Guyana Observer News

- gunmen snatch jewellery, cash

Police are investigating yet another shooting incident in the city which has left a man nursing three gunshot wounds. Reports are that 39-year-old Troy Collins of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, was attacked and shot by two gunmen just after 22:40 hours near a fish shop at Orange Walk Bourda. According to a police statement, Collins was standing on the road when he was confronted by two men armed with handguns. The men discharged several rounds which struck Collins in the groin, left thigh and left knee, after which they took away his personal jewellery and $200,000 in Guyana currency and escaped in a motor vehicle that was parked in South Road.

…as 75-ft deep pit collapses

 Two miners were buried alive at around 13:00 hrs yesterday, after the walls of a 75-foot deep pit caved in on them at White Hole, Mahdia. Police identified the victims as 35-year-old Jamaica-born Rohan Hibbeizt,  called ‘Jamakey’ who resides at Long Creek, Soesdyke/Linden, and 32-year-old Karran Roopnarine of Triumph, East Coast Demerara. The general manager of the camp told Kaieteur News that rescuers, using a ‘jet hose’ took over two hours to retrieve the bodies. He said that five other crewmen were in the pit but they managed to scramble to safety. He explained that Hibbeizt and Roopnarine were several feet lower than the other miners when disaster struck.

– US report
Bribes and coercion see Guyana’s dons continuing to operate with impunity despite some strides made by local law agencies in investigating drug crimes, the 2010 US State Department Inter-national Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) has found. uyana continues to be a major transshipment point for cocaine destined for North America, Europe and West Africa and “the GOG [Government of Guyana] has neither identified nor confronted major drug traffickers and their organisations,” the INCSR, which was released yesterday, said.

Mark Benschop will be holding town hall meetings in Brooklyn and New Jersey: The addresses are: Friday March 5, 6pm Brooklyn, The Ark of Christ Church 1710 Eastern Parkway, for more information call 347-374-7112.

New Jersey, Saturday March 6, 6pm The New Jersey Jerusulem Temple, 1120 South Orange  Avenue, South Orange New Jersey. Call Pastor Ceasar 973-373-9080 or Lady Ira 973-674-6309

 By Freddie Kissoon

My contention has been that the two Office of the President propagandists, Prem Misir and Randy Persaud, are not engaged in moral obligation to the President of Guyana and by extension the Guyana Government, because of their insistence to air their views, thoughts and ideas in the Kaieteur News and Stabroek News. Two reasons explain this. First, the President has judged the private media as being the new opposition. Surely, no one can be that stupid to think he is referring to only two newscasts – Prime News and Capitol News. Any person with commonsense would know that on the top of his accusatory list are KN and SN. econdly, Mr. Jagdeo unambiguously, using language that was direct and harsh at a dinner hosted by the business community, urged the Guyanese entrepreneurs not to place advertisements in the KN because the paper is harming Guyana by the nature of its journalism.

As  the 210 budget debates wound down last Monday evening, Opposition Leader Robert Corbin called on the government to pay heed to the advice of the parliamentary opposition, as he identified this as one of the keys to accelerated progress in the country. During a passionate presentation to the National Assembly as he wrapped up the contributions from the opposition, Corbin reminded the government that they had been elected by the people to develop the country.  “You have been elected by the people of Guyana to perform. You’re not doing anybody a favour. You fight for the work… You got to perform. And we are here to hold your toes to the fire and see you perform according to the mandate…. So don’t boast about you doing this and doing that. Yes, we expect you to do that. But our job, very simply, is to say to you while you may be doing good in certain areas, there are opportunities to do better if you take our advice.”

An afternoon of fun for a group of boys ended in tragedy yesterday when one of them drowned in a “backwash lagoon” at the Guyana Water Incorporated’s (GWI) Central Ruimveldt Iron Removal treatment plant. Up to press time last evening the child was unidentified, but Stabroek News was told that he was from the South Ruimveldt area. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Hospital where he was taken around 4.30 pm, some 15 minutes after he was pulled from the water, which was said to be hazardous. The boy whose hair was in corn rows was clad only in a pair of long pants and was said to be around ten years old. When Stabroek News arrived in the area which is located aback of the Ruimveldt Well, a sizeable crowd had gathered and people were discussing the incident.

Okemo Todd suffered years of abuse at the hands of her reputed husband and early yesterday morning was brutally stabbed to death during a heated argument. The 20-year-old mother of two was stabbed several times and she bled to death outside Ketley Primary School in Ketley Street, Charlestown, opposite her home. Todd was forced to flee her home around 2 am yesterday after she was wounded and according to reports, she jumped over a six-foot high zinc fence to escape the assault.
Police are hunting Todd’s reputed husband who fled the couple’s Charlestown home minutes after the incident. The man escaped leaving his lifeless reputed wife lying on the roadside and their two infant daughters alone in the house. Reports are that the four-month-old and two-year-old were covered in their mother’s blood.