The day “Fineman” flew a vehicle like a plane in the skies with red ants inside

Nov 11, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

The Stabroek News’ editorial for Monday was interesting in terms of some questions the paper asked. It pontificated on the unusual occurrences whereby state institutions are visited with “terrorist” violence whenever the Government is facing a potentially life-threatening situation. The paper opines that the Government benefits from these mysterious hands of violence because they deflect from the drowning pool the Government finds itself in. Three episodes were mentioned.
One is the CLICO affair and the subsequent shooting of Maria Van Beek who was put in charge of winding up CLICO. Secondly, the Ministry of Health arson appeared on the scene to douse the fire that Ramsammy was burning in during the Simels trial. Thirdly, in the midst of the horrors of state torture, some “terrorists” came from the bush off the Linden highway and shot up some state buildings. But the Stabroek News forgot got one item in the concatenation of Steven Spielberg dramas – the “attack “on the Carifesta secretariat.
When the PNC announced its boycott of the Carifesta, there was a subsequent fire-bombing of the secretariat. Apparently some “terrorists” threw a channa bomb at the building. This particular episode was comical. I was told that the channa bomb hit the front fence, disturbed the sleep of some red ants, the type of which the security forces submerged an alleged drug suspect in a nest, and the ants went into the secretariat causing confusion in the washrooms.
No damage was done but the next day GINA screamed, “Terrorists will not derail Carifesta.” The real intention of course was to get East Indians to feel that “De Blackman is at it again.” These “terrorists” should have been in the Mexican circus which is due for a visit to Guyana. Some nasty men want to attack the Carifesta secretariat and all they could have done is to throw a channa bomb which landed on an ants’ nest?
The story of the use of violence by the PPP has a long history and I will touch on that in another essay because given these esoteric appearances of “convenient terrorists,” researchers need to go back and analyse the sixties. Is it possible that many of the killings, arsons and conflagrations that we have put down to the American-supported TUC, UF and PNC back then were really orchestrations of the PPP?
Anyway let’s get back to the Spielberg movies. So a pick-up truck came from Linden, created horrors in downtown Georgetown, shooting up the second major police station in Guyana after Eve Leary and found itself back on the Linden highway
There is a remake of a lovely Walter Matthau movie, “The Taking of Pelham, One, Two Three” with Denzel Washington in the lead. Don’t see that one. Look at the earlier version made in the seventies. Walter Matthau was excellent in that film. So some hijackers have the Pelham train under their command and at the control centre, the traffic controllers are talking to each other about how it will be possible to escape with a whole train. Matthau quietly chipped in and said, “I know.” They all turned to him with amazement pushing out of the socket of their eyes. They asked, “How?” He told them, “They’re going to fly the train to Cuba.”
How did the Toyota Tacoma get back to the Linden highway when there was a manhunt for if the very night its drivers went on a rampage shooting up the Brickdam police station and attempted to burn the High Court and Richard Ishmael Secondary School? Roadblocks would have been set up immediately after the pillage, with policemen manning them through the next day. Commonsense would tell all human beings that the description of the vehicle would have been transmitted to all police stations. When cricketer Chanderpaul shot a rank on the seawall and drove away, roadblocks were set up on the main highways with vehicle description going over the radio sets. Chanderpaul drove right into one of the roadblocks.
So what route did the Tacoma take to return to the Linden highway where it was first hijacked? It is not possible to have taken another exit except the East Bank. It couldn’t get to the East Coast. The road checks were in place. There is no other trail to Linden except through jungle at the back of South Ruimveldt. It would have been stuck in the thickness of the forests. So with police waiting for it on the East Bank, the drivers simply flew the plane over Georgetown and landed it on the Linden highway. I know the driver who flew the Tacoma. His nickname is “Fineman.”

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