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(From page 41) escaped with raw gold, firearm, phones and at least six tractors. While workers were attacked, there were no reports of fatalities. At each camp the men attacked, they reportedly destroyed the communication system, making it difficult for ranks and even the owner for the camps to get information. Sheriff Mining Company owned by Mohamed Sheriff Henry was attacked on Monday afternoon. The gold miner told reporters the bandits escaped with his guard’s weapons and an undisclosed amount of gold after beating his workers. Henry noted that he heard that bandits were in the area and made contact with the police at the Bartica Police Station on Friday. He said that he was informed that the ranks were already aware of the issue. He added that on Friday, the police made contact with him and informed him that his camp had been attacked. ”I ask the police how they know and they said that one of my workers was heading to the camp when he saw what was happening and immediately went to the other camp where he called the police at the Landing,” Henry noted. He said that he had been told that the bandits took a female cook and another woman who were at his camp hostage but when contacted, Budhram said that he had not received that information and would only divulge what had been reported to him. LINDENER GETS LIFE FOR KILLING ESTRANGED LOVER’S SON Rawle Samuels, 29, has been
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sentenced to life imprisonment for the unlawful killing of a four-yearold boy. Samuels was sentenced Tuesday by Justice Nareshwar Harnanan after a probation report was presented on his behalf at the Georgetown High Court. Samuels, of Buck Hill Wismar, Linden must serve 30 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole. He was originally indicted for the murder of four-year-old Jamal Naranjan Nedd but he pleaded guilty to the lesser count of Manslaughter. The probation report outlined that Samuels had a history of violence and had been charged before for fracturing the jaw of the mother of his children after hitting her to the face with a hatchet. The report also mentioned instances of alcohol and drug use. According to the information, Samuels is said to have also shared an abusive relationship with the mother of the four year –old, with whom he later formed a common law relationship. On one occasion, he used an electric iron to burn the woman after she refused to iron his clothes. Samuels reportedly killed the four year- old in retaliation to his mother indicating that she no longer wanted any relationship with him. The report further outlined that Samuels acknowledged that his action led to the death of the child and he wished to be forgiven. He also expressed anger over the stigma attached to his name. According to the indictment presented by State Prosecutors Siand Dhurjon, Shawnette Austin and Lisa Case the four-year-old nursery school child, was brutally
stabbed repeatedly about the body by his mother’s paramour. The incident occurred on February, 6, 2013 at Buck Hill Wismar Linden. The child, Nedd, had reportedly just returned home from school, when he came under attack from the man, with whom his mother shared a relationship. The police only arrived at the scene after the child was viciously stabbed, and Samuels had made good his escape. He was apprehended later and charged for the crimes. The child’s intestines protruded from the incision in his abdomen. He was rushed to the Linden Hospital Complex where he died shortly after.
38,000 IN 16 SCHEMES TO GET LIGHTS FOR CHRISTMAS The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) will be roll-
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ing out its 2017 Electrification Programme to install the infrastructure so that 38,000 residents across Guyana can receive electricity. This plan was explained Tuesday by Chief Executive Officer of the CH&PA, Lelon Saul, at the entity’s Brickdam office. The communities to benefit are Onderneeming in RegionTwo; Zeelugt in Region Three; for Region Four there are Farm, Covent Garden, Diamond, Eccles, Perseverance, Barnwell and Peter’s Hall on the East Bank of Demerara along with Paradise and Enmore on the East Coast of Demerara. Hope/Experiment in Region Five; Kilcoy/Chesney in Region Six and Bartica for Region Seven ae he beneficiaries. Some of these communities have been without electricity for close to five years now. The cost of the entire project is pegged at $471M. THURSDAY
mother of one of the men who was previously charged and released on bail for Spready’s Money Gram robbery that took place earlier in 2017. Sources close to the investigation revealed that the five persons were picked up based on reports that they were aiding and assisting the escapee in Berbice. Alexander is said to be hiding in the Port Mourant Backlands. Up to press time members of the joint forces were combing the area. The source also disclosed that one of the persons in custody was taken into the backlands to lead ranks to the area where the escapee is believed to be hiding. It was revealed that Alexander knows the area well, and he is using this knowledge to his advantage. Ranks on the police mobile patrol were seen scouting the New Forest area, East Canje, Rose Hall and Port Mourant while a helicopter flew overhead.
FIVE ARRESTED AS RANKS IN ‘B’ DIVISION TIGHTEN GRIP ON PRISON ESCAPEE
PRESIDENT APPOINTS JUSTICE OFAPPEAL, PUISNE JUDGES
As reports of sightings of escaped Camp Street prisoner Stafrei Hopkinson Alexander called “Mad Dog”, ranks in ‘B’ Division have launched a search and in the process, based on information received, arrested four men and a woman in connection with the escaped convict. Reports reaching this publication states that the four men were arrested between Tuesday and Wednesday. All are from Babu Jaan, Port Mourant, and Rose Hall town. The woman is said to be the
Emphasizing the importance of integrity, impartiality, and independence of the Judiciary, President David Granger, on Wednesday swore in four new High Court Judges and a Justice of Appeal. The first to take the oath of office as a Justice of Appeal was Justice Deo Rishi Persaud. President Granger presented Persaud with his credentials to serve as an Appellate Judge. The Court of Appeal now comprises Justice Dawn Gregory, Justice Rishi Persaud, Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards and (Continued on page 43)