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‘Fine Man’ continues to elude Joint Services

Jun 20, 2008 News

– Dr. Luncheon

Secretary to the Defence Board, Dr Roger Luncheon, says that he is confident that Guyana’s most wanted man Rondell ‘Fine-Man’ Rawlins was is in Region Ten but could not definitively give a location at this time.
Dr Luncheon was speaking to media operatives at the Office of the President during his weekly post Cabinet briefing.
He added that Rawlins was spotted in the region. “He has been there and there is no doubt in our minds that he was there recently… Precisely where he is right now is the subject of hundreds of Joint Services members.”
Dr Luncheon said that no one can say where the elusive wanted man is.
He also said that there may not be more than three remaining members of the elusive gang currently being sought after by Joint Services in the Ituni area.
According to Dr Luncheon, the Joint Services have remained tightlipped about the operation given the fact that the operation was still ongoing and until it was concluded then there should be an official press briefing to clarify and end speculations.
“I do not support going to press in the context of unfinished business…The region saga is not over.”
He also noted that speculations that the wanted men were starving were inaccurate given the evidence presented when Cecil Ramcharran (Uncle Willie) and Robin Chung (Chung Boy) were slain.
A senior Joint Services officer, who did not wish to be named, had told this newspaper, “If you look at a map of the area you will see what they have to go through to escape. It is jungle and there is no other activity in that part of the country… It is a matter of survival (for them).”
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee had also told this newspaper that “They (the bandits) are without food, without clothing, and no communication. The Joint Services are better trained and equipped to deal with this kind of terrain. They are on a survival run. The odds are that they will not survive.”
A police photo of what was confiscated when Uncle Willie and Chung Boy were shot indicated that the men had food and clothing in their possession, contradicting the earlier reports. There was also the evidence of the teenager who was recently held and who admitted to being part of the gang.
According to reports, when the 14-year-old was found he was on the brink of starvation.
Ranks from the Joint Services recently swooped down on the gang at their hideout some 300 miles up the Berbice River at Christmas falls.
During the confrontation, 17-year-old Otis Fiffee called ‘Mud Up’ was killed while the ranks believe that they wounded others.
Subsequently the Joint Services shot and killed Ramcharran and Chung who had escaped the cordon and had managed to cross the Berbice River moving away from Kwakwani.
The most recent sighting of the hunted was on Monday when the gang, who managed to slip through a cordon at Christmas Falls, hijacked and robbed the occupants of a minibus at Aroaima then forced the driver to take them to another location.
Hours later the Joint Services found the bus near the Unamco site in the Upper Berbice River area. The driver was unharmed.
A police release had reported that at about 04:30hrs on Monday, a number of armed men stopped a minibus on the Aroaima trail.
At the time, the vehicle was heading to Linden with several passengers.

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