Friday May 25, 2012
Kaieteur News
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Dumped body of US-based citizen on C’tyne…
Third woman held with slain man’s wedding ring Police have detained a third woman as they step up efforts to apprehend the remaining suspects in the murder of US-based Guyanese Abdool Shakeel Majid, whose battered body was dumped on the Number 56 Village, Corentyne
foreshore last month. Kaieteur News understands that the woman, a Corentyne resident, was taken into custody on Wednesday after she was found in possession of the slain man’s wedding ring. A source said that a
- victim laid to rest at Blankenburg relative of the murdered man positively identified the diamond-studded ring. According to reports, the woman claimed that she got
More repairs on Harbour Bridge…
One-lane traffic from tomorrow Work at the Demerara Harbour Bridge last month
The Demerara Harbour Bridge is set to facilitate onelane traffic for four days, starting tomorrow, to make possible its second leg of emergency works on the retractor span.
According to the notice sent to mobile phones yesterday, management of the bridge said that the closure will end on Tuesday, May 29th, with works being carried out this time on the western
section of the span. Late last month, the bridge carried out similar operations on the eastern end of the retractor span amidst an increase of heavy traffic in recent times.
the jewellery from her husband. She is said to be a relative of Seerojonie Permaul, called “Usha,” of 52 Belvedere Housing Scheme, Corentyne, Berbice, who, along with Majid’s wife, Hemwattie Abdulla, has been charged with his murder. Police are looking for the woman’s husband and another man, since there is information that they played a major part in the crime. Relatives disclosed that Majid was laid to rest yesterday at Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara. Majid’s wife, 37-year-old
Hemwattie Abdulla, also known as Anita Nazeema Khan, of Albion, Corentyne, and of 116-02 132nd Street South Ozone Park, New York, USA, and Seerojonie Permaul, were charged on Tuesday. They were further remanded on Wednesday after making a second appearance in the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Krishandat Persaud. It is alleged that on April 26, last, at No 63 Beach, the accused murdered Abdool Shakeel Majid, 43, a citizen of the United States of America. Majid’s body, with scalp
Murdered: Abdul Majid missing, was found on April 27 at the Number 56 Village, (Continued on page 23)