Appearing before Magistrate Judy Latchman, yesterday, at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court were 26-year-old Victor Bobb of ‘B’ Field Sophia, Georgetown, and 18-year-old Quincy Arthur of Plaisance, Squatting Area, East Coast Demerara, to answer a charge of murder. It is alleged that on Tuesday, last, the defendants murdered 64-year-old Dennis Ramah. Bobb was unrepresented and Arthur was represented by attorney-at-law Rexford Jackson.The defendants were not required to plead,Supply NFL Jerseys Factory, since the charge is indictable.The lawyer requested that the defendants be taken for medical examinations, since they contended that they were brutally assaulted by police ranks.The court was told that on November 16, last, the defendants were executing a robbery,Cheap Soccer Jerseys, when Ramah was shot by gunmen and later succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC). Bobb and Arthur are to make their next court appearance on January 6, 2011. The two were allegedly part of a six-member gang that invaded the L&D Shopping Centre. According to police sources,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, Arthur is a well known character.The brazen daylight robbery at 18 Second Street, Chateau Margot,jerseys from china, East Coast Demerara has left a businessman dead, as well as one of the attackers,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, and a Rural Constable nursing a gunshot wound at a private hospital. Ramah’s son, Nigel, had told Kaieteur News that around 09:30 hours on Tuesday, a man entered his father’s business place, posing as a customer.? He said that the man ordered a “chip” from an employee and as she was attending to the “customer”, four others entered the supermarket.He said that two of the men then held the employees at gunpoint and ordered them to lie face down on the floor, while the other three went upstairs. While in the businessman’s home, Nigel said that his mother, Lorine Ramah, was held at gunpoint and was ordered by one of the gunmen to hand over cash and jewellery. He said that his mother directed the men to a cupboard in the kitchen.It was while in the kitchen, that his father entered the house with a cutlass and attacked one of the gunmen from behind. He stated that the gunman was chopped on his back. One of the man’s accomplices then shot Dennis Ramah in the chest. Kaieteur News understands that the dead bandit has not been identified.

After being on the run for almost three months, police have arrested a Pike Street, Kitty goldsmith who reportedly doused his brother-in-law with acid.Reports are that,Wholesale Stitched Jerseys, since October 11 last, police have been on the hunt for Mahendra Kadoo, who had thrown the corrosive substance on Vickey Lall.This newspaper was told that Kadoo was arrested on Christmas Day.Kadoo is expected to appear in court sometime today,Cheap Stitched Jerseys, charged with attempted murder.On October 11last, Kadoo and Lall were seen consuming alcohol together at a shop in Pike Street, Kitty. Moments later,Authentic China Jerseys, Kadoo,Cheap NFL Jerseys Store, who is married to Lall’s sister, was heard accusing Lall of ‘talking his name.’Following a brief argument, Kadoo left the shop, but later returned with a bottle in his hand.He then walked up to Lall and emptied the liquid on him. It was later discovered that the liquid was acid. The injured Lall was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he was treated and subsequently admitted.Lall reportedly sustained burns to his face,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, hands, abdomen and other parts of his body.This newspaper was told that the injured man’s relatives are now contemplating taking him overseas for further medical treatment.

Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, is refuting reports that a proposal to increase rates paidMinister of Public Infrastructure,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, David Pattersonby commuters on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) is before Cabinet.This issue flared up during the consideration of the budgetary estimates in parliament earlier in the week. Opposition Member of Parliament, Juan Edghill, had grilled the Minister, emphasizing that while there is no problem with approving the money for maintenance, it cannot be while an increase is likely.Patterson had earlier broken down what the $150M estimated for the DHB entailed. He had stated that money would go to servicing pontoons and fabricating the buoys. The supply of shackles was listed as costing $20M, and works on the retractor span would come up to $25M.In response,Cheap Jerseys From China, however, Edghill had raised the issue of increases, which had been reported at the end of last month when the new board of directors of the DHB received their instruments of appointment at the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.According to reports in sections of the media, Junior Minister of Public Infrastructure, Annette Ferguson, had stated that DHB General Manager,NFL Jerseys Clearance, Rawlston Adams, had submitted a proposal for a rate increase and that it was awaiting Cabinet approval.“We were told by public announcement, that there was consideration for an increased rate for the Demerara Harbour Bridge,” Edghill told the House. “We were advised by way of media, when the Board was sworn in, that there is a Cabinet paper to increase the rates on the Harbour Bridge.”The Demerara Harbour Bridge“This is a capital item here and we are asked to give (money) from tax payers to support the Demerara Harbour Bridge. We have no problem with that,” he said. “What we want to find out is if we are giving money for a capital item; if there will still be an increase in rates as announced.”“There is no Cabinet paper,” Patterson replied. “There is no paper before Cabinet or anyone on an increase in the Demerara Harbour Bridge (rates).”The existing two-lane floating bridge was constructed in 1978 by the UK firm Thomas Storey Engineers Limited. From 1995 to 1998 the bridge underwent major rehabilitation by the Damien Ship Yards of the Netherlands at a cost of US$9M.At present the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) carries out intensive annual maintenance and element replacement activities on the bridge structure to provide a continuous level of service.The Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation is responsible for the management and collection of tolls. The average annual revenue collection is approximately US$1.9M.However, plans are on stream to establish a new bridge linking the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) with the West Bank. Three possible sites have already been examined and they include a link between Houston, EBD to Versailles, WBD, New Hope,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, EBD to Laurentia Catherina, WBD or a site close to the existing bridge.Last November, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure invited fresh Expressions of Interest (EoI) from local and foreign consultants,Cheap Jerseys Supply, to have a feasibility study and design for the new bridge completed.Almost a dozen companies, both foreign and local, vied for this contract.