Guyana Observer News

Carolan Lynch’s attorney last evening confirmed that police have re-filed a murder charge against her for the death of her husband Farouk Razac, the former boss of Swiss House Cambio. Nigel Hughes said Lynch had not been arrested and as far as he was aware no warrant was issued for her detention. Hughes said Lynch had not been notified of the charge but he noted that she may appear in court on Monday. Lynch, who had previously been charged with Razac’s murder, was freed in 2008, after then Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys ruled that he found no prima facie case against her and discharged the matter. She had been charged in May 2007, after Razac was found dead on the floor of their Eping Avenue, Bel Air home. There was evidence he had bled through his nose and mouth and his hands were at his neck. An autopsy later confirmed that he had been strangled.

-’09 Auditor General report

Auditor General (ag) Deodat Sharma yesterday presented the audited accounts of public spending for fiscal year 2009 to the Speaker of the National Assembly. Sharma presented his sixth report as Auditor General yesterday afternoon and according to him work on the 2010 report has already commenced. He said that the Audit Office is aiming to submit the audited accounts for 2010 to the National Assembly by the statutory deadline of September 2011. Stabroek News understands that several recurring subjects have been pointed out by the Auditor General in this most recent report, with abuse of the Contingency Fund as well as overpayment to contractors being key issues.

-selection could be made by early next year

The Final Quarterly General Council Meeting of the main opposition PNCR for 2010 is to be held today and the process for the next presidential candidate is high on the agenda. The PNCR yesterday revealed that its presidential candidate could be decided by early next year even. Chief Whip Lance Carberry said there was no fixed timeline for that process, which has several steps to be followed before they can arrive at the party’s choice. “The whole idea is to ensure that there’s transparency and there’s fairness so that in fact you would not as journalists come to the conclusion that we are not pursuing a very democratic course,” he said.

Two officers from the Ministry of Human Services’ Child Care and Protection Agency (CCPA) are to be dismissed following a probe into the body’s failure to assist abused 16-year-old Neesa Lalita Gopaul who had approached the agency for help before she was brutally murdered. According to reliable information reaching this newspaper, several other individuals will also face disciplinary action. The report, which was presented to Minister Priya Manickchand on Thursday, is to be made public on Monday.

Eric Thomas, 19, who resides with his grandmother at 99 Downer Street, Grove, East Bank Demerara, has alleged that he was placed in police custody for four days even though he had done no wrong. The young man who was accompanied by his mother said that the lawmen apprehended him on Monday evening while he was standing with a friend on a street in the said village. He claimed that while they were placing the handcuffs on him, one of the policemen stated that he had the appearance of a thief. They then handcuffed him and had him walk through the village in full view of everyone.
As the officers approached the main road, they placed him into the tray of a police vehicle that was heavy tinted.

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The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) yesterday called government’s advertising directive to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) an indicator of “tampering” in the electoral process and it called for collective political and civic action to prevent interference. “…If ever there was the need by the opposition political parties and other civil society organizations in Guyana for collective action to protect the fundamental rights of citizens against the excesses of the [Bharrat] Jagdeo government that need is manifested in the latest directive issued to GECOM by the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon,” the WPA said in a statement.