| Canter driver receives equivalent of lost income |
| Tuesday, 27 July 2010 | |
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- Kissoon, Benschop make good on promise Kaieteur News columnist, Freddie Kissoon, and social activist, Mark Benschop, had publicly declared last month that they would be compensating a truck owner for the income he had lost. This was done recently when Maniram received the equivalent of four days’ income that he would have earned if his vehicle had not been impounded by the police. After the police shot Kelvin Fraser, the schoolboy from Patentia, the parents and villagers participated in a demonstration. Benschop, Kissoon, David Hinds of the WPA and Lincoln Lewis of the TUC lent support. The decision was to take the protest to Georgetown. According to Kissoon, “We just saw Maniram and chartered him to take the group to town, nobody knew him before. He accepted the job and dropped them off outside the Ministry of Home Affairs, the site of the protest.” Then the bizarre happened, Kissoon said. “He was hauled in, arrested, kept at Brickdam (Police Station), released on bail and went to court. Then police decided to keep his vehicle.” There were no explanations offered to lawyers or friends.Kissoon said that the only explanation for the vehicle being impounded was political. It was then that the commitment was made to compensate Maniram for the income he had lost. “What the state did was totally wrong, he was victimised, and we took the responsibility to give him back his income that he lost,” Kissoon said. The money was donated by a member of the Mark Benschop Foundation. Maniram who expressed appreciation for the gesture added that it was the first time in his life that he had been caught up in such a situation. Chief Justice Ian Chang had ordered the Canter truck released on June 15, however it was only after the intervention of Maniram’s attorney, social activist Mark Benschop and Columnist Freddie Kissoon, that the police finally decided to hand over the vehicle. |
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