Guyana Observer News

 (Editor's note) Due to the vindictiveness of the police commissioner and other operatives within the police force, a fabricated traffic charge was levied against Mr. Benschop.  He arrived in Guyana from an overseas trip and has visited the court to answer to this frivolous charge.

Police yesterday afternoon said that an arrest warrant for Mark Benschop was issued by the court on November 03, 2010, after he failed to attend the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court 7 that day. Benschop has been charged with driving motor pick-up GLL 3101 in respect of which a licence under the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act was not in force at the time.

…no surgical intervention could be done at this time – Dr Crandon

Shadow Finance Minister, Winston Murray, was declared brain dead by Neurosurgeon Dr Ivor Crandon who arrived early yesterday morning in Guyana from Jamaica on a specially chartered flight to treat him. The government paid the US$30,000 to have Dr Crandon flown to Guyana and upon arrival he immediately went to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he conducted an evaluation of Murray’s health crisis. Dr Crandon who is the Head of Surgery University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica arrived in Guyana at approximately 08:00 hrs yesterday and subsequently met with local doctors who were monitoring Murray’s condition.

 By Freddie Kissoon

There is a street named UG Access Road. At the junction of the Railway Embankment and UG Access Road, going west, on the southern side of the embankment road, a new housing scheme was started in 1995 by Guysuco for its senior employees. As years went by, Guysuco personnel sold their plots. I bought one of those units and built a home there. The only structure I own. From UG Access Road to the Caricom Secretariat, there are thirteen front homes in that suburb, meaning that those houses face the Railway Embankment, further meaning that the draining trench lies in front of these structures. fter the 13th unit, there is no trench. It was filled up and replaced by an underground tunnel. In that area lie the Caricom Secretariat and the Convention Centre.

A nurse/midwife was stabbed to her face and had acid thrown on her in a brutal attack at her workplace at the Georgetown Public Hospital last evening. Ursula Houston of Laing Avenue was admitted to the Burn Care Unit of the  hospital following the attack. Her attacker, a former lover, fled and was being sought by police. He stabbed Houston over her left eye with a broken bottle and threw acid on her, hospital sources told Stabroek News. She suffered burns to her face, left hand and other parts of her exposed upper body, this newspaper was told. The attack occurred at around 7:30 pm at the Maternity Unit where Houston worked. She was stepping out of the nurses’ room at Ward 5 when the man pounced. The attacker goes by the nickname ‘Thousand’, law enforcement officials said. According to reports, Houston broke off a relationship with the man and apparently he could not deal with it. When this newspaper visited the Laing Avenue home of Houston, a relative, Abbiola said that she had just received the news and did not know much. However, she said that Houston had worked at the hospital for a number of years and was in her 40’s. She confirmed that Houston knew ‘Thousand’. Houston has one child who is overseas.

 Alwin Garcia, of 7 Hague Public Road, West Coast Demerara, is appealing to the public to help find his 13-year-old daughter, Alana Garcia. The teen, who is a student of the Leonora Secondary School, has been missing since October 19. She was last seen by her father when she had returned from school. She had informed him that she would be going out to take “a walk,” but she never returned. Mr. Garcia is contending that he did not take the situation “serious”, because this has not been the first time that his daughter ran away from home. He said that when the first incident occurred, reports were made to the police and Human Services Ministry. He added that representatives from the Ministry visited their home twice to counsel his daughter, but since then, they have not returned. However, reports of this most recent disappearance were made to the Den Amstel Police Station, but the family has not got word from the authorities since. Alana is four feet eleven inches tall and was last seen wearing a blue top, a pair of blue jeans and a pair of slippers. Anyone with any information that would lead to Alana Garcia’s safe return home is asked to contact the family at 692-9081/ 276-3062 (father) or 644-7176 (mother).

 - PNC/R Deborah Backer

 Shadow Home Affairs Minister of the People’s National Congress Reform, Deborah Backer, has stated that based statistics from the Guyana Police Force the crime rate in Guyana is at its all time highest. The statement was made on Friday during the party’s weekly media briefing. Backer stated that throughout the 11-year tenure of President Bharrat Jagdeo, from 1999 to 2010, the average rate of murders has been the highest in the country’s history. The rate for 2010, so far, indicates a continuation of that bloody record. According to the Head of the Criminal Investigation Department, of the Guyana Police Force, Assistant Commissioner, Mr. Seelall Persaud, as at October 31, (the 304th day of the year), the Force has recorded 116 murders. This number represented a rate of one death every two-and-a-half days.

Story does twist till sometimes people does want to know what is de truth. Last week, Robeson Benn tell de Waterfalls paper that de people who was cleaning de drain outside Freddie house, did done wuk fuh de day and that dem didn’t get to finish de job by Freddie house. Other people tell de same story but in a different way. Bharrat claim how alligator chase de weeder people and dem had to run like de devil. Well yesterday, dem boys call Robeson again and ask he want was de truth. De man tell dem that de truth is that de weeder people did decide to wuk but dem cutlass get tired and refuse to weed. He claim that when de weeder people decide to continue de job de cutlass refuse to budge. Then de weeder people get tired. Was like when de flu deh round. It does spread suh de tiredness spread. Joke is joke. Dem boys seh that is a lot of tiredness going round. People tired complaining how dem pay small; some tired talking bout corruption and some tired wid dem contractor who does do bad wuk. But dem boys know one thing. Freddie pen don’t get tired and Freddie heself don’t get tired cussing de government.

Talk half. Lef half.