Guyana crime & violence update - govt grounds crime fighting helicopter during crime spree
Bell choppers deployment would require careful assessment of situation – military source
The recent killing of 22-year-old Arjune Singh, who was gunned down while at a police checkpoint on Middleton Street, Campbell-ville, and subsequent reports of gunfire in several parts of the city, the shots fired from outside the Water Chris Hotel and restaurant followed by the channa-bombing at the Ministry of Culture on Friday, many believe, were perfect opportunities for the helicopters to have been pressed into service. However they were not deployed in any of these instances. [Guyana is a jokey scuntry ran by a bunch of incompetent so.called communist jackasses. if it the end results weren't horrific, this would be one of the longest running comedy shows in the history of humanity]
Two men stabbed in drunken brawl
According to reports reaching this newspaper, [Sheldon] Sparman, who sustained a stab wound to the neck and a cut in the head, lost a considerable amount of blood and his condition was listed as serious.
[Orlando] Cumberbatch was in a stable condition having received cuts to his neck and back.
Ganga Persaud found strangled in car trunk
The body of a Diamond man, who was apparently strangled and bound with rubber, was discovered in the trunk of his car a short distance away from his East Bank Demerara home early yesterday morning
University of Guyana’s Thakur and wife robbed at gunpoint
The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 18:30 hours, on Saturday last, during which Parsram Thakur of the University of Guyana (UG) and who resides at No. 67 Village, Corentyne, and his wife were attacked by three men, two of whom were armed with handguns and a knife, and robbed of jewellery, cash, a cell phone and a wrist watch.
PUC flooded with complaints from Guyana Water Inc. consumers
THE watchdog, Public Utilities Commission (PUC), says it has been receiving many enquiries and complaints from consumers concerning water rates charged by the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) this year as against last year.
[...] have detained the reputed wife of murdered businessman Ganga Persaud following the discovery of his body in the trunk of his car on [...]
Guyana crime & violence updates May 19 2008 :: propaganda press! boycott Carifesta X
19 May 08 at 3:10 pm