Guyana Observer News

Chateau Margot robbery…

Five days after a brazen daylight robbery that left a Chateau Margot businessman and a 17-year-old bandit dead, police are still trying to ascertain the identities of at least three other men who managed to escape from the scene. According to reports, six men had attacked the Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara business on Tuesday and while one was captured at the scene, another shot dead and one more shot and wounded, three others managed to secure their freedom. Up to yesterday investigators were still reviewing surveillance tapes from cameras at the robbery scene with the hope of identifying the perpetrators who are still at large. A top police source told this newspaper that the images retrieved from the cameras required enhancing in order to make positive identifications. But a few businessmen are not too satisfied with the pace of the police investigations into the incident.

Sam, de PM. was in pain. Dem boys hear he hollering “Aah; aah; aah” and de next thing dem know is that some Chinese organisation holler ward. De next thing is that Sam get de aah ward or in other words, de award. Dem boys seh is a dreaming award but dem want to know when Henry, de Cop gun get he own. He always nodding and dem sure that is nuff dreaming he does do. Irfaat got to get an award to. He, like he name, does do nuff of that all over de place. He go to Parliament and after a while dem boys see he colleagues fanning. Dem boys hear Gail ask is who and a man seh that is Irfaat. It wasn’t pleasant but not as bad as de day when de GRA boss man enter de house. That was another kettle of fish and rotten fish at that. Was a budget speech and de place was full of people. Then de fanning start. It was frantic fanning like if dem people did want to banish de air. Again Gail ask, “Is who?” Another MP tell she is Khurshit. De foreigners still trying to understand de language.
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There are three developments this week that tell a long story about dictatorship in Guyana but more importantly about the particular nature of the Guyanese dictatorship. First, there is the punishment meted out to the headmistress of the Bagotsville Primary School.She might have unwittingly brought out the students and parents in a picketing exercise over  a disaster that the Government of Guyana ought to be ashamed of. The school has only one teacher. There is no running water. Naturally this outburst of genuine anger caused monumental embarrassment to the little tyrants who go all over Guyana sermonizing citizens with points of progress. The demonstration outside the Bagotsville Primary School comes a few months after returning graduates from foreign universities were given a lecture on the private media. They were advised to ignore the assessments of the presidency and the Government of Guyana as seen through the eyes of‘ the private media because the intention is always to denigrate the country’s leadership. Visits were made to Buxton and to Plaisance, to a Rastafarian church, a youth award graduation ceremony, the motor-racing ceremony, an ex-soldiers’ association and the self-eulogies went on. The old theme played on – Guyana is making progress.

-after Jagdeo visit

Regional Town Hall styled meetings to be held in January

General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Oscar Clarke, yesterday announced that the party will by February 19, next, hold a Special Congress where it will elect its Presidential Candidate for the 2011 General Election. Clarke said that on December 4, all Party Groups would meet to make and formally document their List of Nominees for the Party Presidential Candidate. He said that from December 5 to December 12 all Regional Secretaries must receive the Group Nominations and convene a Special Extended Regional Committee meeting. A representative from each of the groups that submitted nominations will attend to formally agree and document the Regional List of Nominees. He said that where no functioning Regional Committee exists, the Party Group Chairman or Secretary will send the Group Nominations, in the specified format, directly to the General Secretary.
According to Clarke, by December 18, 2010 all Regional Secretaries must submit their Regional List of Nominees, endorsed by all of the Group delegates attending the Special Extended Regional Committee meeting, to the Party’s General Secretary.

- students, union protest ‘flawed’ investigations

Lecturer at the University of Guyana, Evan Persaud, has been cleared of sex-talk charges and other improper conduct allegations, and can resume duties, the institution’s highest decision-making body decided yesterday. However, the decision was immediately met with a staged protest from a number of students and criticisms from the university’s workers’ union with accusations of a flawed investigation and conflict of interest being leveled. Around 20 students had filed complaints against the lecturer for improper behaviour. Persaud was suspended for over a year from the university and several of students, some of whom are on scholarships from mining companies, are dead set against his return, fearing victimization. The UG Council in June had cleared Persaud but then sent a report of a Special Committee to its lawyers, Cameron and Shepherd, for advice.

 Sam get an award and dem boys believe that it had to do wid de fact that he memory ain’t good. He is de man who forget that he promise cheap electricity five years ago and that Guyana woulda been better off. As far as he concern, blackout did done since 2004. Wid such a positive attitude de Chinese decide to give an award. It got a funny name but dem boys seh that it could only mean one thing—The Order of the Dreamer. One-man seh that it should be de Order of Skeldon. That is de factory that dem Chinese build. And dem too believe that it gun wuk. That is a dream. Is de only award Sam ever get. He never get CCH or MS or dem fancy thing suh at least he got something to hang up by he bed head when he going to sleep. And dem boys seh that Khurshid is a good man. He is de only boss who does knock off people and pay dem a month salary and all dem benefits. He learn. Dem boys seh that he doing that because some of de people he knocking off got secret fuh he and de best way to mek dem keep de secret is to treat dem good. That is how nuff Customs people doing wha dem have to do because dem know that when all is said and done dem gun collect dem thing.

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