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What we have is a continuation of the Jagdeo presidency |
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Monday, 09 January 2012 |
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  Dear Editor,
(KN) New administrations are like new years; a time for change, a time for getting rid of the old and ushering in the new. A new government gives the new chief executive an opportunity to appoint a new team, stamping his own personal imprint on the way forward. It has been over one month since the Ramotar led PPPC government has been in office, and apart from the new Drum Major, the same old band of Jagdeoites keep marching on. Recently, some have been quick to heap praise on the new President for meeting with the opposition, reinstating a right (that should have never been denied) to a journalist, sending Henry Greene on leave, and appointing a few Guyanese of African heritage to the Diplomatic Corps.
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Guyanese rapist among Canada’s ten ‘Most wanted’ |
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Monday, 09 January 2012 |
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Vibert “Tiger” Henry (Toronto Sun) Canadian police and border agents have stepped up their search for a Guyanese who is included in the Top 10 of the country’s “Most Wanted” criminals and street thugs. Guyanese Vibert ‘Tiger’ Henry, 45, has been on the escaped list for five years to avoid facing sex charges. The Canadian authorities claim that Henry and other wanted fugitives have fled deeper underground to avoid arrest and deportation. Henry was convicted in 2006 of two counts of assault, sexual assault and uttering death threats in a vicious attack but disappeared before his scheduled sentencing.
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Queens Broker Is Accused of Bringing Immigrants’ Ruin |
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Monday, 09 January 2012 |
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By Adam B. Ellick
 
(New York Times) For years, a self-made real estate magnate named Edul Ahmad personified the collective dreams of Richmond Hill, Queens, which is populated by many immigrants from Guyana, in South America. Mr. Ahmad drove a yellow Lamborghini, sponsored a cricket team and held white-glove parties at a lavish banquet hall that he owned. At a prominent intersection near the border of Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park, his smiling face looked down from a large billboard that promoted his real estate services. Many residents responded, taking out high-risk mortgages that they were told they could readily afford. In July, it all came crashing down. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Mr. Ahmad, charging him with masterminding a $50 million mortgage fraud that seemed to exemplify a nationwide phenomenon of celebrated immigrant brokers who were accused of preying on their own.
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Cops accused of raping detained 12-year-old in police station |
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Monday, 09 January 2012 |
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(KN) Two Police Constables from the Port Kaituma Police Station are under close arrest for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl while she was in custody. The incident reportedly occurred late in December 2011, Kaieteur News understands that the child was arrested for simple larceny and was reportedly placed in a cell. The girl alleged that while she was in custody, two of the police ranks had sexual intercourse with her against her will. After she was released on station bail, the girl confided in an aunt and a cousin. They brought the alleged victim back to the police station where she gave a statement to a senior rank. A source said that she also identified one of the alleged culprits, whom she had known when he was posted at another location. A medical examination revealed that the girl was sexually active. Kaieteur News was told that the policemen were subsequently placed under close arrest and the one the girl had identified and escorted to Georgetown for further questioning. It is unclear whether the matter has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
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Six days later foreign investigators still to interview ‘victim’ |
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Monday, 09 January 2012 |
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Top Cop rape probe…
Henry Greene
(KN) While there is silence surrounding the investigation into allegations of rape against Police Commissioner Henry Greene, the woman who made the accusations is adamant that she will not be letting go of the matter. Speaking with this newspaper last night, the 34-year-old woman said that since giving her statement to the police, she has not heard anything further from them. This is despite being told that international investigators, who were invited by the Guyana government, had arrived in the country since last week. She told this newspaper that she has not been contacted by them and will be contacting her attorney on the matter.
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Town Clerk still to justify incentive payout |
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Monday, 09 January 2012 |
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Norman Whittaker Yonette Pluck-Cort (KN) As investigations continue into the alleged maladministration and financial records of the Mayor and City Council (MCC) that was brought to the attention of the Local Government Ministry, Minister within the Ministry of Local Government, Norman Whittaker, has expressed dissatisfaction with the responses thus far from the senior staff involved in the matter. Reports are that the City Treasurer, Andrew Meredith, with the approval of Town Clerk, Yonette Pluck-Cort, paid incentives to the Treasurer Department’s staff in addition to their salaries; while neglecting to pay nine Drainage and Sanitation workers their salaries in time for the Christmas weekend.
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GTUC calls for justice in case of treason accused- Munroes and Wharton |
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Saturday, 07 January 2012 |
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 The fact that serving GDF Major, Bruce Munroe; his wife, Teacher Carol-Ann Munroe; and former army reserve officer, Lieutenant -Colonel Leonard Wharton, arrested and charged on December 27, 2010 with plotting to overthrow the Government of Guyana, is still coming up for trial is an injustice, for justice delayed is justice denied. Initially, we were informed by the State that the trio were wanted on the basis of an allegation that they were involved in the July 2009 Ministry of Health fire. Later, the nation was told the trio were plotting to depose of President Jagdeo and the Government of Guyana during the period December 1, 2009 and December 16, 2010 The non-bailable nature of the charge under the Treason Act and the government’s ready disposition to display it's dictatorial tendency at the drop of a hat, demonstrates unquestionably, not only the fragility of the Rule of Law, but the mockery to which it has been reduced. It's now used by the PPP administration as a tool to intimidate and to silence dissent, as they flex their dictatorial muscles at anytime, and under any pretext, clothed in questionable "legalities" forced through Parliament.
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