Recent events review August 27th to September 2nd

Ramnarine said it was clear and safe for him to say that strict investigating procedures were breached during the period of investigation. The death of the then 19year-old Reece, a security guard, has been seen in some quarters as one of the major events in the rise of crime in the 1990s. Reece’s body was dumped from a speeding pickup vehicle in the vicinity of the Geddes Grant building (now Courts) on Main Street, Georgetown on April 9, 1993. Dr George Norton and believes that the nation should trust its leaders’ decision on the pharmaceutical bond contract. While he believes that the APNU+AFC coalition government will “pay a heavy price” for its decision, Ramjattan is asking their supporters to rationalise the tough decisions the party had to make and to determine if the opposition was in their place, whether they would have done the same, and judge them accordingly. “Well I don’t know what else I can say. I have indicated that indeed it is a sad episode and we are going to pay a heavy price for it. The whole arrangement here is, if the price is so heavy when comes the next election people remember this incident and forget all the rottenness that the PPP had done, then fine they can vote us out of government,” Ramjattan told Stabroek News yesterday. He was responding to former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran’s critique of the “soft” stance the AFC has taken on dealing with government’s $12.5M per month, sole-sourcing of a bond to businessman Lawrence Singh of Linden Holding Inc. Benn and his wife had just returned home from grocery shopping. The man then secured his premises and went around the home making checks. BurchSmith said that the reason why his client did this was because he had been receiving death threats. He said Benn and his wife were having talks about moving out from their home when the saw a dark tinted car attempting to turn on their bridge and they feared for their lives. Robert Benn