Parfaite Harmonie, another driver has reportedly experienced the same fate.

Shaheed Mohamed

This time it’s 29-year-old taxi driver, Shaheed Mohamed, of 60 Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo.
Mohamed lost the silver Toyota Premio, PVV 5302, he was driving early yesterday morning, after a man hired him from the eastern side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge to go to La Parfaite Harmonie, around 00:45 hrs.
According to Mohamed, he and another taxi driver had parked at the bridge, and were waiting on customers, when a man approached him and asked the price to go to La Parfaite Harmonie.
“I told him the price and he said okay and jumped in the vehicle. When we reached a dark corner at Parfaite, he asked me to stop, because he wanted to make a call, so I did,” the man recounted.
He said that the passenger appeared to make a call while inside his vehicle, but ‘hanged up’ after it appeared that no one answered.
“Suddenly, I see a white Toyota Allion (number given) pull up next to me and two men jump out of the vehicle and come to me with a gun.”
Mohamed said that the men dragged him out of the vehicle and removed his silver band and took his phone along with $45,000 in cash.
“They were talking hard and the people at a house nearby heard and asked ‘what is going on there’ and the two of them jumped in my car and the other one jumped in the white car they come in, and drove away,” Mohamed said.
A report was made at La Grange Police Station.
Last Monday another driver, Vishal Harrichand, said that he had parked near the entrance to the Harbour Bridge, waiting on his girlfriend, when he was attacked by three men, who later made off with his silver-coloured Toyota Premio, PSS 5038.
Harrichand, who works as a driver with a construction company, said that the men beat and kicked him as he was driving to La Parfaite Harmonie—under their command.
He said that when he reached to the designated location, the men stripped him of his rings, chain, cash and even a few pieces of clothing he had purchased earlier and placed in his car.
Harrichand’s car has not been located.

Bandits beat fish vendor, terrorise and rob family

Aug 15, 2016 News 0 Comments

A bandit with a gun and two others with cutlasses escaped with cash and jewellery after terrorizing a Corentyne family at around 05.00hrs yesterday.
Ceenarine Cyril Satrohan, 36, of Lot 232 Reef Section, Rose Hall, Corentyne, was at home with his wife and children when the bandits struck.
Satrohan, a fish vendor at the Rose Hall Market, was preparing to make his daily sales when the bandits struck.
“Me get up to tek out de fish from de freezer and go me go round de side of de house to collect de plastic, de one with de gun point it in me face and seh ‘don’t holler’ and me start holler hard and he lash me wid de gun.”
The traumatized man stated that he was dragged back into his home by the bandit who then demanded cash and jewellery.
“When de one wid de gun seh ‘gimme money and gold’, de other two run upstairs to meh wife and when she start holler meh tek out de money and give them. Den he drag meh and carry meh to de bathroom and one of them from upstairs come down fah watch me while he go up to meh wife.”

Sarita Satrohan

Ceenarine Cyril Satrohan

Satrohan added that the men then began beating him with the cutlass saying that they would “chop off his hand and foot”.
He was then taken upstairs to find his wife being stripped of her gold jewellery.
According to Satrohan’s wife, 26-year-old Sarita, she tried to shut the door before the bandits could gain entry but the men overpowered her.
“One of dem tell meh don’t holler, all we want is money and gold. And meh start pull off all me ring pon meh finger and meh band and suh and give dem”.
She told Kaieteur News that one of the bandits grabbed her by her neck and placed a cutlass to her privates.
“He scramble meh neck then he put de cutlass pon meh private and he carry meh husband back downstairs and stay wid he”.
The woman told this publication that she retreated to the lower flat of the home with her husband while the bandits made good their escape.
The bandits carted off $60,000 in cash and over $100,000 in gold jewellery.
Meanwhile, police have arrested a man who had allegedly threatened to rob Satrohan a few days prior to the incident. According to information recieved, the man was hired by the fish vendor to assist him in transporting his goods from No. 64 village.
Satrohan said that the deal turned sour after the agreed payment was changed.
He said “de man is meh fren and meh tell he seh me gon pay he $4000 if he carry meh to the fishery to by fish and he seh yes. So now when we done buy de fish and coming back, me tek out meh money fah pay and meh had alot of money on meh, suh me give he de four thousand and he seh me gotta give he more money, but dah wasn’t de agreement.”
He added that the man then threatened to hire people to rob and kill him.
“He keep saying that he would set people fah rob me and kill meh and dump me body far suh meh seh man buddy, me and you is fren, how you could tell me that? And now look meh get rob”.

See Bharat jewelry, 3 posts up.  The Indians continue to bear the brunt of PNC fund raising activities. 

This trend of Indos being robbed, brutalized and murdered just because they are Indos is a reminder of PNC part One. 

This administration is taking Guyana to destruction with their corruption, theft and wholesale racist attitude and policy towards Indos. It will only get worse.

Those who supported the AFC will live to regret because of their mistakes. Moses is now a piece of trash for Granger. Trotwman was recently chosen over Moses to chair an investigation. This speaks volumes of what Granger thinks of Indos in the PNC.

More is yet to come. Indos who are smart enough should leave now. It will become dog eat dog under the PNC crooks.

Businessman narrowly escapes death during brazen robbery

Aug 16, 2016 News 0 Comments

– elderly couple fearful after suffering similar fate

Police on the West Coast of Demerara are investigating two daring robberies that have left business

A distraught
Khemraj Persaud

-oriented families not only traumatised, but contemplating the future of their income-earning endeavours.
In fact, a victim of one of the robberies, Khemraj Persaud, is currently counting his lucky stars that he is still alive to talk about the ordeal. The 49-year-old man, during an interview with this publication, revealed that one of the two armed bandits who invaded his home yesterday morning fired a bullet that missed his head by mere inches.
“I felt this thing pass me and I couldn’t believe was a bullet pass me head like that…I coulda lose my life this (yesterday) morning,” Persaud reflected.
Persaud, who operates a small supermarket called ‘Vincent’, at 100 New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, disclosed that the business, which is situated in the bottom-flat of his two-storey home, has been in his wife’s family for a number of years.
This is not the first time that the business has been the target of bandits. But the incident yesterday, he recalled, was particularly traumatic.
“This is the third time we get robbed, but this is the first time for this year,” related Persaud.
He recounted that he opened his business place around 06:00 hours yesterday and had gone into a kitchen situated at the back of the shop to squeeze oranges and feed his bird. But what he wasn’t aware of was that someone had trailed him into the kitchen.
Persaud said that he only realised he had company when he was struck behind his head and instructed to lie on the ground. After instinctively turning around to see who had hit him, Persaud said that he complied with the intruder. “He had this small gun in he hand, and is this gun he use to hit me in my head,” said Persaud of his attacker.

Persaud’s shop was the early morning target of bandits.

Almost immediately, another gun-toting man appeared in the kitchen, Persaud said, and ordered him not to holler, after which he started to make demands for money.
“I tell them the money in the shop, and they run into the shop and grab up all the money there (in a drawer),” Persaud disclosed. But this was not before one of the unmasked men fired a shot at Persaud who was still in a lying position.
The man said that after the shot rang out and the men left to secure the money, he used another exit and ran out of his yard. From a safe location he saw the men checking their weapons and shortly after a car picked them up.
Police ranks who arrived on the scene were furnished with a description of the vehicle and its registration plate, although it is suspected that the latter might be false. Persaud said the police also removed a spent shell from his premises.
According to Persaud, the incident has left his entire family traumatised, including his wife and children. “We were thinking to expand our business, but this thing just scare me so much I thinking about putting a for sale sign,” Persaud added.

YET ANOTHER BUSINESS
And Persaud’s family was not the only one to suffer at the hands of bandits over the weekend. The night before, another business place at Lot 4, Nouvelle Flanders Village (Crane), West Coast Demerara was robbed.

The premises belonging to Lennox and Verna Albert that was invaded by bandits.

The business place is operated by an elderly couple, Lennox and Verna Albert. They are both 69 years old.
Speaking to this publication yesterday, the woman said that she and her husband were about to close their shop around 20:00 hours Sunday when their premises was invaded.
She explained that her husband had just closed the gate that leads to their shop and was about to secure a shed when two young men scaled their gate and held her husband up at gunpoint.
The woman said that the men, one with a long gun and the other with a short gun, took away her husband’s licenced firearm and forced both of them (she and her husband) into their home where they ransacked all the rooms.
“They kept asking ‘Where is the gold? Where is the money?’ They said they wanted everything. These were good looking boys, but they were rough,” recounted Verna Albert. In addition to relieving them of more than $500,000 in cash, the woman said that the men also carted off colognes, male underwear, a cellular phone as well as a gold ring – the only jewellery Mrs. Albert had.
The couple is troubled about the loss of the firearm since, according to the woman, “we waited five years to get this gun licence and just like that, the firearm gone.”
According to Mrs. Albert, over the number of years she and her husband operated their business they have been robbed multiple times, and therefore her husband had applied for a firearm licence.
Police in a statement indicated that Lennox Albert was relieved of a .32 pistol with five rounds of ammunition.
The couple is hoping that with the evident threat to their livelihood that they will be given permission to obtain another firearm

Car abandoned, drugs found following police roadblock

Aug 17, 2016 News 0 Comments

The police in Corentyne on Monday evening found an abandoned vehicle which was suspected to have been abandoned by drug dealers after they were cornered by police.

The seized car in which Berbice police reportedly found a stash of marijuana and a passport on Monday evening.

According to reports, around 18:05 hrs on Monday, last, the police received information that a vehicle was travelling with a large quantity of drugs destined for the Upper Corentyne area.
The police subsequently set up a roadblock along the Corentyne highway.
During that time, a vehicle which was suspected to be a taxi and fitting the description, came rolling up toward the roadblock. However upon seeing the police, the driver of the vehicle made a sudden about turn and headed back in the direction of New Amsterdam.  The police boarded their vehicle and gave chase, but were unable to locate the gateway car.
Conducting further investigations, the cops received information that an individual had disembarked a car fitting the description of the vehicle being sought, and had boarded another vehicle.
The cops later came upon a parked Silver Grey Toyota Carina, HC 5277, which fit the description of the second vehicle, and was apparently abandoned by the occupants.
The vehicle was searched and a multi-coloured shopping bag was found in the trunk. A black garbage bag was found in that bag which also contained four transparent plastic bags with what appears to be leaves, seeds and stems of the marijuana plant.
The vehicle was transported to the Number 51 police station where it was lodged.  The substance was tested and weighed and was found to be 5769 grams of marijuana.
A passport, camouflage jersey and cell phone were also found in the vehicle.
Investigations are ongoing.

Two in custody following robbery of elderly woman

Aug 17, 2016 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News 0 Comments

The bandits are merciless in their pursuit to take from persons what is not theirs and would pick on anybody. So much so that two thieves from the Central Corentyne area on Monday, last, robbed an 81-year-old woman and another female.
According to reports, around 19:30 hrs on the said day, octogenarian Malwattie Ramcharran and 57-year-old Jas Tyrel called “Girlie” were relaxing in hammocks at their Lot 301 Ankerville, Corentyne, Berbice residence, when two bandits scaled the fence and accosted them.
The intruders assaulted the two women before robbing them of their finger- and ear rings before escaping. The police were summoned and responded promptly.
Acting on information two men fitting the description of the two bandits were arrested in the Ankerville area. They are in custody and assisting with investigations.

Looks like once again the Guyanese public are left to enact justice for themselves as the pnc police are always absent.

Bandits given sound beating after botched robbery

August 17, 2016

Guard shot during attack on female mining firm boss

Aug 20, 2016 News 0 Comments

Mining company owner Shelly Singh was left traumatized after gunmen shot a security guard and wounded one of her employees after cornering the victims in Mrs. Singh’s pickup outside her Eccles, East Bank Demerara

Shelly Singh (left) with detectives at the scene.

residence at around 15.00 hrs yesterday.
But the two gunmen and their driver were forced to flee empty-handed after the wounded guard discharged several rounds at the attackers. According to a source, the guard believes that he may have wounded at least one of the gunmen, since the shootout occurred at relatively close range.
A relative of Mrs. Singh said that a bullet grazed the back of the head of one of Mrs. Singh’s employees. He was treated but was not admitted.
Kaieteur News understands that Crime Scene ranks found two warheads lodged in one of the door panels of Mrs. Singh’s pickup. At least eight spent shells were found close to the driveway.
Relatives believe that the gunmen trailed Mrs. Singh from a city commercial bank.
Kaieteur News was told that Shelly Singh, accompanied by an employee and a guard, had conducted a transaction at Demerara Bank Limited on Camp Street. They then headed to Singh’s home in Eccles. But just as they entered the driveway, a grey car stopped nearby and two men exited. Both reportedly had handguns.
There was a brief exchange of gunfire between the bandits and the security guard, who had armed himself with Mrs. Singh’s handgun.
The gunmen eventually retreated, while the injured were taken to a hospital.
Singh’s relative who spoke to Kaieteur News said he was upset that investigators had asked the mining company owner to hand over her firearm. However, a police source said that this was a routine aspect of such an investigation.

Chain snatcher caught hiding in woman’s bedroom

Aug 20, 2016 News 0 Comments

A thief was captured hiding in a woman’s bedroom yesterday, minutes after he grabbed a chain from a man in Bourda market, Georgetown. This occurred around 14:15 hrs yesterday.

The suspect arriving at the GPHC yesterday.

The suspect has given his name as Gonsalves also known as “White boy.”
According to information received, the suspect grabbed a man’s chain in Bourda market and ran through an alleyway and managed to sneak into a woman’s bedroom through an open window at a house at Robb and Light Streets, Georgetown.
This newspaper was told that when the victim lost his chain, public-spirited persons gave chase.
A resident on Robb Street informed the group of men that she noticed a young man jumping through a window in the apartment beneath her.
“When we went in, the two women who live there said that no one was there, but as we were leaving one of them started screaming, and we run back and see the man in the bedroom,” a source said, while adding that the suspect was beaten by the angry mob.
Kaieteur News was told that when the suspect spotted the cops, he started screaming for them to rescue him from the group of men. He was eventually taken to the hospital where he remains a patient.

Shears-wielding bandits nabbed after robbing couple

August 21, 2016

Pensioner found with throat slashed

Aug 23, 2016 News 0 Comments

– Son, two others arrested

The son of a 76-year-old man who was found with his throat slashed in his Lot 61 Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home on Sunday night, has been taken into custody, as police continue to investigate the pensioner’s

The house in which David Ramkissoon (inset) body was found.

death.
The body of David Ramkissoon aka “Shortman”, a father of five, was discovered in a pool of blood in the living room by his son, around 19:30 hrs on Sunday.
The younger Ramkissoon had just returned home after spending the day at a creek on the Soesdyke/ Linden Highway with his family. He and two other persons have been arrested.
Initially, detectives were looking at a theory in which the pensioner was killed during a robbery since the house was ransacked and money was reportedly stolen. However, after carefully examining the property, the cops found no forced entry.
A number of other factors caught the cops’ attention, one of which was the fact that a number of envelopes, in which Ramkissoon would have received his pension money, were found in a refrigerator—as if someone was trying to hide something.
The pensioner shared the home with his son, daughter-in-law and the couple’s two children.
One of the motives the police are looking at is that the pensioner was killed over his property. They seemed convinced that the man’s death was not linked to a robbery.
The daughter-in-law recounted that she and her family left home around 11:00 hrs on Sunday to go to the creek.
“We left late and he was telling us is best we stay home and eat lunch then go to the creek, because the traffic to go to the creek gone be bad. He was sitting in the hammock when we left home.”
She added that when they returned home, they noticed that the house was in complete darkness which was a bit strange.
“My husband went in the yard and opened the door and went inside to put on the light and he go in his father room and called for him, but he see the room ransacked and his father wasn’t there, so we went in the other rooms and they were ransacked,” the woman said.
She said that it was when her husband was heading back downstairs that he noticed his father lying in blood and started screaming.
The daughter-in-law said that she and several neighbours rushed into the house and saw Ramkissoon on the floor. She said that she has no idea as to why the police would take her husband in custody since he is innocent and would in no way harm his father.
When asked if she has any idea as to who may want her father-in-law dead, the woman responded in the negative, but claimed that there are a number of young boys who do not work and would frequent the streets.
The police are looking at other motives.

14-year-old C’tyne boy murdered

Aug 23, 2016 News 0 Comments

– found with gaping wound to back of head

The body of 14-year-old Akeem Grimmond was found around 13:00 hrs yesterday at Number 61 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, two days after he went missing.
Grimmond of 53 Section ‘B’ Number 61 Village was last seen alive around 17:30 hrs last Saturday when he left his home to go and tend to some cows.
According to his mother, 32-year-old Parbattie Takurdyal, her son would usually tend to a villager’s cows which he would round up in the afternoons.
The woman stated that the lad left home as usual to go to the Number 62 backdam to collect the cows, but failed to return home. After she did not see him around 20:30 hrs she made a report at the No. 62 police outpost.
Search parties were then organized and the body was found with a gaping four- inch wound behind the left ear. He was clad in the same clothes that he had left home with- a green short pants and red and white vest.
Investigations are continuing and several persons have been detained for questioning.