Guyana Observer News

Jagdeo today ordered Top Cop Henry Greene to transfer to Berbice the senior policeman (Superintendent Rishi Das) with immediate effect. Das was the officer who visited Mark Benschop's house and "failed to arrest" him.

 By Freddie Kissoon

I received a call from Mark Benschop at 21.00 hours Wednesday evening stating that three police vehicles with personnel were outside his home. Dale Andrews, senior reporter for this newspaper accompanied me. In charge of operations was chief of Ruimveldt Police Station, and Runner-up Best Cop in ‘A’ Division Superintendent Rishi Das. On inquiry, Das told me that he would like to ask Benschop some questions at the Brickdam police station where other senior ranks had some interest in speaking to Mr. Benschop. The reason was the alleged traffic dislocation at the Le Repentir dumpsite. The police are contending that in blocking the entrance to the dumpsite, Mr. Benschop disrupted traffic. I told Das that nowhere in the world, three truck loads of police officers would visit a citizen on one of the most minor traffic violations. I politely told Das that he should invite Benschop to the station the next day. Benschop agreed to accompany Das to the police station but wanted to have someone move his 11-year-old son. Das agreed to wait for Benschop’s help to come. She had to be brought from the East Coast. Unable to locate her, Das and his men still decided to wait. Benschop also moved to contact his lawyer.

Up to late last night doctors at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Kingston were operating on a city watch vendor who was shot by bandits just as he was entering his yard at Goedverwagting, on the East Coast of Demerara. Paul Samaroo, 32, who operates just outside the Vendors’ Arcade on Water Street, had just exited a minibus and was about to open his gate when two bandits attacked him just before 22:00 hours. According to an eyewitness, the bandits appeared to have been waiting for Samaroo to come home, for as soon as he exited the bus, they ran towards him and shot him before relieving him of his jewellery. The bullet struck Samaroo on his right arm fracturing a bone before entering his right side abdomen. An anxious relative who was at the hospital last night told this newspaper that an eyewitness tried to alert Samaroo about the attack. He see the two men running coming and he shout out, but like as soon as Paul turn around, dem men shoot,” the relative related. Realizing that he was wounded, Samaroo took no chances and hurriedly handed over the jewellery he was wearing to avoid any further injury. The two bandits then fled towards the back of the village and disappeared in the darkness. The injured watch vendor was picked up and rushed to the hospital where he was immediately admitted.
The matter was reported to the police at the Sparendaam Station and an investigation was launched.
No one has so far been arrested.

By Peeping Tom

This term of the PPP administration has been distinguished by one main feature. The rich are getting richer. From 2006 onwards what we have had in Guyana are policies being implemented that have caused those with wealth to become richer. This term of the PPP administration has been good for the rich. They have reaped great rewards as a result of the policies of the administration. This is shocking when one considers that the ruling party is supposed to be working class in orientation. It is shocking when one considers that there is still absolute poverty in Guyana. It is shocking when one considers that there is a growing gap between rich and poor within the society. If there is anything that signals the present administration’s support for private businesses over the small man, it is an advertisement which appeared in last Sunday’s newspaper inviting expressions of interest from private developers to be involved in developing a massive stretch along the East Bank of Demerara that will cater for some 38,000 persons.

Hundreds of Guyana Defense Force members are planning a massive protest against Chief of Staff (wife abuser) Gary Best. They are calling for his removal from office, claiming that he's nothing but a stooge of Jagdeo and the PPP.

‎

20 year old former "beauty queen" is pregnant for Guyana's Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene. Greene is listed by the US State Department as being part of the drugs trade, thus his visas being revoked.

Jagdeo spent over G$300M on travel expenses around the world, with nothing in return.

Mark Benschop is out on self-bail. The struggle continues against the racist, murderous and corrupt Jagdeo regime. Benschop extends his gratitude to all who have supported him with kind words and prayers. (listen to "Straight Up" this evening at 9 for more...tune into http://benschopradio.com

Social Activist Mark Benschop blocked the entrance to the Le Repentir dumpsite with his vehicle, stopping garbage trucks and other vehicles from gaining access to dump their refuse in the area yesterday. At the scene, vehicles lined the street since the blocked passageway caused many of the garbage trucks to remain on the road and in the process obstructed the heavy flow of traffic. However, after hours of protest City Council officials and members of the police force persuaded Benschop to remove from the entrance of dumpsite, since he had already made a clear statement about what prompted his actions of protest. According to Benchop, residents in the Le Penitence area are suffering from the stench that emanates from the dumpsite. “I have taken the decision to block these trucks from entering, because apart from a health hazard people can’t bury their dead without going through the stench. Somebody has to take a position and the politicians aren’t doing it. The opposition, the Government do you think anyone of them will live around here?”