Fracas at Inter- Zone sports at Albion leaves 4 students arrested

Oct 23, 2011 News

….GTU President protests police action

The Inter- Zone (Branch) Athletic Sports came to a grinding halt at the Albion Sports Complex Ground Friday afternoon after a fracas between police and attendees to the sports erupted just after 17:00 hrs.
Four male students from the Upper Corentyne area, who were athletes at the sports were heading out of the area. They were pulled out of a minibus by the police officers who identified them as persons who were involved in a fight earlier in the ground. The fight resulted in one person sustaining a serious head injury.
Speaking from the Rose Hall Town Police Outpost on Friday evening, President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Colin Bynoe, was irate over the entire matter. He was of the view that the police acted harshly towards the four young men.
He had just left Georgetown for his home on the Corentyne when the matter was brought to his attention.
He said that there was a fight in the ground on Friday afternoon. A male was attacked by an unknown individual and struck in the head. He was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital in an unconscious state.
Bynoe said that the police reported that some people identified the four boys boarding the bus as the perpetrators and they (the police) pulled them off the bus and arrested them. They were then taken to the Rose Hall Town Outpost.
“The Black Clothes police turned up at the bus and just pulled out students and say they involved in murder,” he said.
Bynoe added that there were persons who were there at the sports and they identified the students to the police as people who were not involved in the fight, but the police insisted on the students’ arrest.
“What is sad is that these teachers cannot go home because they brought these students here. The police do not want to hear anything from them”, an angry Bynoe posited. The teachers had brought the students down from the Upper Corentyne area to participate in the sports.
He said that the culprit ran away from the scene, went home and returned with a change of clothes. The police held, then released him and Bynoe suspects something about this and questioned the police actions.
Bynoe said he telephoned Commander of ‘B’ Division, Steven Merai. “I called Merai and he asked me if I am telling him how to do his work. I called him to give him a brief as to what my people told me. He arrogantly hanged up the phone. I don’t understand what is going on!”
“The adult who did wrong; they didn’t detain him but he disappeared, although people identified him positively, but the police cannot say who identify these boys positively,” Bynoe related.
Bynoe added that the police at the Rose Hall Town Outpost took statements from the four students. “They telling us that the statements have to go to Whim (Police Station) and they will have to determine what will happen to the boys”.
“That is the way the police works in Guyana”.

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