Recent events review Saturday November 26 to Friday December 2

tail section of a parked Fly Jamaica plane was knocked off by a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) craft as it was pulling into the apron yesterday morning. No one was injured and all passengers onboard the flight were able to leave for their respective destinations with their luggage. However, outgoing CAL and Fly Jamaica flights were cancelled as a result of the incident. The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has launched an investigation into the incident, while CAL is also conducting its own separate probe. CAL’s team out of Trinidad arrived in Guyana yesterday and started gathering its information. “GCAA is investigating the incident and will submit a report,” Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson told Stabroek News.

Number 60 man chopped to death

Dawain Prince

same day after his condition worsened. He died at the GPH around 8 pm on Monday while admitted as a patient in the Intensive Care Unit. Mohamed Haniff, the driver of the hire car that hit Prince, is in police custody. Stabroek News was told that Prince had just exited a school bus and was making his way across the road using the pedestrian crossing when he was stuck down by the car, which was reported to have been speeding. of Understanding (MoU) for the EUfunded Seaport Cooperation Project (SEACOP) which aims at maritime trafficking and particularly the cocaine trade. The two-year project, budgeted at €3 million will train and equip inter-agency units to identify, search and interdict all forms of maritime trafficking. Guyana has now joined 26 countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, which have signed MoUs for the implementation of SEACOP. SEACOP is executed on behalf of the European Union (EU) by the Spanish international cooperation agency Fundación Internacional y para Iberoamérica de Administración y Políticas Públicas (FIIAPP). Speaking at the signing ceremony at his Brickdam office, Ramjattan said he was very grateful to be able to collaborate with SEACOP to ensure that there is further training of police, customs and coastguard officers. “This comes at a time when I really feel that we should be collaborating more in view of the tremendous disadvantage we are at in relation to narcotics, trafficking, transnational crimes and all of those and a time when our resources are diminishing,” he said.

Theft charge against former Gold Board lab tech dismissed

A former laboratory technician attached to the Guyana Gold Board, who was charged earlier this year with stealing $2.1 million in gold from his employer, had the charge against him dismissed yesterday. It had been alleged that on February 19, at Brickdam, Ronald Singh stole 8.9 ounces of gold, valued at $2,153,000, property of the Guyana Gold Board. During yesterday’s court proceedings before Magistrate Judy Latchman, Attorney George Thomas, who represented the defendant, submitted that his client should not be called upon to lead a defence as the prosecution had failed to prove its case. He argued that there was no marking on the gold mentioned in the charge to prove that it was the property of the Guyana Gold Board. Bhojnarine Bhola

were read a charge which stated that between November 18 and November 19, 2012, they murdered Juman. Neither defendant was required to enter a plea to the charge. Attorney Ganesh Hira appeared on behalf of both defendants and requested the disclosure of statements in relation to the matter. Both defendants were remanded to prison until December 16, which is slated for the next hearing. Juman’s body was pulled from the hotel’s pool on November 19, 2012. At the time of the discovery, there were visible marks of violence about his body and his head was swollen. A subsequent post-mortem examination found that he died from asphyxiation and that “blunt trauma to head” also contributed significantly to his death.

Cop charged with taking $2M bribe to prevent charge in Pomeroon murder case

Lakeram Deochan

A police sergeant was yesterday charged with taking a $2M bribe to waive a charge against one of the accused in the death of Mohamed Abdool Shameer, who was killed in a boat collision and then buried in a shallow grave more than 60 miles away. Lakeram Deochan, 40, of 739 Charity, Essequibo, was read the charge that on April 26, 2016, at Charity, Essequibo Coast, while employed as an agent of the government, he corruptly obtained $2 million from Nalini Baharally as an inducement for not charging Lennox Baharally, her husband, for causing the boat mishap that resulted in the death of Shameer. Deochan, who has been in the police force for the past 23 years, pleaded not guilty to the crime and was eventually granted his release on $100,000 bail. Attorney George Thomas, who represented Deochan, told the court that Nalini did not give the defendant any money. He added that at the time the transaction was said to have occurred, Deochan was on annual leave.