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Chief Magistrate demands REINSTATEMENT!
Chief Magistrate breaks silence after four years of forced leave
- will not take part in any misconduct hearings
Embattled Chief Magistrate Juliet Holder-Allen, who has been on leave for four years for alleged misconduct, has lashed out against the Judicial Service Commission, claiming that there is misconduct there.
Speaking at a press conference at Capitol News Studios yesterday, Holder-Allen also disclosed that she would not be taking part in any hearings against her, since the officials hearing the complaints are the ones making them.
She said that she was compelled to clear the air after President Bharrat Jagdeo, during a press conference on Saturday at the State House, said that he does not interfere with the Judicial Service Commission, which is mandated to look into alleged wrongdoing by workers in the justice system. She contended that his response to a question about her suggested that she was involved in wrongdoing.
The Chief Magistrate was sent on leave after she was accused of, among other things, interfering in the ruling of another magistrate, whose contract has not been renewed; seeking to chastise former Minister Bibi Shadick on the phone; and for allegedly insulting a Mrs Duff in her court. The Chief Magistrate has denied all these allegations.
According to Holder-Allen, she was under the impression that her forced leave was about to be resolved and was getting somewhere.
Justice Prem Persaud, Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary Carl Singh and Mrs Chandra Jagnandan, whom she described as a typist, are the persons whom she accused of causing her to be off the bench. Mrs Jagnandan signed the letter sending Holder-Allen on leave.
The matter can never be resolved unless former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Madam Desiree Bernard, who is a sitting judge on the Caribbean Court of Justice, returns to Guyana and explains the mess, the official said.
Listing her troubles, the official claimed that two lawyers, whom she did not name but whom she inferred were not Guyanese, were trying to poison her with sapodillas and pastries. One of these has since died.
She said that there were death threats, with murdered whistleblower George Bacchus telling her, one day before his death, that she was among a list of persons to be killed.
According to the Chief Magistrate, she is not guilty of any misconduct.
She claimed, without stating when, that a group of armed men in a white car came looking for her but were directed to another place.
There are some beliefs among lawyers that High Court judges are making millions of dollars from cases before them that were initiated by a foreign assistance programme. In these matters, judges are paid thousands of dollars to clear out old and backlogged cases.
If one wants to talk about misconduct, then this is one instance, and the judges involved should be disbarred for having a financial interest in matters before them.
Reiterating her demands for reinstatement, the Chief Magistrate said that she wanted all her opportunities and all that have been taken away from her.
According to Holder-Allen, she is a lawyer of good standing, who came from a reputable chamber. Therefore, there could be no justification to her being sent on leave by a clerk.
Further, with there being a clear conflict of interest, where the persons making the complaints have to hear her case in the Judicial Service Commission, the Chief Magistrate said that she has drawn the line and will not be part of it.
I am a defense counsel, and if I cannot represent myself then I am of no use to anyone, the outspoken magistrate said.
The situation where there could be a clear and unbiased hearing does not exist, and I have a serious problem with that. Obviously, I have been doing something right.
According to Holder-Allen, she has no problem standing up for justice, and if there comes a time when a decision is made to relive her of duty, the campaign for justice will take a significant turn. I will lead it.
She stressed that there are no complaints or cases against her, and she is the one suffering.
The Chief Magistrate also disclosed that she is moving to international courts and has signed papers to that effect.
The Chief Magistrate questioned why her leave of absence has taken four years, in the absence of any complaints.
By supererro
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
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For Linded
I'm on baord in restoring MSC, lets go people lets come together.
By wisrocrawle
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 |
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Macbeth's witches & Robert Corbin!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT IS IT THE GUYANESE MASSES REALLY WANT??????????????
THE FREDDIE KISSOON COLUMN
Mo fyaah/slow fyaah and the police firing back
The PNC staged its biggest march to date last Thursday since it took to the streets to protest the four-month suspension of Channel 6 and other social maladies.
The police didn't like what they saw and fired back; not literally of course. The police force in its press statement asserted that it will take action against the PNC leadership for directing the procession along routes for which permission was not given.
And the police claimed that barricades were thrown down by marchers. The last time the police moved against Mr. Corbin for alleged illegal occupation of public space was in 2001 on the perimeters of the Presidential Complex. We all know the subsequent events.
Earlier in the afternoon, I went to buy flower plants at Bourda Market. I told the vendor that I will make my selection and return in the afternoon to collect them.
He told me he would not be there because he understood that the marchers will pass by the market. I tried to reassure him that in a majority of countries in the world people protest the policies of government that they feel are hurtful.
I made the point that in rich Trinidad, one of the major unions had given notice of strike action against rising food prices, and in Guyana where the prices are biting deeper than in Trinidad, we are nowhere near that kind of reaction.
Nevertheless, he said he was leaving early because as he put it; You never know what could happen.
Well things did happen. I saw the demonstrators at the junction of Camp and Regent Streets outside the City Mall, and memories of mo fyaah/slow fyaah came rushing back to me. The term was invented by Desmond Hoyte and became the political weapon for confronting the Jagdeo Government.
Hoyte's outline was that the PPP will not seek compromise and tune down its bad governance unless the PNC flexes its muscle. A majority of citizens (including this columnist) felt that mo fyaah/slow fyaah had backfired as a political approach.
The economy was hurting, the population wanted a break from the aggression, and the PPP was using mo fyaah/slow fyaah to paint Mr. Hoyte as a devil, and PPP constituencies were rallying behind the government.
When Hoyte died, Mr. Corbin extinguished the flames of mo fyaah/slow fyaah. Mr. Corbin banished Macbeth's witches and settled down to mainstream politics.
Seven and a half years without mo fyaah/slow fyaah has left Mr. Corbin facing devastating criticism from major sectors of the Guyanese society.
Now with shades of mo fyaah/slow fyaah in the atmosphere, with threats of a boycott of CARIFESTA, Mr. Corbin is coming under critical scrutiny from the very sections of the Guyanese society that accused him of leading a lacklustre opposition.
Mr. Corbin must be saying to himself; Damned if you do, damned if you don't. When he was in a silent mood, he received severe castigation for allowing the PPP to drive a runaway train. One particular editorial in the Stabroek News lamented an ineffective opposition.
So has mo fyaah/slow fyaah returned? Whatever form it takes, one hopes mo fyaah/slow fyaah does not result in violence. It will do not do any good for the PNC and Guyana as a whole.
But there is a large BUT. However, the PNC, the AFC and other opposition groups had to come up with some strategy for dealing with the intensification of bad governance since the August 2006 election.
The total opposition has faced harsh and trenchant condemnation from a society that has watched helplessly as the Government of Guyana drifted from one egregious action to another.
It would be appropriate to say that the government is indeed on a runaway train.
One has to be dishonest to say that the Guyana Government is a shining example of democratic politics. One explanation for the runaway train since August 2006 has to do with the absence of protest. This is a theoretical validity that is water proof.
If a society lacks the spirit of protest, the government will internalize a psychological fiction. It will feel that it is invincible. It will feel that it can do whatever it wants.
The result is the descent into authoritarianism. Authoritarian state behaviour has been relentless since August 2006. Since the death of mo fyaah/slow fyaah with the passing of Mr. Hoyte, Guyana has seen the demise of protest. The other side of the coin is elected dictatorship.
So is mo fyaah/slow fyaah back? Hard as it is to accept, Mr. Hoyte's strategy of mo fyaah/slow fyaah was not as self-destructive as it appears. It did have its efficacious moments. It brought the Herdmanston Accord. It allowed for the dialogue between Government and Opposition. It gave us the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting. It forced the Government to accept the sectoral committees of Parliament.
When Macbeth's witches were sent home, look what became of all these things. Either they no longer exist or they have been contemptuously de-recognized by the ruling political elites.
After Lusignan and Bartica, the government responded in a way that reminded the country of the days of Mr. Hoyte and his invention of mo fyaah/slow fyaah.
All the major stakeholders were invited to map out a strategy of cooperation. Once unity was achieved, the government went back into its authoritarian mode; the opposition amendments to the stakeholders' agreement in the form of a Government motion in Parliament were denied.
It must have dawned on Mr. Corbin that time was running out and it was time to bring back Macbeth's witches.
By supererro
Sunday, May 11, 2008 |
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The sack for CANU officers who fail lie detector test- President Jagdeo
Mr. President, I strongly recommend that you start using the lie detector on you and your ministers of your government to see who fails the test so you can kick them out. But please don't use it on yourself first....never know.
I think you start in the wrong place. If you keep up with testing in the wrong places, soon we will not have anymore police on payroll.
Nuff respect.
By Field Marshall
Sunday, May 11, 2008 |
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STILL WAITING
If you're interested in assisting us in doing some work to restore MSC, first by painting the wall and then ultimately restoring the swimming pool so our kids can have a place to be during the summer holidays, please feel free to email us at restorelinden@gmail.com We will have a website up shortly where there will be a full account of every penny of your money. Every single cent donated will go towards restoring our community, projects that including simple things like permanent garbage receptacles at the corner of every street, to weeding and teaching everyone from the kids to the adults what it means to have pride and dignity in your community. There is no reason that being poor or having less should every mean a lack of dignity.
Let's go people. Linden is our home.
By FOR_LINDEN
Sunday, May 11, 2008 |
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louis
Please give me you your email address for more details.
By FOR_LINDEN
Saturday, May 10, 2008 |
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Rocky Balboa of Politics is floored
Freddie Kissoon column
The Rocky Balboa of politics is floored
The story of the fantastic, phenomenal rise of Barack Obama in American politics graphically underscores the philosophical observation and Shakespearian reflection that life is unpredictable. Who would have thought that Mrs. Hillary Clinton (generally regarded as belonging to the Kennedy tradition in American politics) with her designer political tag would have been so humiliated in her race to win her party's nomination that she may not survive another round?
Her rival's popularity tells us a lot about the changing zeitgeist we are seeing in the world today, especially on the American landscape.
Mr. Obama is partly African, is a newcomer (serving his first term in the American Senate) and has no significant wealth to his name. Yet to date, Mr. Obama has won more of the popular votes and has more delegates than Mrs. Clinton heading into the convention of the Democratic Party.
On the surface, Mrs. Clinton is better in her conceptualization of the world of politics than all of her Republican rivals and most of her colleagues in the Democratic Party. She would make a better president than all of those in both major parties in the US, with the exception, of course, of Mr. Obama.
Why Obama? It has to do with the zeitgeist I referred to earlier. The cruelest victim of the changing times in which we live is Owen Arthur, the man who recently lost the election in Barbados after serving two consecutive terms as Prime Minister. Nothing was wrong with the eight-year rule of Mr. Arthur; nothing except the eight-year period itself.
Under his leadership, Barbados had done exceedingly well. Mr. Arthur's track record was the type that would have easily caused him to be re-elected. In the end, the eight-year period was seen as long enough by the Barbadian electorate. In other words, the Bajans wanted change.
Their longing was not an indictment of Mr. Arthur but the need for newer people to be given a chance. Change has become the biggest enemy of Mrs. Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton is perceived by a majority of young Americans as belonging to the old school of American leaders. They feel that such people are back door negotiators who are prone to conspiracies and deal-making; that they know the status quo makers and the corporation bosses and that they are not going to go against them when they come to power.
Mrs. Clinton couldn't learn and cannot learn from her mistakes because she comes from the tradition of the establishment network. Her first faux pas was when she berated Obama for saying that he would at least try to talk to foreign leaders who are enemies of the US Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba among others. She came across as a Republican hawk. She didn't learn from that.
She sounded like Bush last week when she remarked that she would blow away Iran if it attacks Israel with nuclear weapons if she was President. This style did not do her image any good.
The feeling of the American people is that they want a break with that type of power wielding. This is the reason for the tide of Obamamania that is sweeping the US. Everywhere, people around the world are clamouring for change. We see it in Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Jamaica, Kenya. The desire of the world's electorate is to give others a chance. The mood in the world today is one of the mistrust of power.
World citizenry feels that power should not be possessed for too long. Power is not like engineering, surgery or teaching. When an engineer spends a longer time on the job fixing machines, he/she comes to have a wider knowledge of the things they have to repair. In the case of a surgeon, the more operations he/she performs, the technique of competence increases.
A teacher develops a deeper grasp of his/her subject the longer they spend in the classroom.
Power is not like that. Power messes with its possessor's mind and psyche. It undermines one's rationality as one gets a tighter grip on the handle of authority. The simple person becomes the haughty leader. Vision, astuteness and energy decreases. In the end, power destroys. It always destroys its holder when it is clung to for too long.
In Guyana, we swim against the tide. When all around us governments are getting voted out, we put back people who have been around for far too long. We had that chance in 2006 but we proved how backward as a people we are.
Two parties, born more than fifty years ago, still remain the biggest vote catchers. And all because we vote race and vote against change.
Here in Guyana we have a president that is nine years in power; we have three Ministers who have occupied a Cabinet position since 1992 (sixteen years), we have a Minister who has been in the Cabinet, first as a political affairs advisor from 1992, and now as a Minister (again sixteen years). Then there is the Head of the Presidential Secretariat who has handled that portfolio since 1992 (again sixteen years).
One wonders what next we will see in a certain column in the Mirror newspaper today about the United States. Whatever we think about the United States, this I know its people are surely not as backward as us. In a country where the white folks are 66 percent of the population, the most likely candidate to become president is a man that looks very much like an African American.
By supererro
Saturday, May 10, 2008 |
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want to donate
can u please relply with better info about donating the money for the rebuilding of our comunity
By louise
Friday, May 09, 2008 |
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HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to Amen-rata
To: Amen-rata,
I hope you had a wonderful day and thank God for seeing you through.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
By pinky
Friday, May 09, 2008 |
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Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the most qualified candidate for the Democratic nomination and the American presidency. I believe he will bring positive changes to America and restore confidence to our society. I thus encourage everyone to include Obama in their prayers and petition God to place him as head of the United States. We need to do all that we can to ensure Obama's victory not only on a physical plane, but spiritual plane as well. Because if the Republican candidate wins the White House, Lord help us all.
By lightskin
Friday, May 09, 2008 |
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Hi Ashraf
Hi Ashraf, see you looking good with your country woman unlike the last time.You still looking good.
By Lindengirl
Friday, May 09, 2008 |
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Happy Birthday to My Family, Friends and Myself
Greetings:
Are going out to My Sister Shaundell Hinds 5th of May, Mother Esme Yangapatty 22nd of May, Cousins Trevor Taylor 22nd of May and Deborah Harry 31st of May, Myself 26th of May.
My Aunt Lily Spencer and her Husband Chiney Spencer Happy Anniversary to you on your special day, 22nd of May.
My friend rata-amen Happy Birthday to you on this special day, 8th of May.
To all the viewers that are celebrating their Birthday in the Month of May, Have a Happy Birthday. From Marcia aka Pinky.
By pinky
Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
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WISROCRAWLE
Thank you. I'll email you shortly with the details. Are you in Guyana or overseas?
By FOR_LINDEN
Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
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FOR_LINDEN-FOR OUR TOWN
I'm intrested in making a donation and working during the August holidays to cleaning up sports club and the pool....i can be contacted at jerry2x45@yahoo.com
By wisrocrawle
Thursday, May 08, 2008 |
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TARA SINGH: A DINOSAUR OF GUYANA'S "APAN JHAAT" ERA
Tara Singh: A dinosaur of Guyana's "Apan Jhaat" era
And enabler of racism and Indian supremacy in Guyana
By Rickford Burke
Part I
The Guyanese polity is being emasculated by the following socio-political malignancies. (I) Rabid PPP racism and the government's arrogant demand to govern unchallenged as an ethnocracy; (II) Pervasive racial discrimination against African-Guyanese; about 40% of the population, and (III) Reprehensibly bad PPP governance; a penchant for theft and corruption, flaunting the rule of law as well as a derision for social justice and equality. The consequence is an inexorable movement towards further political instability, congealed racial polarization, social degeneration and economic stagnation. The confluence of these dynamics renders the country ungovernable.
Amidst this decay of the social order and threat to black survival, PPP leaders engage in delusional denials that racial discriminate is nonexistent. After 15 years in office, they parrot their 28th year PNC rule mantra as a sinister crutch for a revisionist schema to eviscerate black contribution to Guyana's development. An example of their revisionism is their reference to Cheddie Jagan as the "father" of the nation. He is not. Forbes Burnham undeniably is. Burnham brought independence to Guyana. The PPP must not be allowed to rewrite history. We must block them at every attempt.
Discredited PPP representative and dinosaur of Guyana's "Apan Jhaat" era of racism, Dr. Tara Singh, is an obdurate executioner of racist revisionism. He has metamorphosized from a relic of the culture of hate to a political hooligan who is equally incapable of competing in the arena of rational ideas without inciting racism. A vestige of Guyana's 1960's civil (race) war, Singh is an innately dishonest and immoral creature, who has injected his insidious brand of bigotry into Guyana's contemporary politics like a cancerous poison in the bowels of a nascent national polity.
His evildoings include conspiracies with the Office of the President and the state-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper to attack me and other African Guyanese leaders, while vehemently denying us the right to respond. Their refusal to publish the views of Afro-Guyanese is a manifestation of the PPP's oppressive, ethnocratic governance. They usurp the resources of the state for the sole benefit of the Indian collective and practice their philosophy of "Apan Jhaat" - Indian supremacy - African hate. But why are they afraid to publish the views of Africans? African Guyanese pay taxes. They must use their ingenuity and innovative genius to force a change of course.
Renowned Austrian sociologist, Friedrich Otto Hertz, said that "At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when he brought some people into being." Singh's actions proves Hertz's theory. A proven racist, cloaked as a self-styled Indian nationalist, Singh is head of a racist group called the Indian Caribbean Council, of which the sole qualification for membership is race. While there are legitimate reasons for ethnic identity and the preservation of ethnic culture, the purpose of Singh's group is not cultural empowerment. Rather, it promotes racial supremacy and Hindu sectarianism in a multi-ethnic, multiracial society. This brand of racial fundamentalism has, in some countries, burgeoned into forms of religious extremism.
Similar racial, extremist groups exist in America as well, although they are mostly reserved for Caucasians. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) comes to mind. In order to understand the nefariousness of Tara Singh's brand of fanaticism and the danger it poses to social justice and racial equality in Guyana, one only needs to observe the workings of the PPP in Guyana. Their objective is to promote Indian supremacy and to effect the diminution of the role and influence of non-Indian Guyanese. It is this trademark bigotry fuels Singh's fanaticism and desire to spawn a cross-border racial axis that is rooted in the evil philosophy of ethnocracy.
Singh has been defender -in -chief of, and has praised, Ronald Gajraj and Roger Khan for their atrocities. The two allegedly ran the Phantom death squad which has executed over 400 African-Guyanese young men, with impunity. These murders have never been investigated. Singh is an advocate of their mercenary behaviors and has openly embraced Gajraj's alleged agenda of paid assassination of African Guyanese.
He is a narcissist whose ethnic triumphalism mocks the African murder victims of the Phantom death squad. He insults their families and boasts that the killing of their loved ones cannot be proven in a court of law, being so certain of the official protection afforded the perpetrators. For those families and their community, Singh's embrace of the evils of Gajraj's death squad must carry a consequence and certainly must weigh like an albatross around his neck.
He lives comfortably in Queens, New York. Those who suffer the consequences of his despised philosophy are the poor in the depressed communities of Guyana. They, the African Guyanese collective, and the Guyanese people as a whole, must hold people like Singh to account, using every avenue of the law and legitimate civil action to bring them to justice. In Rwanda, enablers, accomplices and agents provocateur of crimes against humanity, who used the state media and other medium to enable genocide, also found themselves at the feet of justice under international law.
Singh is part of an ethnic cabal who advocates that the pass PNC government's alleged misdeeds justify the subjugation of and discrimination blacks. They attempt to use the most vituperative, repugnant and pseudo-intellectualizations to justify their hate. But the true basis of their reign of terror on the black population is innate hatred of blacks.
Singh, who does not know that I am of African, Indian and Portuguese descent, claims that I am a racist for exposing the culture of "Apan Jhaat." But such is the psychology of a racist. The former racist South African President and apartheid leader Pieter Willem (P.W) Botha said that Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders were racist because they condemned apartheid. White racists in America thought the same of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Marcus Garvey, Medgar Evers, etc. It is natural for bigots to use the race card against critics, as there have no defense for their bigotry. However, we wear those labels as a badge of honor for the defeat of evil. Oprah Winfrey likes to say that the best deterrent to racism is excellence. My creed is to work even harder to expose racism.
In his dangerous yearning for an ethnic axis, Singh demonstrates a misplaced bitterness towards Prime Minister Patrick Manning's and the PNM's victory, in Trinidad and Tobago. The PNM's resounding political victory over Basdeo Panday and the UNC in the last two general elections must be galling. On April 28, 2008, Singh called PM Manning a dictator and a racist. It is an outrageous charge. That this bigot can muster the audacity to call Mr. Manning a dictator and a racist, more so when he spews the fulminations of an ethnocractic cabal in Guyana, is repugnant. To him, any non-Indian who dares to defeat a perceived 'Indian' party or exposes fundamentalist racism is a racist.
Singh is ostensibly being paid by the PPP government's Information Agency to engage in slash and burn politics to counter criticisms of the Guyana government as a racist in chief. He resorts desperation and hooliganism as he defends the PPP hegemony and diminishes Guyana's potential for racial harmony. But the latter can never be accomplished with racial dinosaurs like Tara Singh around. They pollute the conduits to national cohesion by bequeathing their reservoirs of hate, bigotry and xenophobia to new generations.
The PPP's justification for its rampant racism and Jim Crow-like policies, is that the previous PNC government, which last governed Guyana 15 years ago, committed similar wrongdoings. They adamantly refuse to conduct an introspection of themselves or inquire into the merits and demerits of particular allegations. Instead, they act like uncivilized creatures, launching smutty propaganda campaign to vilify the victims. Their hatred is so profound that it doesn't allow they to be of any help to Africans.
Defending the Pro Chancellor, Dr. Prem Misir, Tara Singh wrote in the Guyana Chronicle on April 28, 2008 that I launched a scathing attack on Dr Prem Misir of UG on the basis of "perception and innuendos." But Singh is con. My observations about Misir were factal and are irrefuted. I criticized Misir for using his position of Pro-Chancellor of the University to demonstrate his proclivities for racial politics. I said that his prejudices are openly and recklessly promulgated by pen in the daily media as he enmeshes himself into his party's ethnocratic politics.
I also observed that Misir's conduct, when measured against any objective standard as well as the required integrity of other University heads in the region, is an unpalatable embarrassment to his colleagues in academia. He engages in offensive, ethnic revisionism and conclusions underpinned by an overt racist agenda which is unacceptable. Nothing in this is perception. Is Tara Singh telling us that the jaundiced, racist rhetoric, published in the state media under the signature of Misir are an illusion? I challenge Singh and Misir to identify a single University in the region where its head engages in divisive, racist politics.
In response to Singh's infantile claim that Misir has written many books and that I am attempting to sully his character, I would ask; Is Singh aware that Hitler also wrote a book called "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle), which was a best seller, and that America's best known racist and imperial wizard of the KKK, David Duke, also wrote a book?
Singh also regurgitated the PPP's delusional claim that there has been no racial discrimination against blacks or marginalization of blacks as there is no evidence of such. The intellectual dishonesty that pervades Singh's ethnic cabal is so palpable, that it is bewildering that they can stare you in the face and tell you the elephant in the room is a dog! And they believe that if they repeat this lie enough times, then the underlining problems will disappear. They govern by wishful thinking.
He has claimed that PNC, under Forbes Burnham, committed acts of racial discrimination against Indians, and rigged elections. However, Dr. Singh should remember from his association with the farming community that there were East Indians who benefited immensely, financially and politically, from Burnham's economic measures regarding the substitution imported food. Additionally, many East Indians supported the PNC at the polls, including the 1978 referendum, and were privately encouraging the government not to change course. The country might have been better-off today in light of the impending food crisis.
One does not have to look very far for "empirical evidence" to support this fact. Indeed, I would look to Dr. Singh's own writings for verification. In 1978 he co-authored a study which established that Burnham had garnered significant Indian support and that the PNC had mass support among Indians at the polls. Now that an Indian party is in power Singh has conveniently changed his tune. But was Tara Sing honest and credible then or is he honest and credible now?
My sense is that he was honest then and that he is demonstrating his "duck-curry" opportunism by changing his opinions for political expediency to pander at the table of ethnic power. He prostitutes himself for a paycheck and has no moral or professional compass. He is like a dog with a bone who seeks another master with a new bone, and drops the old bone and runs for the new one, forgetting that the mange from the old bone has scared his mouth.
On the issue of racial discrimination and marginalization, Tara Singh claims that there is no evidence of discrimination against, or marginalization of, Africans. His source is the conclusions of a supposed study by Dr. Prem Misir. Misir contends that empirical data disproves African marginalization in Guyana. Again, they are attempting to tell blacks that the 800 pound grey elephant in the room is a dog.
This is an attempt to condition us to think that there is no PPP racism; although Misir has now discredited his original position by being forced to admit that his study was a subjective analysis of what he calls "social marginalization." This means that he deliberately ignored racial discrimination, which the PPP has employed as a political and economic noose around the necks of blacks.
The entire premise of Misir's "so-called" study was fraudulent. Thus its alleged findings are bogus and lack credibility and academic fortitude. It is predicated on and designed specifically to countervail the argument racial discrimination against blacks, black marginalization and exclusion from the decision making process. It intent was to seeks or fabricate subjective indicators to undermine the discrimination argument. It is a dishonest premise and conceptualization that disacknowledge marginalization as a consequence of racism, racial discrimination and the PPP efforts to denigrate them as lesser race.
Moreover, Misir' story was not genuine review of sociological investigation of marginalization. It contained no determinations or comparative analysis on marginalization among other social groups that are specific to gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, etc. This is so because he did not conduct a scientific survey among these groups. When pressured, he claimed that "Our findings focused on only social marginalization; and social marginalization has to do with examining the levels of ethnic participation in the occupational structure.I have been presenting findings addressing the ethnic distribution of participation in the public service."
So, not only does he admit that the findings he has presented ignored prima facie evidence of racial discrimination, but that his so-called study is not a representation of a scientific analysis and holistic review of his own definition of "marginalization." His alleged findings are noting but a cooked-up ethnic assessment of participation in the government service a fairly pedestrian exercise, and a sham that cannot withstand academic scrutiny.
For Misir's education, a Pomona College study made the following sociological determinations about racism, which is the basis for discrimination and marginalization in society. The study found that:
v "Racism is hating or disliking a group of people based on the color of their skin."
v "Making assumptions about people based on their race."
v "Intolerance or prejudice against another race."
v "Violence towards others based on race differences."
v Attitude, action, or way of life whose outcome oppresses people of color and benefits "White" people (other race), regardless of stated intent.
v "A power system that disadvantages some races for the benefit of one or more others; buying into and making use of this system." "Unfairly limiting, overtly or covertly, consciously or unconsciously, someone's life chances on the basis of their ethnicity."
v "Racism is the institutionalized oppression of groups of people based on their race."
v "Institutionalized roles that accord wealth and status to some "racial" groups and not others.
Further, according to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the term "racial discrimination" is "any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, color, descent, national or ethnic origin, which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.
Sociologists Noel Cazenave and Darlene Alvarez Maddern theorize racism as "...a highly organized system of 'race'-based group privilege that operates at every level of society and is held together by a sophisticated ideology of color/race' supremacy. Racist systems include, but cannot be reduced to, racial bigotry."
If Prem Misir genuinely wishes to investigate "marginalization" in Guyana, then I suggest that he must first determine the causations of this social consequence. I submit that PPP racism and racial discrimination has resulted in the marginalization of Afro-Guyanese. This practice is pervasive. It order to arrive at sound conclusions on this matter, Misir must first conduct an objective, scientific survey among Afro-Guyanese to determine whether they have experienced or witnessed racial discrimination and/or believe it exists. He must then investigate specific complaints or instances of racial discrimination and its effect on the our polity and political culture.
It is in the latter contexts that I argue that the PPP government is deeply engaged in massive social, economic and political racism in Guyana. It is this racism that inspires racial and political discrimination and has led to marginalization. Any number of scientific studies will validate this analysis.
By supererro
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Disbanding of key units allowed killer gang to fester
Gangsta's main argument is sound, but to put him in charge of a special squad is asking for trouble. He meant it when he said Yeah, dey could kill de cop, yes, but dem gat fuh dead! Whoever kill de cop, dem gon dead!
Disbanding of key units allowed killer gang to fester
- former Target Squad member
Former member of the once feared Target Special Squad, Sergeant Ian Smith, called Gangsta, is of the view that the security forces are to be blamed for allowing the present Buxton/Agricola gang to grow into the unit it is today, terrorizing the entire nation.
Smith, who recently won a court challenge to his dismissal, told this newspaper in an exclusive interview that the Police Force erred when they disbanded most of their anti-crime units following the deaths of most of the 2002 jailbreak escapees.
He said that since the disbanding of the Target Special Squad and other crime-fighting Police units, the underlings of the criminal underworld have now matured and are creating headaches for the security forces, with massacres and attacks on Police stations ruling the roost today.
He is of the opinion that the present strategy being employed by the security forces waiting for intelligence will not work, and he suggested a more proactive approach to show the criminals that they will not be allowed to hold the country to ransom.
The former crime fighter said that if given another chance to serve in his former capacity, he would readily accept, although certain conditions would have to be met.
Smith is presently awaiting the ruling of the court on an appeal by the Police on his reinstatement.
Kaieteur News caught up with Smith, and he willingly agreed to an interview.
He first expressed his pleasure at the decision of the court to reinstate him after three years.
Smith was one of the founding members of the Target Special Squad (Black Clothes), which was formed in 1996 under then Commissioner Laurie Lewis to confront armed criminals, who at the time were wreaking havoc in the society.
Following the elimination of four of the five prison escapees as well as some of their confederates, Smith left Guyana to attend the funeral of his mother in Canada.
He extended his stay by one week and subsequently covered himself with sick leave to that effect, although he was still due for more than 100 days of annual leave.
However, upon his return to Guyana he was issued with marching orders, after more than 25 years in the Police Force.
During his tenure as a cop, Gangsta single-handedly confronted criminals, taking two bullets in the process.
However, despite this he continued to serve fearlessly until his dismissal.
When asked if he would rejoin the Police Force as a premier crime fighter, Gangsta replied in the affirmative, stating though that any squad he is placed in has to come under the direct command of the Crime Chief.
This squad mustnt come under nobody else but the Crime Chief. And we dont want no joint operation with soldiers. We would call dem in if we need dem, but dis is a Police operation to hunt down these people. We were trained to deal with this kind of thing, Gangsta told this newspaper.
He explained that any squad formed should be staffed with operatives from the Criminal Investigations Department, so that there will be a criminal investigative capacity on the unit.
In addition, there should also be a few trained men from the Tactical Services Unit, a few experts from the Police Ballistics Department such as bomb experts as well as operatives who are familiar with several hot spots in the country.
In we time we had two old reconditioned vehicles, and now these people getting brand new vehicles. We could do with dem new vehicles with bulletproof, Smith said.
According to Smith, when the Target Special Squad was operating under Commissioners Laurie Lewis and Floyd McDonald, they were given much autonomy to operate once the job was being done to the satisfaction of the Force.
He explained that, during those days, the Target Special Squad had developed its own intelligence gathering system and did not have to wait for information from the Police Special Branch, as is currently the case.
If we had to wait on Special Branch we woulda still deh waiting, Smith reasoned.
The current unit set up by the Joint Services is said to be intelligence driven, and taking into consideration the sentiments of Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee that the Police are too defensive, the present approach has not gone down well with the man whom many regarded as a fearless cop.
They are waiting for information. They put up $50M and still dey aint get nothing. You put dat money pon a man head and we de done get he, Smith said.
I does deh pon de road and I does see de thief man dem around town, and to me like dey does frighten me more dan dem Police now, he added.
According to Smith, there are people who have information but are afraid to go to the Police.
He said that since the Target Special Squad was always on the road, the information was forthcoming, since people had the courage to confide in them.
Many of the old Target members were highly trained, having participated in Operation Tradewinds with success, among other exercises.
Fraser get shoot, Merai get shoot, I get shoot, and we still went out deh and fight de criminals. We survive fuh six years as a squad. De Force aint gat combatants now, Gangsta explained.
He said that when everyone thought that the elimination of noted criminals like Dale Moore, Mark Fraser, Shawn Brown, Romel Reman and Shawn Gittens would end the problem, underlings like Rondell Fine Man Rawlins were overlooked, and this is proving to be to the detriment of the security forces and the nation as a whole.
What the new Commissioner (Winston Felix) shoulda do was to continue de fight against de foot soldiers and prevent dese people from getting so big now; but, instead, dey lef dem and dey grow up, and look wha happening now. Dey turn professionals now. Dey get more ruthless and more cruel, Gangsta suggested.
It is widely believed that Rawlins is the mastermind of the massacres that occurred earlier this year at Lusignan and Bartica, and the Police have linked his gang to the recent attack on the East La Penitence Police Station.
If de President want fuh call me out and give me de wuk, I would do it.
But de last time we get used. When we done close dem off I personally would come off and throw back, because we woulda done prove we point, Smith told this newspaper.
No more children aint gat fuh dead, and de Police wouldnt gat fuh bar up dey station, Smith added.
Regarding the Lusignan killings, Gangsta, whose daughter was riddled with 11 bullets by a now dead Buxton gunman, told this newspaper that if it had occurred during the time of the Target Special Squad, Commissioner Laurie Lewis would have instructed them to go out there and dont come back until the perpetrators were brought to justice.
We woulda get de full power fuh tek dem out, he said.
According to Smith, the plan that involves experts from Britain training local Police may not work since, he argued, what is transpiring in Guyana is not in keeping with what obtains in that part of the world.
We gat bannas with AK-47, while dey dealing with terrorists and bombs. Nobody dont massacre people and children in England with AK-47. Dey (British) fail in Jamaica and Trinidad and gon waste time hey, Smith said.
Regarding the killing of cops, Gangsta said that this is a situation that he never thought would get so out of hand.
Yeah, dey could kill de cop, yes, but dem gat fuh dead! Whoever kill de cop, dem gon dead! he said.
Smith said, however, that the Target Special Squad had always followed the Police rules of engagement, although they have been accused of extra judicial killings.
He added that the members of the unit were cognizant of the fact that they would be placed before the courts for any killing they committed.
He believes that the longer the security forces take to eliminate the current threat, the longer the children of tomorrow will not be able to live in peace.
The Police have acknowledged that there is need for an elite Police unit, and already plans are in train to establish such a unit.
Whether Gangsta is given a chance to prove his bravery and competence will be another story.
By supererro
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 |
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SO...
NO TAKERS??? COME ON YOU GUYS, LET'S GET OUR TOWN FIXED. I'VE ALEADY RAISED ABOUT $300 TOWARDS THIS PROJECT. WHAT Y'ALL GOT?
By FOR_LINDEN
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again
on behalf of my friends they too think that the party or dance should go until the next day.. like afew years back when the kasheif and shanghi organisation hold the town week we party until like 11:30 the next day and went straight to the wash down. that wsa fun fun fun.
By ac
Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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the town day
well i must say that the town week events were good and it provided alot of fun and enterainment for all, but people come him to party alot and i think that the party should be allowed to go until.. and not being stoped early hour.
By ac
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Please post the pictures
Please post the pictures..waitingggggggggggggggggggggg to see it in a good way.
By princessp9
Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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Linden
Kezia, I agree with most things you've said except this... 'It looks like Bosai will bring the community back to the place it was, lets support them'. That is not true. That company will do what mining companies do, they will take the resources available in our town, in our country, they will get as paid as they can, and then, they will leave. Fixing Linden is up us. Those of us who have any kind of resources available to us because of the foundation given to us by our home country.
You're right, it is up to us. Those of you who live in Linden need to get it together. You need to know that its not cool to destroy your home, its not cool to piss in the streets and to throw trash in the streets, ITS JUST NOT. THIS IS YOUR TOWN. I believe we (those of us abroad and those of us in Linden) can bring our town into a 21st century, proudly.
By FOR_LINDEN
Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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It Starts with You
Now, I have been reading some of the comments posted on this site about what has not been done or what should have been done in Linden.
I do agree with some of what has been said but as a pragmatist, I dont support it all.
If we want Linden to be litter free, we have to start by not littering. If we want the community to produce well groomed and educated people, we must start with our children. If we want a successful Town Week, start by promoting our respective communities. Lets start by maintaining our historical and recreational sites.
It looks like Bosai will bring the community back to the place it was, lets support them. Bauxite is not all we have, but most of what we have and could use.
I do agree that we are missing the meaning of Town week but we all know what drives people into the community. Be good stewards Lindeners, take some pride in how you promote the community. Think about a way you can make a difference. Our community could never be perfect but we can help make it the best.
By Kezia
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FOR OUR TOWN
My fellow Lindeners, I have been to town week and as much as I love Linden (Guyana for that matter) we have work to do. The state of our town is unacceptable, PERIOD. I saw someone earlier write here about how dirty the down is etc. Its not even that our home is dirty, its that nothing is being maintained, updated, or kept from literally falling down. Mine and your parents grew up enjoying the Mackenzie Sports Club, learning to swim and keeping out of trouble by spending time in the pool at MSC. Some of us remember having spirited competition there as Mackenzie High School beat the pants off Multi on the regular (why did I have to put that in, damn that was mean). But now, the stadium is in a state of disrepair. The state of the bathrooms is deplorable, the pool is out of order and the nothing is being done about it. What we enjoyed is no longer an option for the kids in Linden now. There are a lot of things that need to be done in Linden but, one thing at a time. Let`s fix what could be the center of attraction for our town again. The lame pool party that was touted as part of the Town Week would have been the bomb had there been a working, beautiful pool in the center of town with a pretty place to chill. Instead what stands there is a dirty non-working pool, very tall grass growing around it, not to mention the unsightly MSC wall that a literal coat of paint would refurbish. So I've decided to take this on as a project, with your assistance of course. I spoke with the Regional Chairman to get some direction as to how to proceed with this and he says the Town will not turn down assistance in cleaning this up, he says the reason it is the way it is, is a financial issues. The Town has no money. He suggested I have a conversation with Dawn Kanes of the Town Council and move forward. I know I can contact her at Telecoms so that's not an issue. The question then becomes, how do we do this? The summer is coming (August Holidays as we used to call it) and instead of seeing kids just roaming the streets with nothing to do or getting themselves into any kid of trouble, I would like to repair MSC, Pool and all. I'll start with this, would you all that post on here be willing to donate US$20 toward first painting that MSC wall that has not EVER been painted since its first creation? If you're interested please post here, I have 6 people waiting to do the work and a responsible person in Guyana who will be fully accountable with the money. I`ll give you all the details if you`re interested. Please let me know, I've put $100 of my own money aside for this.
The Breakdown
Labor -6 Painters, $5,000 per day = $60,000
Paint 20 Gallons - $60,000
Equipment (Rollers, Brushes, Ladders etc.) - $20,000
Total - $140,000
Total in US Dollars, a mere $700.00
By FOR_LINDEN
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Linden's Queen
Linden Town Queen ---Janella Harry - Miss Amelia's Ward
Runner up---Keziah Roberts - Miss Retrieve
More Info will be on This web site shortly.
By mic james
Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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Linden Queen
Linden Town Queen ---Janella Harry - Miss Amelia's Ward
Runner up---Keziah Roberts - Miss Retrieve
More Info will be on This web site shortly.
By mic james
Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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Mockery of Law and order
It is very disturbing that law enforcement in Guyana is being mocked so blatantly! Assaults on the Bartica Police Station, Police Headquarters and most recently East La Penitence Police station. What is even more disturbing, a headless body was planted in the vicinity of headquarters and nobody saw or hear anything. The Police are saying they are not afraid, but they are behaving like they are.
I don't want to believe that the entire police force is compromised here, I sincerely hope not. I also hope that their inaction is not to protect government ministers or their children. Somethings are not adding, they know ballistics and still can't get any leads.
It is evident from what happened to kalamadeen that the business community are compromised too. The way this guy was killed is to make a statement.
Is Roger Khan still leading the Charge from inside a jail cell, or is it someone else who is now the kingpin? Whoever it is, they have successfully placeed the Guyana Police Force on STANDSTILL!
By supererro
Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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Who won Town Day
Can someone please tell me who won Miss Town Day
By Black Ice
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THE RISING OF TRUTH CRUSHED TO EARTH
Cops were aware Davendra Persaud killing was drug-related source, but had no evidence
In the backdrop of allegations in a US court that drug-indicted businessman Roger Khan had ordered the slaying of cyclist Davendra Persaud, a police source here says they were aware that the killing was related to narcotics but had no evidence.
Local police had previously never mentioned a drug tie during the investigation of Persauds murder back in 2004, but police sources said such information was available to investigators from the beginning. Persauds execution, like many others in recent years, has gone unsolved by the police and with very little information on the motive behind it.
At the time of Persauds killing, Khan was yet to publicly declare himself a crime fighter as he did in mid-2006, but he was suspected to be involved in drug trafficking and had already faced the courts over having in his possession a cache of arms and ammunition in 2002.
Speaking to Stabroek News on Friday, a police officer who was close to the investigation at the time, but has since been elevated in rank, said days after Persauds murder at Palm Court, investigators had received reports that Khan was behind the shooting. But like all other things we had no evidence so there was little we could do, the officer who spoke under condition of strict anonymity said. It is unclear if Khan was ever questioned in the investigation.
The police source told Stabroek News that from the outset police suspected drugs were involved in the execution of Persaud, who had been previously charged here with drug trafficking. The talk around was that he did not pay his dues so he was gunned down. you know how the drugs men behave, if you dont pay up they take you out, the police officer said.
Asked whether they knew Persaud was a cooperating witness for the US at the time, the officer said no, but reasoned that his superiors might have been aware.
There were things then I did not know and people do not tell you everything sometimes, the officer said, acknowledging that the US could have been using Persaud without informing local law enforcement.
In one of the most shocking revelations since Khans indictment on drug-smuggling charges, the US government last Thursday alleged that he had ordered the executions of Persaud, as well as several of its informants and other drug dealers. The US did not name the informants, who were described as cooperating witnesses, but sources said they might have been the five men killed on Diwali night on Robb Street in 2002. The revelations were made in the Eastern District Court of New York after Khans attorneys got hold of a sealed confidential document, which contained an interview between Persaud and the US government in relation to a narcotics case against another Guyanese Delven Adams, who was allegedly a member of Khans organisation.
In a letter dated April 24, and addressed to Justice Dora Irizarry, US Attorney Benton Campbell said he was apprising the court of an issue that the government will raise at a status conference. Campbell said that as part of Khans lawyers opposition to the US governments motion for an anonymous jury, they attached several exhibits. One of these was a report from the US Customs Service, now Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), of an interview with Persaud. Campbell said this report was an official and confidential internal ICE document, used for investigative purposes, that was disclosed by the government to defence counsel at trial in a case against Adams and others.
Impeach
Adams was busted in the US with drugs in 2004. According to Campbell, the report and some other material were disclosed to defence counsel in that trial pursuant to Rule 806 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, because it could be used to impeach Persaud, whose statements were admitted as co-conspirator statements through other witnesses. Campbell said the US government satisfying its obligations, however, did not entitle defendants to file or otherwise disseminate that material outside the litigation. He argued that in the Adams trial, the government had serious concerns about witness safety, in large part because Persauds testimony as well as testimony from 3,500 material witnesses implicated various individuals in Khans organisation.
However, Campbell alleged that Persaud, who was a co-conspirator of Khan, the Adams trial defendants, and the governments cooperating witnesses in the Adams case, was gunned down in Guyana on Khans orders, as Khan perceived that Persaud was cooperating with the US government. In an effort to protect witnesses, Judge Frederic Block ordered the defence attorneys in that case not to disseminate (information on the 3,500 material witnesses) to anyone other than their clients. Unfortunately, Judge Blocks order was violated as defence counsel in this case has possession of this Customs report. The government did not provide this report to defence counsel in this case, and it was only disseminated in the Adams case, Campbell wrote to the judge. He said the US government was writing to inform the court of the issue, and to request the court to inquire of Khans lawyers at the next status conference: how, from whom, and when they obtained the report. The government also wanted to know whether they have obtained any of the statements of the 3,500 material witnesses disseminated at the Adams trial; and whether they had disseminated any of this to anyone else. We further request that the court order the prompt return to the government of any such material in the defences possession including all copies they have made of such material, Campbell requested.
He said while Khans lawyers might not have been aware of Judge Blocks order, this inquiry was important not only because a court order was violated, but because the potential danger to witnesses and their families in this case could not be overstated. It is imperative that the government has complete knowledge of the full scope of the information disseminated about its prior witnesses, so as to take necessary safety precautions, Campbell stated.
Khans lead attorney, Robert Simels in a response, told the court that the documents were obtained from the clerks office on March 31, this year. Simels said following the court appearance in this case his associate requested an opportunity to obtain a copy of the criminal complaint against an individual named Brentnoll Hooper in the file entitled US vs. Adams.
Fifteen times
Khan is facing 18 charges for conspiring to import cocaine into the US. He had declared himself back in 2006, before he was arrested by US law enforcement officials, as a crime fighter who used his own resources to hunt down criminals. According to one of the several statements, he had issued while on the run from local lawmen, Khan revealed that he employed a network of ex-convicts and former policemen to do his work.
Persaud was gunned down at Palm Court in October 2004. He was shot close to 15 times, in what appeared to be an organised hit, orchestrated by a gang of four.
Persaud had been charged locally in relation to drugs and later became an informant for the US government. Reports were that four men, two of whom were wearing masks, turned up at the Main Street bar in a white Toyota Sprinter car registration number PJJ 1767 a little before 10 pm. Two men remained in the car, another stood guard at the gate, while one went up to Persaud and shot him. The gunman reportedly stood over him and opened fire at close range. Police had arrested a number of persons for questioning, but they were all released.
VG: How strange this country of ours have become. The police can tell which guns shells comes from by just examining them, but cannot use the make, model and tag of motor vehicle to trace it back to those who use it in a crime. How convenient.
By victoriaguy
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dry bones
i am requesting you to forward some good malayalam messages/SERMONS from EZEKIEL CHAPTER-37.
SIBU
By thecoverage
Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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IF YOU ARE BLACK AND DUMB FINE, OTHERWISE WATCH OUT
Oliver Hinckson is the second African Guyanese novelist to be persecuted by the PPP regime. The PPP seem to have a phobic aversion to African Guyanese who exhibit intellectual independence. Their marginalization of Senior Magistrate Holder is another case in point.
By victoriaguy
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TUC President speak out!
GTUC president appeals to youth to take up the mantle
union leaders divided on issues, not members
- Burton
The first ever female president of the Guyana Trades Union Congress, Gillian Burton, in her inaugural May Day address, has called on the youths of the workforce to take up the mantle of the struggle towards a brighter future.
She stressed that the trade union movement was in urgent need of an influx of new leadership.
According to Burton, who addressed the GTUC rally on Thursday, the workers were not divided on issues that faced them such as increased cost of living and meager wages; rather, it was the current leadership of the unions which lacked the fervor and intent.
Burton appealed to the youth of the workforce, whom she noted accounts for the greater percentage of the workers of this country, to live the dreams of Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow and fight fearlessly the oppressors of their future.
She lamented that the economic situation in the country was beyond unbearable. The daily existence of the working class citizen has become zero rated just as some of the food itemsEveryday more workers are being sent on the bread lineRetrenchment and early retirement has replaced promotions and | | | | |
