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Guyana, Jamaica crime situation shares similarities — Corbin

May 31, 2010 News

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Robert Corbin, is of the opinion that “Murder Incorporated” which he said was initiated by the infamous “Phantom Squad” as guns for hire still exists in Guyana today.

Corbin pointed to the headlines in the dailies, among them the recent shooting on Camp Street where the family of Dexter Collins believes that the man may have had a contract out on him.

He also pointed to the accident on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway where the family insists that the dead man was murdered.

The businessman, who was recently gunned down on Water Street, and the Guyana Cricket Board Executive who was doused with acid recently, among others, were also headlines that Corbin directed attention to.

“People are still being murdered,” according to Corbin, positing that contract murders apparently are still the order of the day.

He said that the failure of the administration to demonstrate the seriousness of getting to the root of the matter gives the impression that it could be condoned.

As it relates to the investigation into Roger Khan’s operations and the drug trade in Guyana, Corbin said that not because Khan is incarcerated in the US, that the trade is over.

According to Corbin, someone will replace Khan at the helm of the drug trade in Guyana.

Meanwhile, Corbin also told media operatives that the current fiasco in Jamaica, where dozens of people have been killed as the security forces there hunt for alleged drug king pin, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, has great significance for Guyana.

He said too that this is significant, “particularly for those who until now feel comfortable with the PPP/C administration being in bed with convicted drug lord, Roger Khan.”

He explained that what is significant in the Jamaica scenario is the association of Coke with the ruling Party, “to the extent that the Prime Minister was eventually forced to admit authorising the hiring of a legal firm to lobby against his extradition, demonstrating how dangerous it is for any Government to associate with the drug underworld.”

Corbin posited that the procrastination of the government, because of its involvement, has led to significant loss of lives of innocent Jamaicans, damage to its infrastructure and more serious damage to its reputation as a CARICOM country.

According to Corbin, the situation in Guyana is not very different from that of Jamaica, having regard to the “Phantom Squad” and the Government’s involvement with convicted drug lord, Roger Khan.

Corbin stressed that in a paid advertisement published in a Guyana newspaper, Khan confessed to being head of the “phantom gang” and claimed he was working in close association with the Jagdeo administration.

“To date, this has never been denied…Instead, the then notorious Minister of Home Affairs, Ronald Gajraj, who was fingered as the link between the Government and the ‘Phantom Squad’, stood defiantly in the National Assembly of the Parliament and proclaimed that he did what he had to do and would do it all over again.”

Corbin added also that the PPP/C Administration continues to defy all calls for an investigation. “Their recent rebuff of the United Nations Human Rights Council, (UNHRC) calls for an independent investigation into the “phantom squad”, with involvement of international advisers, should put the United Nations on notice that they are dealing with a rogue regime…No amount of distraction with environmental issues or with so called prestigious awards will purge Guyana from the stains of the murder of over two hundred citizens.”

The Opposition Leader said that unless and until that International Inquiry is held, “the Jagdeo regime will remain indicted…Guyanese must not give up the struggle, therefore, even if it takes as long as it took to bring former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, to justice before the Court of The Hague or for former President Pinochet to account to the people of Chile.”

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