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Oct 29, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
Within a short space of time a number of men have died under strange circumstances. Mention is made of Ricardo Rodrigues, Vic Puran, Marlon Letlow and the most recent casualty, Canadian Jean Le Blanc.
I have stopped short in considering the above as “deaths due to unexplained circumstances” because all of the deaths mentioned bear a common thread. These are deaths that are in one way or another linked to the shady, gory underworld.
Rodrigues is a well known right hand man of Drugs Lord Roger Khan, so was Letlow. In fact, Letlow is known to law enforcement as a cruel and exacting extortionist when it comes to highway robbery, having been implicated in robbery and murder of miners in the interior.
So it behooves us to believe that if the drug empire, to which he was a part didn’t get him, friends of the dead miners could have had him killed in a reprisal ambush. In any case he was a marked man.
Now Le Blanc is what you will call a “rookie tourist” or so it seems, because he suspiciously happens to stop by at the same water hole as Rodrigues and at the said time the gunmen made their killer raid.
I am inclined to believe that Le Blanc was no hapless tourist touring Guyana and just happen to be in the company of a person of the likes of Rodrigues.
There is more to this story than what is at the surface, especially when you have a background check on him. Information is now surfacing that this man has a checkered career as was sourced in Canada and his visit to Guyana carries an equally bizarre story.
In recent months Guyana has carried out a series of successful drug busts involving “first time tourists” in Guyana.
Le Blanc fits the picture of one such tourist. Sadly he died with a wealth of information. On this note I would urge the Pathologist to carry out a toxicology test of his liver to ascertain the cause of death. Le Blanc was recuperating too nicely to have died so suddenly. One of those many visitor friends of his at the hospital might very well be a person of interest.
Neil  Adams

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