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Fast food outlet employee charged for $19M robbery
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hirty-three-year-old Candacy Stuart, a former supervisor at local fast food business Royal Castle, was on Friday placed before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where she answered to three counts of theft charges. Stuart, who is now a vendor, pleaded not guilty to all charges when she appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan. The first allegation detailed that between January 2, 2019, and February 27, 2019, at Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD), while being a clerk or servant at Royal Castle, she stole $4.6 million in property of the said business. The second charge alleged that between January 2, 2018, and September 29, 2018, at Sheriff Street, Georgetown, while being a clerk or servant, stole $8.7 million in property of Royal Castle. Meanwhile, the final charge stated that between October 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018, at Diamond, EBD, while being employed being a clerk or
Charged: Candacy Stuart
servant at the aforementioned entity, stole $5.9 million in property of Royal Castle. Facts presented in court on Friday revealed that during the abovementioned time-frame, the establishment had an internal audit conducted to inspect its financial accounts. During this period, the millions mentioned in the charge were unaccounted for. This led to a Police report being made and an investigation launched. At the end of same, Stuart was indicted for the offence. However, Attorney-at-Law Dexter Todd successfully obtained bail for the mother of three. The Chief Magistrate granted the defendant bail in the sum of $300,000 and ordered that she lodge her passport with the court and report to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Fraud Department every Friday until the conclusion of a Preliminary Inquiry trial. The matter was adjourned to December 5, 2019.
“Ratty” to face jury for 2017 murder of minibus driver
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27-year-old man was on Friday afternoon committed to stand trial in the High Court for the murder of minibus driver, Tedroy James, also called “Six Head”, who was shot and killed in the village of Mc Doom, East Bank Demerara (EBD) two years ago. Orwin Peters, called “Ratty”, a mechanic of lot 48 Norton Street, Bagotstown, EBD, was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge which stated that on July 11, 2017, he murdered James in the course or furtherance of a robbery.
Senior Magistrate Fabayo Azore on Friday afternoon ruled that after considering the prosecution’s evidence, the Court opined that a sufficient case had been made out against Peters and as such, committed him to stand trial in the High Court. Reports about James’ murder state that on the day in question, the Route 32 minibus driver, who was a resident of Suddie Housing Scheme, Essequibo Coast, Region Two, was shot dead around noon when he attempted to drive away from
Orwin Peters, called “Ratty”
armed bandits, who robbed several passengers on his bus. James was said to have sustained a single shot to his head and was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) moments after the shooting but he was pronounced dead on arrival. It was a Police release shortly after the man’s murder that stated that James was driving his minibus BTT 976 along the EBD roadway in the vicinity of Mc Doom when he stopped to put off a passenger there. Just as the passenger was about to disembark the minibus, two male suspects, including one armed with a handgun, pounced on the unsuspecting passengers and began to rob them. James, reacting to this, sought to take his passengers to safety and attempted to drive away from the location in a move to prevent the bandits from hurting or robbing more persons. However, the armed bandit fired one shot to James’ head before he and his accomplice fled the scene. The matter was then reported and Peters was subsequently arrested and charged for the offence.
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…de elek-shan
s the Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency observed - when he announced that several bodies were approved by the Foreign Affairs Ministry as “observers” of our upcoming elections (March 2?) - this has been a practice from “time immemorial”! Maybe he exaggerated matters a tad, but we know what he means, don’t we?? And it’s for that reason that your Eyewitness ain’t that complacent about the elections not being rigged! And that’s what the Observers are supposed to prevent, aren’t they?? The point is, as Harmon was alluding, there wereElections Observers back in 1968, 1973, 1978 (referendum), 1980, and 1985 – and these were all massively rigged by the PNC. The PNC not only kept on ruling but constructed the Burnhamite dictatorship on the backs of such results as their 2/3 majority they awarded themselves in 1973. So what if, for instance, in 1980, the British Parliamentary Human Rights Group Observer team pronounced the elections “more crooked that barbed wire? Or that it was headed by Lord Avebury – a Peer of the Realm?? So yes, the Carter Center, EU, OAS, Commonwealth Secretariat will be coming to oversee, as the Opposition Leader said, “quality control” over the process. And folks are excited that the Carter Center will be back, because they “returned free and fair elections” to Guyana back in 1992, didn’t they?? Well, that’s the myth that’s been created but we know it wasn’t exactly so. As President Carter himself recounted, when marauding PNC mobs stormed the elections headquarters after preliminary results indicated the PPP would win, IT TOOK A CALL FROM THE SITTING PRESIDENT OF THE US of A to Desmond Hoyte, to accept the results. And muster out troops to force Hamilton Green to stand down!! Good thing Hoyte had the foresight to bypass the rabidly Burnhamite David Granger and appoint Joe Sings as the head of the GDF back in 1990, or our history would’ve certainly been quite different!! And now you know why Granger’s first act as President was to award Green an OR and a fat pension!! The question today, of course, will be what will the present sitting president of the USA do if polling stations in PNC strongholds are overrun by PNC partisans after 6:30 pm when night has fallen?? Or if the data is corrupted in GECOM headquarters - even though former Elections Chief of Canada, Jean-Pierre Kingsley will be there “to offer advice on best practices in operational matters”? While your Eyewitness accepts that Observers are necessary, he KNOWS they aren’t sufficient to prevent PNC rigging. Cause, as we saw in Bolivia recently, even the Observers have their agendas!! We gun watch dem?
…de H2H shuffle
But even before those Observers arrive, we’ve got to get that Official List of Voters (OLE) right, right? Or else, those Observers might be properly observing scads of folks who could be voting twice, or voting illegally etc. How’d they know the difference if the names are there since all of us natives look alike!?! So where do we stand on this process that’s already consumed almost a year – in a country where at most there are 600,000 voters. India (with 900 million voters) and other parliamentary democracies, takes 3 months. The Opposition leader gave a recap: of 370,000 persons registered during the HtH, 305,000 were on the NRRD. The “extra” 65,000 could’ve been new registrants. Only 37,300 were over 18 but further checks by GECOM discovered 17,000 on the PLE. So we’re left with 20,000 possible new registrants – which cost $3.5Billion to gather!! Since there’s scads of time to March 2, (?) Jagdeo allowed he’d accept them on the OLE - provided there’s a joint verification exercise. Peace BEFORE Christmas??
…others feasing
Jagdeo suggested that sugar workers could’ve been given a wage increase by GusSuCo from the $30Bond that was floated with Guysuco’s assets or from the billions from scrap metal. Readers are invited to send their comments by email to eye@guyanatimesgy.com