Though words my Guyanese brother. Watch your back because you know Bharrat Jagdeo, Ricky Singh and the rest of the clan would be out to get you for speaking the truth!!!!!!!

If the late Sir Frank Walcott was alive today,he would be ashamed of leroy trotman and Bobby Morris.

They find it more expedient to support norman faria and migrant guyanese workers right to be given work here ahead of bajan workers than to speak out against atrocities being committed against afro guyanese by the racist indian administration of basdeo jagdeo.

Lincoln lewis is a trade union comrade and he has been speaking out for a while,yet not a word from them.

They are black stooges pure and simple.

I hope the NUPW also speaks out about this.

Let’s see what guyanese roxanne gibbs does,and her brother aubrey armstrong who wants to run to lead the opposition PNC party.

I believe the leader of the Opposition in Barbados should also make a statement and all NGOs in Barbados.

”and have been denied access to their Attorneys”

Sorry, but I cannot see this going anywhere good, methinks that the line has been crossed, such that only a very strong retraction, apology and censure of the releveant authority head will suffice.

If Jagdeo will not listen to Caricom heads on this one, the UN must intervene on a human rights basis.

If we are of Caricom, we should not and cannot afford to act like rogue states, with no constitution and no political negotiation.

My other question is, what is Jagdeo playing at? Is his economy that bad and is he losing control, such that he must seek to eliminate Opposition at all costs?

There are points in a nation’s history that define what the next ten or twenty years will be like and whether the country will be able to achieve its potential or fall short because of political malfeasance.

This is such a point.

My best wishes to the Guyana people.

Peace & Live Strong

Having monitored the media in Barbados this morning there is small mention of the arrest of three human rights activists. Bear in mind we have one who has no less a stature of Secretary General of the Caribbean Congress of Labour, Burns Bonnadie must be turning to see what the comradeship in the labour movement has come to, we already know of the impotence of the media.

Marx take the hood from over your head. Do you really know anything about PPP politics? Have yyou ever lived in Mahaicony during the sixties? Do you know about LIVING IN FEAR OF THE INDIAN MAURAUDERS WHO WERE PROVIDED WITH GUNS WHILE THE BLACK PEOPLE HAD NOTHING TO DEFEND THEMSELVES; YES GUNS PROVIDED BY JAGAN AND HIS WIFE JANET WHO HIJACKED THE PRESIDENCY OF THE NATION.THESE GUNS WERE OBTAINED FROM CUBA AND OTHER SOURCES. Take a hike and do some research I do not have to, I LIVED THROUGH IT!

Juan Gabrel, tell the people about the many times more Indian people who get run out of Linden and women raped and brutalised with bottles and the attacks on Indo – Guyanese after the PNC tried to overturn the elections results after 1992 by racist attacks on Indian businesses in Georgetown and elsewhere .Don’t forget recent massacres by organised elements in Lusignan and Bartica whose victims were overwelemningly Indo and which majority of ordinary working class blacks condemned..
Let’s not revise history with your interpettation fo things abou alledged incidents that you supposedely lived throrugh and to pander to largely black readers in Barbados. Yuh beating a dead horse….
Dwell on the positive that Indos and blacks cooperate and that their intersests are the same until organisd oppotunist elementss like Burnham played the race card…Its all in the history books …Peace…

Marx, that is your problem… you only see wrong from the other side,rather than deal with the root causes. Stop the crap about women being raped with bottles during the Mackenzie riots, the COI debunked your nonsense.
Yes, tell the folks here about ‘apaan jat’ or vote for your own comments. Tell the folks about Jagdeo telling indians supporters at babu john that the “black people who steal guns now, will not do so if you allow the PNC back in power”…. I know you will pretend that did not take place, but the press has a recording of his putrid speech.

Seems to me from the discussion here that both sides of the racial divide give as good as they get!

@Themes

Yes indeed! That is the reality of Guyana’s political equation,however, it is refusal/failure on the part of the new leaders to bridge that divide.In 1992, we thought that we had turned a new page and for the first time begin to define our society along the lines of justice and equality, how wrong.The PPP had to payback those who they perceive to be their natural enemies. Professional civil servants were cast aside for incompetent and unqualified PPP lackeys.Our foreign service was gutted of any and every non-indian senior diplomat…. these persons had to seek redress in the courts , and won.
The PPP believes that democracy begins and ends with the holding of free and fair elections every five years and no more. The building of institutions that deepen democratic norms escape this racist cabal.
Today, drug barons have carte blance in all aspects of life… their money fund the PPP and their gunmen provide the security against those who the PPP deem undesirable,and worthy of elemenation.

Marx, you dunce, here is a true and unvarnished account of what transpired yesterday in Guyana from the largest newspaper in Guyana

Benschop, Lewis and Witter thrown into Brickdam lock-ups
Keiteur News papers in Guyana July 16, 2009 | By Christopher | Filed Under News
-refuse $50,000 bail each

By Dale Andrews

A peaceful picketing exercise outside the office of the Commissioner of Police ended abruptly with the arrests of former treason accused Mark Benschop; General Secretary of the Caribbean Congress of Labour, Lincoln Lewis; and Acting General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress, Norris Witter, yesterday.
The trio was hauled off to the Brickdam Police Station shortly before midday by a group of armed ranks and subsequently placed onto the lock-ups pending charges.
Benschop, Lewis and Witter were part of a five-member demonstration, which included former Chief Magistrate Juliet Holder-Allen and Canadian Immigration Consultant, Balwant Persaud.
While the police took no action against the other two persons, Benschop, Lewis and Witter appeared to be the target in what many persons are describing as a calculated move by the police.
Police, in a press release last night, said that the men were arrested for illegal picketing, disorderly behaviour, resisting arrest and assaulting peace officer.
This newspaper was on hand outside the Commissioner’s office during the demonstration which commenced some time around 11:00 hours.
Within minutes, several ranks descended on the scene and ordered the demonstrators to remove from the location.
However, the demonstrators insisted that it was their democratic right to protest and refused to heed the request.
After several minutes of verbal confrontation during which the demonstrators insisted that they will not remove, the ranks acting on instructions, attempted to arrest them.
But the demonstrators demanded to know the reason for their arrests and the police appeared to be backing off.
A few minutes later another senior officer arrived on the scene and he issued an immediate order for the arrest of the trio.
There was some resistance as Lewis and Benschop questioned their arrests citing their right to protest peacefully.
Lewis even went into the Young Street canal and dared the police to come and arrest him.
“I will lie in this trench and y’all will have to come in and arrest me,” Lewis told the ranks.
Eventually he came out and was promptly set upon and bundled into a waiting minivan that contained Benschop and Witter.
The police then sped along Carifesta Avenue, taking the men to the Brickdam Police Station where they were booked and subsequently locked-up.
As they were heading to the lock-ups, the men stood and gave the victory sign to several reporters and cameramen who had converged on the Brickdam Police Station as news of the arrests circulated.
Yesterday’s demonstration, the second outside the office of the Commissioner within a week, occurred just minutes after Police Commissioner Henry Greene had described the trio as the ‘Three Musketeers’.
Benschop, Lewis and Witter commenced their three-man demonstration at the opening of the CARICOM Heads of Government Conference, which opened on July 2, last, at the National Cultural Centre.
They continued with demonstrations outside the Ministries of Education and Home Affairs last week and again this week.
This newspaper understands that the decision to arrest the men was reportedly hatched at the 170th Police Anniversary breakfast last week.
Attorney at law Khemraj Ramjattan, who appeared at the Brickdam Police Station on behalf of the detained men, said that the detention was uncalled for.
According to Ramjattan the officer he spoke with at the station had indicated that he would have determined whether the men would be released since he had to do further investigations.
“I told him that it is a minor offence, if indeed they committed the offence of disorderly behaviour. He’s saying that he has his job to do and he wants to complete that aspect of it before he makes a determination as to whether bail should be granted,” Ramjattan said.
According to the attorney, the trio has indicated that the conditions in the Brickdam lock-ups are atrocious.
“The persons are indicating that it is inhumane condition, it’s filthy, smelly. I told the officer that these are popular figures, public figures and they ought not to be thrown in like that but he indicated that he has to do his job,” Ramjattan said.
He pointed out that the arrested men were protesting, as is their constitutional right.
The attorney stressed that anyone is entitled to protest anywhere in a public place in Guyana.
“Like I said rights are being taken away in this country at a pace far more rapid than what happened in the Burnham regime and these are popular figures who have been carrying on a campaign for a couple of days. What’s wrong with that?” Ramjattan who is also an opposition Member of Parliament said.
He said that while he has some reservations, indications have revealed a tendency towards a dictatorship in Guyana.
Ramjattan noted that it is ironic that Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, is presiding over a police force at a time when these types of ‘atrocities’ are taking place.
“The last time I was here for something like this, it was in relation to peaceful picketing and Mr. Clement Rohee was locked up like that. Mr. Rohee was indicating that it was so wrong and unlawful. Now he’s Home Affairs Minister and he’s allowing this to happen. It’s terrible. It seems like it’s just cyclical at this time.
“It happened several years ago and today we see this happening again. Those who suffered and are now in ministerial positions are having others suffer exactly like them,” Ramjattan pointed out.
By 18:00 hours yesterday, several sympathizers assembled outside the Brickdam Police Station.
These included, Mayor Hamilton Green, Alliance for Change Leader, Raphael Trotman; PNCR leadership candidate, Dr Richard Van West-Charles; and President of the Guyana Trades Union Congress, Gillian Burton.
Trotman said that he believes that the right of any person to peacefully protest should be respected.
“The right to protest is a basic human right. We may not always respect what people are saying but we must respect their right to speak. I didn’t know that we were living in a dictatorship but these little events when coupled with all the other things that we see happening tell us that this country has become a dictatorship,” the AFC Leader said.
According to Trotman it is obvious that the government feels afraid, lashing out at anyone who tries to embarrass it.
TUC President Gillian Burton also agreed that what has happened to the three men is a transgression of the rights of citizens.
She said that the Trade Union Movement saw it coming when a Bill was taken to the National Assembly, seeking to limit the rights of workers to take industrial action.
“What has happened here is that they have decided to send a signal to people that they are serious about what they are doing,” Burton stated.
She said that it is a very sad day for trade unionism when one looks at the struggle put up by Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow and late leaders of the very political party in power including Janet and Cheddi Jagan, for the rights of citizens.
“Today, with the passing of those persons, we have seen the very political party that they had founded has now turned the guns on the workers and the trade union leaders,” the GTUC President told this newspaper, adding that the movement will stand up against further attempts to trample on the rights of citizens.
Mayor Hamilton Green said that the same people who speak about freedom of speech and the return of democracy are doing the exact opposite.
“A cardinal aspect of democracy is that people should express their concern and there are a lot of concerns in this country. A lot of discrimination is taking place in this country and the Trade Unionists and Mark Benschop and others should express their views and not be interfered with,” the Mayor said.
He said that the use of the Guyana Police Force to perpetuate the trampling of citizens rights is very unfortunate.
And Dr. Richard Van West Charles said that the arrest of Benschop, Lewis and Witter is once again a clear demonstration of the abuse of power by senior police ranks and the continued violation of people’s human rights in Guyana.
“I think that enough is enough and we have to mobilise to ensure that this government does persist in this action. And we are going to mobilize and get to that point very soon,” Dr. Charles said.
At around 19:20 hours last evening, in the midst of a noisy vigil, a police officer informed that the trio was granted bail in the sum of $50,000 each.
However, the detainees indicated that the bail is extraordinarily high and that they would rather remain in jail since they preferred to be released on their own recognaissance.

we are bracing for more action here in Guyana
these thugs in power will be confronted head on. the build up is slow and gradual but you can’t stop this train
we are moving on to freedom, total freedom and we will break the PPP chains that attempt to bind us, with or without the help of all the negroe leaders and stoll pigeons
they were hear at the Caricom heads of govt summit eating biscuits and drinking tea while Black people are suffering under the guns of PPP Crime Family & Bharrat Jagdeo and the rest of the gang of the Guyana East Indian Cocaine Confederacy

Caricom leaders need to condemn what is going on in guyana against black people. Then all illegal guyanese should be deported forthwith from all caricom sister states. We don’t want racism spreading from south america to the “caribbean”. If indians cannot get along with black people in guyana how the hell are they going to live peaceably with black people in black dominated caricom states? All of the “caribbean islands” have democratic stable governments and we intend for it to stay that way.

Anonymous 16th July 10.32 a.m
Scout, what year was that?
I really don’t remember but it was a while ago since I have not been to Guyana sor quite a while and I have no plans of going back there either. Reports I just recieve state that it is just a matter of time something BIG blows up in Guyana. For your information the last time I was in Guyana, I went as usual to the cambio next to the police station on Brickdam Street. I always went there to change money as i thought it was safe, being next to the police station, the day after I went, the cambio was robbed and someone was killed. I would sometimes depends who I’m with go by the fish shop just off Camp St or hang out with some fellows in Broad St. However, my incedent by Side Walk Cafe was even long before my last visit there. i used to stay at Cara Suite

was just at Brickdam torture house as they’ve seized some buses off the road and a negroe traffic rank Boyce 19499 threatened an Indian fella that if he keep talkin ‘we gon do you like we do Benschop’

this is the level of ignoramuses we have to deal with where they hold on to your vehicle for days after you’ve paid fines and bail
lawlessness galore

E.H. Carr, you provide some names. I said A FEW pre-1992 Ministry operatives were ignoramuses. When asked about CARICOM, they asked ;”I din know CARAMEL chocolate give way here. Is I is support freedom fighters in Africa.”.
Indo-Guyanese Ministers ? Your logic is flawed.. The essential conclusion serious analysts draw about Guyana under Burnham-Hoyte is that attempts were made to ensure Afro-Guyanese had state power on a permanent basis.We know what became of that illusion: down the garbage can with the blessing of progressive and democratic minded Guyanese of all races.
You cite “LSE, Cambridge, Columbia..” as if this is some guarantee of capable representation. My friend, most of Hitler’s’ ministers had impeccable degrees from some of Europe’s finest universities.
There are some challenges in Guyana. Which country doesn’t have them ? Their roots lie in the pre-1992 divisons.Until we recogise that, learning the lessons (and getting apologies) while moving on, we will be like trying to spin a top in mud. The neo-fascist Burnhamite dictatorship discriminated against the Indo-Guyanese population at the time among other policy follies. Its so called socialist economic policies hurt Afro-Guyanese the most. Afro Guyanese at the mines had dogs set on them for protesting..
The Foreign Ministry effectively had to apologise for all the shameful things that went on, despite the idealist independent efforts of some of the operatives.. .
We have to move ahead and work together for the national good, but no amount of shift blame, wordy fancy footwork , pandering to the largely black population of Barbados, can alter the well documented reality of that period and to derail efforts of making sure it never ever happens again. Cavalier, lazy name calling, and convienently overlooking the overall picture, won’t help.
Today, Guyana is progressing with documented economic/social achievements and good governence, including unprecendented freedom for opposition charges, benefitting Guyanese of all races……. Peace

150 years living in the same country and they can’t get along with each other; yet they want to inflict this divisiveness on Barbados. Perhaps partition may not be a bad idea.

Sargeant
This thing is so engrained in them that they can’t change. The same thing with white, they may pretend to be your friend until crunch time comes and they got to take sides and you are left in the cold. I must say indians are even worse than whites, they would smile with you and stab you in your back in cold blood, just to get along. They always project themselves as the victims

Then again from my peronal experience it seem to that the East Indian Trinidardians donot fancy much,their East Indian Guyanese bretherens.

There is so much happening in Guyana yet our media is SILENT!

‘Biscuit’ admitted to hospital, poisoning suspected

By Stabroek staff | July 17, 2009 in Local News

Murder accused David Leander also known as ‘Biscuit’ and David Zammett was yesterday admitted a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), suspected to have been poisoned and is said to be in a serious condition.

According to hospital sources, Leander was admitted at approximately 9.15 am yesterday frothing at the mouth and complaining of feeling severely unwell.
When Stabroek News visited him at his bedside in the male surgical open ward yesterday he was wearing an oxygen mask and groaning while tossing from side to side, appearing to be in unbearable pain. He seemed unable to speak and made only moaning sounds.

Leander, clad in his prison pants, was handcuffed to the bed and under heavy police guard.

Concerned and disgruntled relatives, who had gathered in their numbers at the hospital, were heard speculating about his illness.
As they constantly quarrelled among themselves about the incident, one woman was heard saying, “is she [no name] poison he.” Another kept repeating, “how people could be suh wicked.”

A cousin of the sick man who requested anonymity said she could not say what exactly had transpired except that the family was informed that Leander was suspected to have been poisoned and admitted to the GPH in a serious condition.

The relatives were at times also heard praying for the man’s recovery while others were moved to tears. “Is only the oxygen dat he teking keeping he alive right now,” one of them said.

Meanwhile, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee in a telephone interview with Stabroek News, when asked to comment on the issue said he was aware of Leander being taken to the hospital to have several tests conducted. Rohee said he did not know of any suspected poisoning. “I cannot comment on any suspected poisoning because I don’t know of that. I am still waiting the results of the tests,” the Home Affairs Minister said. “Beyond that I cannot say anything.”

Leander of Vigilance, East Coast Demerara (ECD) became known to the public when on November 8, 2007 he was charged with the murders of Satyadeow ‘Sash’ Sawh, his brother Rajpat Sawh, his sister Phulmattie Persaud and his security guard Curtis Robinson on April 22 at La Bonne Intention (LBI), ECD.
Magistrate Yohhannseh Cave on Monday ruled an oral statement purportedly made by Leander inadmissible in the preliminary inquiry (PI).

Leander was captured during a joint services operation in Buxton that resulted in the deaths of Noel ‘Baby’ James who had recently been released from prison after serving a sentence for larceny and Orlando Andrews called ‘Bullet’ or ‘Jeffrey’ of Buxton who was wanted in connection with a number of murders.

When Leander first appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, he had visible injuries about his body and could hardly walk. His attorney had said that he was tortured by police while in custody. He was later admitted to the Georgetown Hospital following an order by Justice Jainarayan Singh Jr. These allegations were again presented before Magistrate Cave when the PI commenced at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.

prisoners beat and kill prisoners in Guyana on a regular basis so they can definitely poison one

Guyana does not have a government, it is being run by an ethnocracy. They want to reduce the amount of blacks in the public service but ignore the commercial, agricultural and private sector where Indians have dominated throughout the 28 nyears of PNC governnance.

What the Governance of Badseo Panday in Trinidad and Tobago , the Governance of Fiji, and the Governance of Guyana under Bharrat Jagdeo has proven, is that it is dangerous for blacks when Indians of the kinds of dispositions of those involved in these theatres, get their hands on power. They are incapable of jettisoning the cultural baggage of caste that has been passed down to them from generation to generation. They should not be making decisions on the lives and well being of those they perceive as being born from the bottom of the feet of their God.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, these guyanese need to be declared political refugees and denied entry into Barbados. We are pussy-footing around with the enemy and we will soon see our mistake. Mr P.M, you are too much of a gentleman, it seems your bark is much worse than your bite.