

The Government of Jamaica should apply power cuts (load shedding) and regulate water supply to
Comrade Ramphal's residence. Kick down the doors bandits should go after him too.
Let him have a taste of what others are experiencing in Guyana, as he and Dr. Mohamed Shahabuddin (World court in the Hague) engineered the destruction of beautiful Guyana under Emperor Sampson
Burham.
Thursday December 19, 2002
Kidnappers
demanding ransom for 19-year-old Mon Repos carpenter
Was held
during visit to Buxton
By Nigel Williams
Two days have
passed since kidnappers snatched a 19-year-old man from Mon Repos and demanded
ransom and up to press time yesterday the police were still trying to find out
what had happened to him.
Heeraman Sahadeo, called `Jappo', of Lot
114-115 Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara has been in the hands of his captors
somewhere in the village of Buxton since Tuesday.
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Up to late last evening his relatives and
friends were keeping vigil at his home hoping that his captors would
call.
The young man was said to have been visiting Buxton for some time now
in an attempt to collect wages owed to him by a building contractor
there.
Contacted yesterday Assistant Superintendent of Police, David
Ramnarine said that the police are investigating the matter. Major Hubert
Meusa of the Guyana Defence Force told Stabroek News that while the army is
aware of the report it has not been asked by the police to assist.
Two other
East Coast men who were kidnapped in recent months were later discovered dead in
or close to Buxton.
Sahadeo's grandmother Krishendai Seenanand speaking to
this newspaper yesterday said that she found it very strange that Sahadeo had
been asked to visit Buxton to be paid when usually he and other workmen are paid
at work. The woman said that on Tuesday at about 2:20 pm Sahadeo went to her
home and told her that he was going to Buxton to collect some money owed to him.
She said it was about two weeks since he had been going to Buxton for the money,
but on all the previous occasions the man had been making promises to him.
Seenanand said shortly after he told her his plan, his mother Radha Sahadeo came
across to her house which is in the same yard and handed him $40 for his bus
fare.
The young man set off at about 2:30 pm telling both his mother and
grandmother that he was going by a `Rasta man' for his money. Seenanand said as
the hours slipped by and Heeraman did not return they became very
concerned.
At 6 pm the young man's uncle Budraj Sukhdeo answered a telephone
call. Sukhdeo said he allowed the phone to ring twice before answering it. "All
I hear was a male voice and the man ask me where is `Sadesh' which is another
call name for Heeraman."
Sukhdeo said he answered the person in the negative
and immediately the phone was hung up on him. Sukhdeo told this newspaper that
he heard loud voices and music in the background.
Thirty minutes later the
phone rang again and this time Seenanand answered the phone.
"Where is
Sadesh?" the voice inquired. "Me nah know weh he deh," Seenanand
responded.
She related that soon after she said that, the man on the phone
said that he would like to speak to Radha, adding that he was her
friend.
Seenanand said she called her daughter over to answer the phone and
then the man told Radha that he and others had kidnapped her son and demanded
that she pack up all of the gold jewellery she had along with $5 million and
keep it for them. Radha said on hearing that she requested to speak to Heeraman
and her request was granted. When her son came on the phone he was only allowed
to say "mummy" and the phone was hung up.
With the second call Radha said she
immediately went to the Beterverwagting Police Station and made a report. While
she was at the station Sukhdeo said he received another call from the men asking
whether they had already accumulated the money.
"I ask dem how much they want
and the man said $5 million and I ask him how he is going to get it and his
response was bring it down at Kitty Market."
Sukhdeo said he also asked the
man how he could recognise him if he should go to the market, and the caller
told him that he would know him, and if he does not carry the money they would
burn down their house and kill everyone.
The phone was hung up after the
threats but 15 minutes later another call was received inquiring whether they
were serious about handing over the money.
"Our business is to kill, you all
best deh pon business, because if we don't get de money is kill we gun kill he
and when we done we gonna blow up de house regardless of police or soldier,"
Sukhdeo quoted the man as saying.
Leaving Heeraman's relatives, the
kidnappers called his paramour's mother who resides at Success, also on the East
Coast, and inquired first whether she was his mother-in-law. Stabroek News
understands that the woman answered in the affirmative and after she did, they
told her that he was being held and they needed $2 million from her for his
release. Sukhdeo said that Heraman was allowed to speak to the woman
briefly.
The teenager's relatives said that from all indications the
kidnappers have been questioning him since some personal business was leaked by
the kidnappers to his mother-in-law.
Since then there has been no other calls
to either the teenager's mother-in-law or his grandmother.
Heeraman's
relatives said that they are very poor people and there was no way they could
meet the ransom demand. The young man is to be married soon. He is known in the
area for his carpentry skills and was described by his relatives as a very quiet
and peaceful person.