Hot on the heels of a prisoner escaping from the Georgetown Public Hospital on Tuesday, another one has fled, this time from the New Amsterdam prison.
Troy Otto, 25, of 42 Swamp Street, Pouderoyen escaped from the prison some time between 4 am and 5.30 am yesterday after forcing apart the steel bars on the northern window of his cell and jumping into the prison yard.
Director of Prisons Dale Erskine told Stabroek News yesterday that Otto was discovered missing when a prison officer went to check on the inmates in the cell that Otto shared with two other prisoners. Erskine said a search was then launched for the man but he was not found. Otto was serving a three-year sentence for trafficking in narcotics as well as a two-year sentence for throwing a corrosive substance at someone.
The window in Otto’s cell faced the back of the prison and he must have made his exit through the back, Erskine said.
When asked how the man could have passed the security barriers, which include a high fence and prison officers who should have been on duty, Erskine said that investigations have already begun to determine how that could have occurred.
The prison director also said “sufficient officers” were supposed to be on duty at the time of the man’s escape.
Meanwhile, Erskine also told Stabroek News that there has been no further word on Joel Fraser, called Quincy London, who escaped from Ward B2 of the Georgetown Public Hospital sometime during the wee hours of Tuesday.
These two escapes are the latest in a long line, which have occurred while prisoners were both out and in prison cells. Quite a few have occurred while prisoners were being taken back to prison after making court appearances.
yall need to leave DALE ALONE,LET THE ONES WHO R AT THE PRISONS GET THE BLAME,DALE DONT WORK IN THE PRISON,HE IS IN OFFICE,DALE PLEASE STAY AND TALK TO YOUR JUNIORS,THEY NEED PULLING UP,U R NOT AT FAULT.Y DONT YALL BALME D GOVT.AND D BEAT GOES ON.IF A PRISONER ESCAPES FROM BRICKDAM LOCK UPS,IS DALE AT FAULT,NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.YALL PEOPLE IN GT NEEDS TO GET A GRIP OF YALL SELF,AND LEAVE D POOR BLACKMAN ALONE,SHUCKS MAN.BLAME BLAME BLAME.DONT BLAME D MAN.
Is like when things go really really wrong they blame the Prez…Right? Like prisoners escaping too much now…Dale is like de Prezz of de prison…So we say…De buck stop wid de Prezz……Just like de bucks stop wid Dale….All we are saying is for Dale to not come to press to say he dont know how this is happening….Dale—You—Me and every body know how and why this is happening….Prison guards ( watchmen & watch women ) are on the take….like –taking bribes….bribes and mo bribes and its Dale who supposed to look into this from the very first escape……I understand your frustration Tweety….but you have to understand ours too….thanks and do take care….maybe dem need–evileyes–to watchman dem criminals ehehehehehe
tweetybird, it passes from the top to the bottom. he should get off his tail, give orders to his people at the bottom, if they don’t adhere, fire them.
i hereby call on the resignation of mr. dale erskine too much escaping being done on your watch son, you gots to go.
This is an on. Some readers who blame. Mr erskine did any of you ever blame the government. To steel the taxs payers money. An shoot up gun
huh?
Those are the “types of criminals” that will escape, with enough “ill gains” to pay for their illegal exit——And there will never be a shortage of those who wants to take—COM LITE MONIE.
Ya al supose to geh me, me na wan fu taak dee same ting, me seh 2 days ago….
y worry it a norm . like all the ills that as become apart of the modern guyana society. it just a reflection of how things are . single out presioner escaping and call for people to resign is not going to happen . after all the servant takes lead from his master.this is guyana accuontability is not a word in administrators vocab.mediocrity is that what we are fed and that wat we accept.
and as for pay all know wat it is b4 joinng just like the politician ,but they living high live and the servant want bread to eat. so he fellow the master
Here we go again —the soap opera continues . Maybe they let him go so he can be “famous ” –so the JF can track and take him down for another REWARD . I hope the Govt have money in their coffers to pay .
Its OK to call for Erskine’s head on a platter. Logically – the ‘boss’ has to take responsibility fr the failures of his/her subordinates, but in the current Guyana things surely most times go against the logical.
I agree that in most cases the remuneration does not equal the demands of the jobs, but that shouldn’t be the excuse for poor performance. It seems that incompetence is a qualification for promotions in this civil service given the amount of calls for the resignations/firings of so many civil servants for poor performance. To name a few Gir (The airport guy) Rohee, Luncheon. The thing is – after these people leave – will their successors (picked from a pool of those available) be able to do any better?