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Crime Chief unable to say if ‘terror’ suspects were under surveillance

Nov 13, 2009 News

By Michael Jordan
Although they were charged for fire-bombing the Ministry of Health building in Brickdam, it appears that local intelligence operatives failed to keep tabs on the activities of “terror suspects” Keith Ferrier and Clayton Westford.
Police and government officials have stated that Ferrier, in particular, was part of a group that was linked to “domestic terrorism.” The officials even claim to have information on the identity of the “intellectual authors and planners,” who are reportedly overseas.
Police have now implicated Ferrier and five other men in the November 9, ‘channa bomb’ attacks on the High Court and the Richard Ishmael Secondary School; the brazen attacks on the Brickdam Police Station and the East Ruimveldt Police Outpost and the murder of Wodette Roberts, whose bound body was found
at Dora, after he and two others were abducted by heavily-armed gunmen.
Police allege that the gang had also inflicted a beating on Clayton Westford after he had failed to join them in their activities. They also said that wanted men Kurt Thierens called ‘Glasses’, and Colin Jones, called ‘Bonny’ participated in this recent attack. Thierens and Jones mysteriously escaped from the Providence Police Station while being detained there in connection with the Health Ministry fire. But what police have not fully explained is how three high-profile ‘terror suspects’ such as Thierens, Westford and Ferrier could have allegedly met and carried out this operation without intelligence operatives here getting wind of their plot.
Crime Chief Seelall Persaud was unable to say whether the men were under surveillance, when Kaieteur News contacted him yesterday.
“I would not be able to definitively answer that. Surveillance is done by the Guyana Police Force and other law enforcement agencies.” The Crime Chief said that the Force lacked the manpower to keep suspects under surveillance all the time. “We would never be able to do that.”
On Wednesday, Ferrier’s attorney, Mortimer Coddett, told Kaieteur News that he is unaware of his client’s whereabouts. According to Coddett, he has been trying without success to contact Ferrier since he was granted bail last August.
A police bulletin identified the other suspects as Charles Clarke called ‘Pumpkin or ‘Perkin’, Shawn Benn and Trevor Archer. Yesterday, the man referred to as Trevor Archer in the wanted bulletin issued by the police turned himself in, accompanied by a lawyer. The man’s name was later determined to be Troy Ellis.

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