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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 |
-Archie Poole detained, more charges likely today Former Chief Magistrate Juliet Holder-Allen is to turn herself in for questioning today in connection with the July 17 conflagration that destroyed the Health Ministry building in Brickdam. Mrs. Holder-Allen is the presidential candidate for the recently-established National Democratic Party. One of her party members, Keith Ferrier, was arrested at his National Avenue home, South Ruimveldt on Sunday.
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 |
Tongues were set wagging in the housing when a woman, who up to last year was an accounts clerk attached to the Guyana Oil Company, bought a home for $60 million in Bel Air Park. The house was owned by John Willems, formerly of Willems Timber and Trading Company.
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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 |
Where was Mr. Corbin when Dr. Jagan was the Opposition Leader? Mr. Corbin was right here in Guyana sitting in the Parliament and observing the periodic boycott of Parliament by the PPP. The PNC did the proper thing and began a boycott a few years ago. Then Jimmy Carter came and brokered a deal.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 |
… Ministry of Health fire A Ministry of Finance employee and a miner were yesterday charged for setting the Ministry of Health on fire. The men Clayton Westford, 19, of Lot 7 West La Penitence; and Tedenna Bagot, 21, of 32 Second Street, Alexander Village, were not required to plead to the indictable charge of setting fire to a public building, which was read to the duo by Acting Chief Magistrate, Melissa Robertson, at the Georgetown Magistrates Court.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 |
- Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, has asserted that the fire that destroyed the Ministry of Health building was politically motivated. Addressing the media with the Commissioner of Police and other senior police officers, Minister Rohee said that from the evidence gathered so far, it is clear that the act was conceived within a political context.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 |
“The only criminals that the police seem able to identify live either in Albouystown, Buxton or in the Ghetto where the black people live,” said City Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday. He made this comment during the municipal statutory meeting and expressed concern about the recent assault on Troy Small, called Cats, who was the first person to be identified as a suspect into the torching of the Ministry of Health’s main building at Brickdam.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 |
- policewoman, rural constable detained “We are affording you the opportunity to turn yourselves in and let the law take its course,” says Crime Chief, Seelall Persaud, to two key suspects in the arson of the Health Ministry, after they mysteriously disappeared from the Providence Police Station lockups yesterday morning.
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009 |
– to take legal action against police Activist Heston Bostwick was yesterday released from custody after being held for three days for questioning about the torching of the Health Ministry. Bostwick, the Chairman of the Justice for Jermaine Committee, was released from the Brickdam Police Station on $10,000 station bail and he later expressed outrage at his treatment by the authorities.
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