If PNCR believes Vaughn’s testimony, then Waddell was a criminal

Aug 02, 2009 News

– Donald Ramotar

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party, Donald Ramotar, says that if the People’s National Congress Reform believes the testimony of the witness in the Robert Simels trial in the US, then the party must believe that Ronald Waddell was a criminal linked to the Buxton gang.
According to the witness, Selwyn Vaughn, Waddell, the former talk show host, was criticising Shaheed Roger Khan and was connected to the infamous Buxton Gang of Escapees and this was the reason for his demise.
The PPP General Secretary also questioned why the party was not interested in who shot and killed Former Minister of Agriculture, Satyadeow Sawh.

PPP's General Secretary Donald Ramotar

Sawh was shot dead three months after the gunning down of Waddell.
Ramotar was responding to the picketing exercise held outside of Parliament on Thursday after the PNCR leader, Robert Corbin, threw down the law volumes in Parliament.
Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran, at the time had ruled against a move by Robert Corbin to have a motion debated to call on Interpol to come to Guyana and investigate the allegations being revealed in a US Court.
Ramkarran told Corbin that the grounds for his seeking to adjourn the day’s business and deal with another matter did not meet the criteria. It was not urgent and more so, was based on newspaper articles among others.
This angered Corbin who toppled the law volumes before him saying that “if a matter of this gravity is not urgent for this country these laws of Guyana mean absolutely nothing in this country.”
He subsequently told media operatives that the laws now mean absolutely nothing with the President himself breaching the Constitution.
“What sense do those laws mean when a government refuses to accept and abide by the law?”
“Who kill Waddell, ask Ramsammy…Who kill Biscuit? and Cocaine government must go,” were among some of the many chants that could be heard echoing during the action that ensued.
Ronald Waddell was riddled in front of his Subryanville, Georgetown, Guyana residence on January 30, 2006.
Vaughn, in his court testimony, said that he knows what happened because he was there in a Burgundy diesel Toyota AT 192 motorcar when four other named members of the squad turned up and shot Waddell.
Vaughn claimed that he was the lookout man who was tracking Waddell and that he called Roger Khan on his cell phone that night and reported that Waddell had left his residence and that his car was idling on the roadway.
Within minutes, four members of the phantom squad, all former members of the Guyana Police Force, turned up and shot Waddell.
Reports said he was leaving home and was in the driver’s seat of the car, between 19:30 h and 20:00 hours, when two men walked up and opened fire, raking him and the vehicle with bullets.
Persons, who said they heard the rapid shooting, looked around and saw flashing bursts of fire from the guns before the killers fled.
The men were apparently in a car on the southern side of the road not far from where Waddell lived and closed in on him as he left the yard for his car.
Waddell was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, after being rushed to the Accident and Emergency Unit.