A family of eight of? 231 Lord Street, Number Two Village, East Canje are counting themselves lucky after surviving a five-minute ordeal with six armed bandits Thursday evening.The masked men, armed with a cutlass and a gun, broke into the home of Ramlall Roopchand around 01:30hrs and were spotted just as they were about to gain entry through a bedroom window after dogs started to bark and awaken the family.Roopchand saw one of them in the yard and another on his verandah and asked them what they were doing. The men then fired six shots into the bedroom window and verandah door, both on the upper-flat of the building while the one on the verandah started to hack away at the glass on the window with a cutlass.By then, all of the occupants had awaken and started to yell, “Thief! Thief!”? Two of the men had by then gained entry into the house.According to the son, Sumeshwar Roopchand, all of the occupants had found hiding places by then. His mother had hidden in the bathroom and his father went under the bed. The rest of his brothers stayed in the room and locked the door.“They started to run (in the house) and look all about. I hear one tell the other one, ‘Let he come let we shoot the people and kill them out and hustle go along our way,Jerseys From China,” Sumeshwar said.The bandits not finding any person upstairs in the house, then went downstairs through a step located in the building. One of Sumeshwar’s brothers, Somarnauth Roopchand, during this time thought that the men had left. The 17-year-old boy then went downstairs, where the bandits were frantically searching for the occupants.“When he (Somarnauth) go downstairs, all of them (the bandits) were downstairs. They ran after Somarnauth who made a dash again for the upstairs. He ran into the room and locked the door. One of the bandits then tried to hit the door down with his feet. After unsuccessful attempts to break the door down, the bandits were heard saying, “Boy let we go along; time catching up,”,Wholesale Jerseys From China, and they left.“They would have killed we, because they went looking for we. They said if they didn’t have money or jewel or anything, they killing everybody. The one with the cutlass telling the one with the gun, “Boy hustle and shoot the people out and let we go along we way,” said Sumeshwar.“That’s why we ain’t come out we room .There was no weapon,http://www.soccerpro.us.com/FC-Bayern-Munich/, no knife, no cutlass, no wood, no nothing,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, so we can’t come unarmed and then they will want to hold we down for ransom and do something real bad,” Sumeshwar told Kaieteur News.“It was a quick thing,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, everybody just screaming. They (the bandits) just brukking down and running and firing shots and thing,” he said.Ramlall Roopchand is self- employed and operates a scrap-metal trade on the premises. He stated that this was the third time his home has been invaded by bandits. His wife, Shamatie Anantram, was still in shock and could not speak to the media.“Me wife hollered till she get blackout. Since one o’ clock last night we ain’t get back sleep. We afraid to live here. At least I am doing my little fine business. You can’t live in fear. The first thing the bandits hollered was that they going to kill everybody”, Roopchand stated.Police arrived very promptly on the scene and took statements from the traumatised occupants. No spent shells were found on the scene. Police have reportedly arrested two persons.And one of the persons who was sleeping at the bottom flat of the home, a youth employed by Roopchand, who came face to face with the bandits assisted police on Friday morning with an identification parade on the individuals who were arrested.“He see the whole act and everything, but he frighten to move. He went right there when they do everything,Wholesale NFL Jerseys,” Sumeshwar said.The bandits did not leave with anything from the home. The family fears that the incident could have turned out to be a mass murder where they all could have been shot and killed by the bandits who they felt were in a rage throughout the five-minute episode.The bandits escaped into the rice fields, opposite the Roopchands.

– man detained in Kwakwani– Joint Services on trail of fleeing gangThe body of a gunman, who was shot dead during a shootout with members of the Joint Services last Friday at Christmas Falls, remains unidentified.Yesterday,Tyson Jackson Falcons Jersey, relatives of a Buxton man whom Police have identified as a member of the notorious gang believed to be involved in the shootout, denied that the body was his after viewing it at the Georgetown Public Hospital’s mortuary.There were indications that the dead man might have been a Buxtonian known only as ‘Mud-up’.However, after viewing the body repeatedly, relatives claimed that there was too much uncertainty to come to a definitive conclusion.According to relatives, the dead man’s badly swollen face certainly did not help them, a situation made worse by a bullet hole in the right side jaw.The body also bore huge bullet holes to the chest and right shoulder.The relatives were questioned by Police who had accompanied them to the mortuary, but no useful information was obtained.While the relatives did not recognize the remains as that of ‘Mud Up,’ they did not distinguish it as anyone they knew.Last Friday, ranks from the Joint Services ambushed the notorious gang at their hideout some 300 miles up the Berbice River.During the confrontation, one man was killed while the ranks believe that they wounded others. One of the fleeing men was identified as wanted man Rondell Rawlins, called ‘Fine Man’.Police say they saw blood along the trail the gunmen had fled.Police stated that those who escaped with Rawlins included Richard Ramcharran,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, called ‘Uncle Willie,’ ‘Magic,’ and ‘Chung Boy’.The ranks recovered three FN rifles, four shotguns, and a .32 revolver; two AK-47 magazines,Wholesale Jerseys, seven FN rifle magazines, and several rounds of ammunition from the gunmen’s well-stocked hideout.According to a statement, the three FN rifles were stolen from the Bartica Police Station during the armed attack on that community on February 17, 2008.The .32 revolver and two of the shotguns were stolen from the home of Bartica miner Chunilall Babulall.The Joint Services ranks were said to have also found a diary which provided “incontrovertible evidence” of Rawlins’s planning and execution of the killings at Lusignan and Bartica.The Police said that the wanted man also planned to take vengeance for the death of his sister, Marcyn King, who was shot dead as she was returning home from her place of employment,Cheap Stitched Jerseys, on March 10 last.According to the statement, the diary also contained several telephone numbers.Yesterday, residents of Kwakwani, which is some 90 miles from the gunmen’s hideout,NFL Jerseys Authentic Cheap, told Kaieteur News that a large Joint Services contingent was still present in the community.The Skyvan aircraft and a helicopter could also be seen flying regularly, they said.Kaieteur News understands that the ranks have arrested at least one man whom they suspect may be linked to the gunmen.However, this newspaper was told that a Kwakwani resident who was arrested and interrogated in Georgetown has since been released.

– Barbadian and French specialists to train locals? ?The soon to be completed police forensic laboratory at the University of Guyana Turkeyen Campus will definitely have the capabilities to do DNA testing for forensic purposes.This was disclosed by Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, who told the media that the administration has obtained the commitment of two specialists to train local scientists in the process.There was discussion on the capacity of the local facility to conduct DNA testing for forensic science.Over the years Guyana has had to rely on overseas laboratories for this purpose, which often led to confusion and delays.But according to the Minister, the administration has put in place measures to address this problem.“A Barbadian specialist is coming down to Guyana to assist us with that. We’ve also got commitments from the French Government for them to send someone to assist us with that,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, particularly the DNA aspect,” Rohee disclosed.However, apart from the training in DNA science, there will be the need for specialist training in the field of evidence gathering for court purposes.In a recent interview, a local forensic analyst had indicated that no one has so far been sent for the requisite training to, first of all, work in a state of the art forensic laboratory, much less give expert testimony on the results obtained.“This facility requires state of the art training and so far nothing has been done in this area. Those who have to operate in the lab will have to attend specialist universities to do work like Serology,Cheap NFL Jerseys, which is one of the most common forms of evidence today,” explained the source.DNA testing, locally will be cost effective, he argued, since it could easily cost the Guyana Government about $300,000 to send each sample overseas for testing.“Where are all the bright Guyanese? Barbados is beating us with training. In their lab they have people with Master’s Degrees,” the source declared.Last year, Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee remarked that because of the involvement of University of Guyana personnel,Wholesale Jerseys China, public confidence in the forensic results would be well enhanced.He noted that in Guyana and the rest of the world, “the complex nature of crime has to be responded to both with old,Jerseys NFL China, tested methods and with new cutting edge methods.”Last year April, the Guyana Government signed a $450M contract with Courtney Benn Contracting Services Limited for the construction of a forensic laboratory at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus.The construction of the laboratory, which is funded by the Inter American Development Bank in partnership with the Guyana Government,Cheap China Jerseys, is expected to greatly enhance the investigative capabilities of the Guyana Police Force.

Following weeks of water problem at the New Amsterdam Hospital, where some surgical patients could not have accessed water, Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI), Karan Singh said that the issue is being addressed by the water company.At a press conference held on Friday, Singh explained that the hospital happens to be at the very extreme of the water system in Berbice,Dale Hawerchuk Jersey, since before the water reaches to the institution, it has to pass through the entire town first.“People leave their taps on, and as such the water does not flow down to the hospital,” Singh said.As such, GWI has now arranged to supply the hospital with water during the nights, when the demand is not high,Jeff Reine-Adelaide Arsenal Jersey UK, so that they will be able to store enough water for use.“What we have found for the two months that we have managed the water supply is that everything was ok…we were pumping water for them and as soon as the hospital took over management of the water situation, they got problems once again.”In this regard,NBA Jerseys China, GWI is planning to visit the hospital sometime this week,Cheap China Jerseys Authentic, so as to discuss how the company can assist in providing them with a sustainable service.“And they also have to remember the times when the laundry taps are left on twenty-four/seven and the water is flowing in the compound and the public goes into the hospital and leave the taps on…nobody checks it and water is being wasted,” the CEO said.Singh has since encouraged the hospital officials to buy the automatic cut-off taps, so that they can assist in conserving water.“It is a health institution…we recognize that; we want to be sure that everything is done to make it happen.”Meanwhile, GWI is urging all public entities, such as hospitals,Cheap Jerseys Online, schools and places of public gathering to build reservoirs to store water for emergency.To this effect, the water company has already written to the Ministries of Education and Health so that they can ensure that all development projects carry storage capacity for water.“The water must not only be for personal use, but in case there are fires,Wholesale China Jerseys, since GWI does not have fire hydrants in rural areas and there are schools that are there permanently,” Singh said.In this regard, the NA hospital is in the process of building a reservoir, which was designed by GWI.? (Fareeza Haniff)