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Wednesday March 17 , 2021
Guyana trains police traffic ranks to help curb human trafficking
Lusignan prison escapee recaptured
MAN KILLS BROTHER-IN-LAW OVER MISSING BICYCLE
Guyana Post Wednesday March 17, 2021
Guyana trains police traffic ranks to help curb human trafficking
are often being trafficked in the front of the eyes of all. It was noted by the Coordination that a large number of ranks must be provided with that skill. “You were not provided with the right skills to be able to identify this, and so as a result we went back to our drawing broad and said we have to relook at this, we have to develop specialized training for traffic ranks.
“In just a couple of weeks we were able to pull that off and we had our first training session for traffic ranks in 2019. It was held right here in Georgetown. During that initial training to bring fruit to what we were saying, we emphasised the importance of having it. “We realized that traffic ranks, while most of them understand what trafficking is, they didn’t understand their role.” Ms Corbin added Knowing the high number of the crime committed the Ministry is planning on rolling out this training to each region to have more and more traffic ranks to quickly identity human trafficking on the roadways around Guyana. Apart from the training for ranks to identify victims of humans trafficking, ranks later on will also be exposed to training in the psychological aspect in order to deal with victims, who have already been through hurt and pain.
stealing a generator and two water pumps. He later hid the stolen items under a tree. Jhagroo was later confronted and it was at that moment that he tried to escape by jumping in the Atlantic Ocean. He was however followed by the resident with a speedboat, caught and later turned over to the authorities. Jhagroo, 46, of Lot B3 Goed Intent, Leguan, and Donald Baird, 40, of Lot 22 Hardina Street, Phillip Jhagroo Wortmanville, and The accused, Phillip Demerara. A murder accused by a villager in the Ruby Mark Emmanuel, 18, of Reports are that Grove Squatting Area, after being over three area after he was caught Jhagroo, was nabbed months run was nabbed stealing from his farm. in the Ruby, East Bank Jhagroo was caught East Bank Demerara
(EBD), were the men who used bedsheets as a makeshift rope to climb over the Lusignan prison fence and escape last November. Jhagroo was on remand for the murder of his drinking buddy, Mark Narine, who was killed between March 30 and March 31, 2019 at School Dam, Richmond Hill, Leguan after both of them had an argument. Narine was reportedly hit to his about his body and later dumped in a nearby trench, unconscious. He later drown.
Guyana recorded 225 human trafficking victims from 2020 according to the Ministry of Human Service and Social Security. This announcement was made in the wake of training for 25 Traffic ranks of the Guyana Police Force. These ranks will specialize in dealing with human trafficking, a problem that continues to trouble our society. Coordinator of the
Counter in Trafficking Persons Unit at the Ministry of Human Services, Tanisha Williams-Corbin, said that this number remains alarming knowing the size of the pollution in Guyana. “Human trafficking continues to plague our society…just to give you an example; in 2020 the Ministry of Human Service trafficking in person unit recording, identifying and assisting
225. This number, it may sound like a small number, but if you take into consideration Guyana’s population; you can understand why it’s very concerning. That is a small country; we identify 225 suspected victims of human trafficking. That is just for one year and what about those who were unreported?” With the need for greater emphasis in
dealing with human trafficking, the Ministry of Human Service has introduced the program to train officers from around the country to specialize in the service of dealing with persons of human trafficking. This is important, according to the Ministry, since police ranks are deemed as first responders to the crime and should be able to handle any case and identify them, as victims
Lusignan prison escapee recaptured
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Man kills brother-in-law over missing bicycle
The Guyana Police Force is now hunting for a Sophia man, who stabbed his brother in law to death over a cycle he lost some time back. Dead is 23-yearold Daniel Boutrin, a mason of 157 Guyhoc Park, Georgetown. According to the police statement, Boutrin was stabbed on March 13, but succumbed to his injuries two days later. Reports are that it was just around 08:30hrs in ‘D’ Field
Sophia on the day in question, Boutrin was at the home of his inlaws, when an argument erupted between him and 25-year-old suspect over a bicycle. Boutrin had borrowed the cycle from the suspect during the latter part of last year and later misplaced it. The argument escalated. The suspect armed himself with a knife while the deceased armed himself with a cutlass. However, the parents
intervened and caused the suspect to leave the premises. The suspect was not, however, finished, as moments later as the Boutrin was about to enter a taxi, he was confronted and stabbed several times. Boutrin fell to the ground and was rushed to a nearby hospital where he stayed receiving treatment for his injuries but died. Police are still to arrest the suspect, who remains on the run since the incident occurred.
Guyana Post Wednesday March 17, 2021
COVID-19 death toll is now 209
Guyana has recorded yet another COVID-19 related death, taking the death toll to 209. The latest victim is a 66-year-old woman from Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica). She reportedly died while receiving treatment
at a local health facility. The Ministry of Health has expressed its sincerest condolences to the family of the deceased and will make every effort to provide all the necessary support during this difficult time to render
any assistance MOH also stressed that Guyana remains under the COVID-19 Pandemic and that all should continue to adhere to the guideline to protect themselves from the Virus.
Following an argument over who can dance better, a 19-year-old Kuru Kururu woman is now dead after she was stabbed to death by a 20-year-old Suspect. The victim was Kameel Calistro of Swan, Kuru Kururu, Sosedkye/Linden Highway According to the initial report, it was just around 03:45hrs on Sunday, when it was revealed that the young girl with some family members and friends were consuming
alcohol in front of a house, while music played from a car. After some timeconsuming alcohol, just around 02:00 hrs 20-yearold Kristopher Stoll from Swan, Kuru Kururu, started an argument about which girl could have danced better. That argument with Stoll and relatives of the victim spiralled into a heated one, where Stoll drew a knife from his right side waist and attempted to stab at 29-year-old
Adolph Joseph of 46 Swan Kuru Kururu, a cousin of the victim. The intended target luckily sustained a minor laceration to the lower left side abdomen. Calistro was not so lucky after she would have intervened. As she was stabbed to the left side abdomen. She later collapsed and was rushed to the GPHC, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. The body is awaiting a post mortem examination.
Kuru Kururu woman stabbed during drunken argument to 206
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Guyana Post Wednesday March 17, 2021
COVID-19 has helped the resilient but cursed the wider society
Adam’s Note Book The first COVID-19 case hit Guyana a year ago. It was an imported case with the woman coming from Queens, New York. Guyanese were not worried because there was talk about the heat killing the coronavirus. Then the disease started to spread. Relatives of the imported case became afflicted. These then spread the disease to many with whom they came into contact. But even then there was no panic. People fooled themselves into believing that in a short while the virus would disappear. That was wishful thinking. When last the Ministry made the announcement about the fatalities, the number was 204. Most of the cases came from the most populous region— Region Four where the greatest number of cases was among men. Sometimes people come to realize that even when something stares people in the face they choose to ignore it. In fact, some pretend that it does not exist. And so it is with the COVID-19. The Ministry of Health released a number of measures to limit the
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spread of the disease. These included washing the hands, avoid rubbing the face, sanitizing as often as possible, and practice social distancing. These are simple things for most. Avoiding crowds is no problem for many so people scaled back on wedding receptions and funeral crowds. But there were those who believed themselves to be immune so they crowded the bars and restaurants. Some hosted street parties and attracted crowds. Others just sought out any entertainment they could get. Nearly 9,000 people have been infected so far but most have recovered largely because the disease did not hurt them as it did those who have underlying conditions. Hypertension, diabetes, and the like were considered underlying conditions. It is heartening to see almost everyone on the streets of Georgetown wearing a mask. Shops make it mandatory that unless there is a mask the customer cannot enter; minibuses are supposed to enforce the mask rule but some, as can be
expected, take a chance. Sometimes I see the police getting involved. But there have been some useful things to come out of the pandemic. Suddenly Zoom has become the primary means of communication. I remember when Skype was the way to go. Now it is Zoom. Court hearings are conducted in this manner. It is called virtual hearing. Prisoners go to court without leaving the prison compound and get sentenced once they are convicted. The lawyers do not have to be near them. His or her presence is also virtual. People have attended court hearings from the confines of their homes or from their offices. There have been attempts to conduct school using the virtual forum but this is Guyana. In the first instance, many children do not have computers. But they all have cell phones—at least the adolescents and the phones are not what some call the mango pelter. However, there are not enough internet sites. And no young person is keen to spend money on data for the phone to
use to attend classes in school. The result is that for one year most children have had nothing to do with institutional learning. Even when there was a school there were those who only attended and learnt nothing. We would see them with brand-name shoes and clothing at the side of the road after school. Today there are teenagers who do not know the alphabet. And that is only the tip of the iceberg. I expect to see more teenagers committing robberies on the streets. Their numbers have grown and they all want to flash a wad and to be drinking beers and Guinness. The money will come from innocent hard-working people. And sadly, some of these people will die in the process because
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the person with limited intelligence will not reason. There were other bad things; small businesses collapsed; daycare centres closed their doors and generally, people in the lowest income brackets became the hardest hit, financially. The decision by the political directorate to terminate the services of some of the public servants has not helped the situation. It is back to the days when people called on their resources to eke out a living. The enterprising brought their culinary skills and offered their products for sale. None of them can challenge KFC and Church’s and other fast food joints but they do earn enough to put food on the table. Kitchen gardens are flourishing so COVID had pushed people to become resilient. Yet
Guyana would prefer life without COVID if only to see children grasping an education. And as an aside, COVID testing is a money-making thing. Initially, some testing sites charged $25,000. If someone has to go overseas, that person at least 72 hours before departure must take the test and present the certificate at the airport. Recently, I learnt that there is one hospital that is offering the test for $10,000. Whatever the case, that is still a lot of money. There is the contention that the government is testing for free but the stigma attached to COVID is keeping many people away from those sites. I know for certain that I am not hearing people coughing as they used to in the good old days. Even sneezing has become a rarity. Life has really changed.