Blocked vehicles, gun taken from guard
Bandits struck at Eccles, East Bank Demerara yesterday, robbing a Bakewell bakery employee of $1.8M and grabbing the gun of a guard.
In a chilling and well-planned operation, five gunmen held up Chrishandatt Deolall and Paul Hector after blocking their vehicles. The five men all had guns and three were reportedly outfitted in dark blue uniforms.
The police said that Deolall was driving PKK 923 and Hector, an armed security guard attached to an unnamed private security service, was driving PKK 6815. On reaching Eccles Old Road around 12.20 pm, a vehicle with the five gunmen drove up and blocked the path of the other two vehicles.
The police said that five men then exited and held the victims at gunpoint. They took a .38 revolver with seven rounds from Hector and the bag with $1.8M from Deolall’s vehicle after breaking the right side front window. The police said the bandits then escaped.
The attack bore similarities to a failed one on the Ogle airstrip road two weeks ago. Then, gunmen ambushed a vehicle which was leaving the airstrip.
The driver did not stop even though sustaining a gunshot wound and managed to make it to the Sparendaam police station. The gunmen fled.
i personally believe crime is out of control in guyana and immediate steps need to be taken for example the army should be more involved as the police really need some help as businesses will soon close and the crime will get worse as jobs would be really hard to get .
I do agree that crime is out of control, but it would take more than the army to fix it.
A change is business practise will go a long way.
1. Stop taking cash payments from vendors, or have the vendor make direct deposits to the financial institution.
2. Stop the cash payoll. Use direct deposit, or check payments.
This is the only way to cut down on these types of crime.It’s a win win situation for everyone involved.
This situation has gone bad now. I think that more police/soldier should be patrolling. I saw on BBC recently some countries installed surveillance camera on prominent crime areas, maybe that could be another measure, if we can afford it.
redindian voilent crimes is already out of control in guyana, what guyana needs is a complete overhaul of the police,GOG
This is way out of control now. It seems like this has become the norm of the day. Almost everyday you open the paper to read, you read about some crime being committed. I wonder when will it ever end. Probably in the next life time. Guyana really needs a turn around. things are getting from bad to worst and this is not good for the country at all.
june, I was actually thinking about cameras earlier, but then I remembered it was Guyana. Not even the criminals, regular people would thief the cameras and install it in they house as decorations. Or some junkie might thief them and sell them for a hundred dollars or so.
The solution for the crime situation is simple: a brain. Guyana needs someone with a brain. Even ah little bit ah brain will do.
I’m guessing Guyana has about 5,000+ GDF soldiers (can someone please state the correct amount) and maybe about 8,000+ police officers. Why aren’t the majority of these soldiers and police patrolling the streets? Eccles is right next to Agricola. In case some of you don’t know about Agricola, it’s one of the havens for the criminal elements in Guyana. Since this community has been a hotbed of criminal activities and since it’s one of the places where criminals have sprung from, why hasn’t the joint services been patrolling these areas? How hard would it be to bring the thousands of GDF and thousands of GPF together, and form units which can cover parts of the city? Georgetown is a very small place and it doesn’t have that many people. All they have to do is split the city up into grids and place a specific amount of GDF/GPF in those little blocks to patrol and respond to reports. And if something does happen, there would be back up ranks in the other two blocks to help out. Of course, some blocks would have less ranks than others. But then again, that might be crazy since a few years ago the GDF set up an army base in Buxton and had fineman and his boys sneaking in and out right under their noses. Also, there were reports that some of the soldiers were playing football with the criminals. Lol. Talk about defending Guyana.
Now back to topic: let’s say you split one block up into an area from Meadow Bank to Eccles. Can we say that 10 GDF and 10 GPF (or less) can’t successfully patrol that little area? Someone might come out and say that they don’t have that many troops. Well, go to any police station and you’re bound to see at least 5 of them sitting around. Then go to Ayanganna and you’ll see loads of army ranks there doing…I have no idea what they do there, but they are there.
Guyanese are being robbed, murdered, maimed and chased out of Guyana. They are forced to run to places like Barbados where they’re being treated like dogs; they’re getting kicked-around and even murdered. It’s time for the Govt. to wake up.
Moderator, thanks for cutting out the sweetest part of my post. :)
that’s a very wise idea i agree