East Canje residents plead to Government for electricity

Dec 11, 2012 News

…three robberies committed within a 100-metre radius

Residents of Betsy Ground, East Canje, are once again calling on the relevant authorities to quickly fix the street lights in some sections in the area. An out of control speeding beverage truck broke one of the lamp posts in half in early August. The accident plunged sections of the village into darkness. For over four months the post cannot be replaced.
That section of the village continues to be in the dark making it easy picking for criminals. During the past months three robberies and one case of attempted robbery were committed in the area within a 100-metre radius.
On October 3, businessman Maurice Sookraj, had his business premises broken into by a known character. This was the sixth time that Sookraj’s business place and home had been robbed. He fired three shots at the bandit who managed to escape leaving his cap and his house breaking implements behind.
On Friday October 19, four masked and armed bandits dressed in black entered the business premises of S. Baljit and Sons. This business which is operated by Rajbali and his family, was robbed of cash, jewelry and other materials. The bandits escaped.
On Sunday, three bandits were injured in a gun battle with police after a failed robbery attempt on Guysuco Field Foreman, Rajesh Parsram and his family. The three were Deonarine Seecharran called Popcorn, 20; Zafir Abdul, 22; and Keshwar Narrinarine, 30. A fourth man said to be the driver of the escape vehicle was also arrested.
Numerous reports have been made to all the relevant authorities including GPL officials, the Neighbourhood Democratic Council, The Regional Administration and the government, but all to no avail. No one at GPL or the Regional administration knows when the situation will be rectified.
In the meanwhile the three bandits who were shot and wounded during a shootout with police in East Canje, Berbice on Sunday morning following a foiled robbery at the home of 78 -year -old remigrant Guyanese Nankumarie Sookhoo and her son- in- law Guysuco Field Foreman Rajesh Parsram are all well known characters.
In June, Seecharran who seems to be the ring leader, was among a gang of four charged with armed robbery committed on a Cumberland, East Canje resident. In excess of $1.8 million in cash and jewelry were stolen on that occasion. They were initially refused bail, but were subsequently granted bail in the sum of $600,000.
According to the victims of that robbery the men were armed with AK47 rifles. The men were also picked up by a getaway car from which they switched into another car. The men were followed and captured at Seecharran’s residence at Edinburgh.
The three wounded bandits are now patients in the Georgetown Public Hospital.
The police initially recovered a number of shotgun pellets from the residence of Parasram and a shotgun barrel along with an empty 12-gauge shotgun casing at the cemetery. They subsequently recovered the rest of the shotgun in the cemetery.
A fourth man, Parmanand Joseph of Johns, Corentyne, Berbice who was the alleged driver of the getaway vehicle-HC 1390 was intercepted in the area and is in custody.

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