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Mahadai Magoo (L) and her husband, Ramdeo Persaud (R) were savagely executed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No justification for criminal violence in democratic society
-- U.S. Ambassador stresses
 
SUNDAY
** COUPLE KILLED IN ROBBERY ATTACK - A BUSSINESSMAN, Ramdeo Persaud, 43, and his wife, Mahadai Magoo, 32, were shot dead last night at around 19:30 hrs when six heavily armed bandits stormed their home in Peter Street, Annandale, East Coast Demerara.

The gang burst into the business place demanding cash and jewellery and then shot the couple dead, reports said.

Children without parents (parents executed)

 



** NO JUSTIFICATION FOR CRIMINAL VIOLENCE IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY - US AMBASSADOR STRESSES - UNITED States Ambassador, Mr. Ronald Godard, yesterday said one reason why Guyanese are so frightened by the current crime wave in the country is that the problem is being debated in a particularly acrimonious political environment.

He said that in this environment, criminal violence, normally roundly condemned by all sectors of society, has been treated almost like “a legitimate subject for debate”.

** PRESIDENT WARNS OF LIKELY CONSEQUENCES IF SITUATION CONTINUES - PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo has warned of the likely consequences if the current situation in the country is not arrested.

He last week said many of the things happening in Guyana today could lead to a gradual slide into chaos if some trends are not arrested. He said the country must never allow enclaves for criminals, noting that in Jamaica, police and soldiers cannot go into some communities controlled by guns.

TUESDAY
** CANADA JOINS U.S. IN DEPLORING CRIMINAL VIOLENCE HERE - CANADIAN High Commissioner, Mr. Serge Marcoux has joined his American counterpart here, US Ambassador, Mr. Ronald Godard, in deploring criminal violence in a democratic society such as Guyana.

“I fully subscribe to what my colleague the Ambassador of the United States said last Saturday: `There is no justification for criminal violence in a democratic society; just as there is no justification for political violence in a democracy’,” Marcoux said yesterday.

** PRESIDENT REFUTES CLAIMS THAT POLICE CANNOT ARREST CRIMINALS - PRESIDENT Bharrat Jagdeo has refuted claims that the Police Force is incapable of arresting criminals and those abetting them in executing criminal activities and hiding from the Force.

The Government Information Agency (GINA) said that in an interview with Prime News Editor-in-Chief, Mr. Adam Harris, Mr. Jagdeo said that the Police have been active in exploring links leading to criminals and where possible, arresting criminals.


.May 12, 2002