Recent events review Saturday, April 7th to Friday, April 13th
goes in favour of us [the PPP], then without question Mr. Jagdeo will run again,” one well-placed source told Sunday Stabroek. “If the CCJ keeps the current law, then it’s down to three, Irfaan, Nandlall and Frank and that is in itself interesting because forget what you see on the outside, there are factions within the party and how that would be divided is another matter,” another source added. The CCJ is currently considering an appeal of rulings by the local judiciary overturning the presidential term limit, which could open the door for Jagdeo, a two-term president to seek re-election again.
Mother turns in son who escaped from Cove and John Police Station
“I couldn’t hesitate because I don’t encourage certain things. If you do a crime you have to face the time,” the mother of a 16-year-old boy who escaped from the Cove and John Police Station yesterday said after returning him to custody. The 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested a few days ago in ‘B’ Field, Sophia after he was found with an unlicensed gun and ammunition and was being held at the Cove and John Police station. However, yesterday morning the boy escaped from the station but was subsequently returned by his mother who found him after a thorough search. Speaking to Stabroek News last night, the boy’s mother said that she did not hesitate to turn her son in to the police since she does not encourage “certain things.” “I speaking to that child all the time. I want to sleep good at night. I don’t want police to beat me for children. The best thing I think was to turn he back where he gotto go. I tell he that you have to go to court and face the consequences for the things you doing on the road. I am a businesswoman and I wouldn’t like if somebody come and rob me,” the woman said. She explained that on Saturday night she visited the Police Station to take dinner for her son when an officer explained to her that the Sophia teen was asking frequently to be taken to the washroom. “I said I’m his mother and what you should do is give him a plastic bag, a box or a bottle and let him remain in the cell,” she said.
Mom gets 98 years in jail for killing children
Hodaciea Cadogan Jabari Cadogan
Hofosawa Awena Rutherford was yesterday afternoon sentenced to a total of 98 years in jail for killing her two children, Hodaciea Cadogan and Jabari Cadogan Jnr, whom she poisoned in 2014. Justice Navindra Singh, who sentenced Rutherford on two counts of man-slaughter for the killing of four-year-old daughter Hodaciea and one-year-old son Jabari Jr, said he could not understand why the woman was not indicted for murder, while noting that he found the killings to have been premeditated. “Everything points to murder,” the judge opined. Referencing the evidence presented at trial, Justice Singh said he could not fathom how Rutherford could possibly have mistaken the rat poison that she administered to her children for anything else. Her claim had been that as far as she knew she had bought and given to them “cold tablets.” The judge remarked that the poison, in the form of carbon tablets, carries a pungent odour, which would have become evident from the moment its packaging was opened. He said the fumigation scent would not be missed as such tablets do just that, “fumigate.”
Triumph man, 64, charged with threatening to kill president