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Too bad they r not in Canada, else $10.5 MIL each for them.

In reply to tops

Again?
Damn!

In reply to tops

Seeing the video on FB, I suspect a lot of fatalities coming out of this

Wow, unbelievable the authorities were not on top of this situation.

In reply to steveo

hmmm
Virtually all of the wooden buildings that made up the Georgetown Prison were burnt to the ground. They include the capital block and part of the administrative building.

In reply to Chrissy
"Sources said the the unrest began when an inmate, fed uo of being remanded for a lengthy period; attacked a female prison warden. She begged for her life.

Two male prisoners were chopped during the early period of the fracas.

Others then began banging doors and calling for the jail to be burnt.



After heavily armed soldiers and police facilitated the exit of numerous prisoners and taken across to the Prison Officers Club as a holding area, a number of them opened bottles of liquor such as vodka, soaked their jerseys, lit and tossed them into the club setting that building ablaze."

Lawlessness rules that land

In reply to Runs
Ramjattan Talks

In reply to Runs

Hahahaha, you are saying that while living in the land that bought us Gitmo and Abu Grahib

to quote another poster

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Ress yuh self pardner

In reply to steveo

Just stating facts brother
You guys are good at shifting the goalpost and changing the topic but refuse to address the issues. Crime and lawlessness are out of control, cops are giving employees guns to rob banks, address and fix these issues clown.
You seem more aware of issues that do not concern you than your own, typical of you lot.

UPDATES
1. 60 inmates escaped
2. Inmates being transfered to lusignan jail atm.
3. Parts of east coast has blackout.
4. Police and inmates in a shoot out at buxton.

Goodluck to guyana and god bless ❤.

In reply to Runs
60? This thing can be dangerous. DAM!

In reply to tops

Too many governments have allowed and allow the violation of citizen's rights.
The law appears to be mostly farce.
Across this region there are people who were supposed to be remanded for 48 hours and some are in prison (and not jail) for months and even years.

We had a horrific case here a couple years ago where they had transferred prisoners from jail to prison before a hurricane and one poor man was locked up for 22 blasted years. He had been arrested for some petty crime. Of course they had to pay him millions but by then he was a shadow of his former self - mentally ill.

Someone messed up the paper work and they forgot him. He complained for years and they did nothing - 22 years bro - just so.

link

of news

In reply to Chrissy

Excellent points

In reply to tops

5 escaped, I don't know where 60 is coming from

In reply to steveo

Worst place to have a fire is a prison. ...imagine the terror
How many died?

In reply to Curtis

He seems to have all the information at his fingertips, heads need to roll.


According to Police Public Relations Officer, Jairam Ramlakhan, police are still to ascertain the exact number of prisoners who escaped yesterday. The Camp Street Prison, up to Sunday morning, held 1018 prisoners- more than half of which were remand cases.

In reply to Curtis

No prisoner death reported so far. At least one officer dead and a couple injured.

Lots of overcrowding in the jails for simple things like a piece of marijuana.

I think Guyana should make a decision to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana instead of waiting for the lead of the ABC countries.

links:

5 escaped

They do not know how many escaped, do not be misled.

According to Police Public Relations Officer, Jairam Ramlakhan, police are still to ascertain the exact number of prisoners who escaped yesterday. The Camp Street Prison, up to Sunday morning, held 1018 prisoners- more than half of which were remand cases.

In reply to Runs
this genocide against indo Guyanese ... all heading for sanctuary village on east coast

In reply to nickoutr

Chaos reigns supreme, word out is this was well planned and orchestrated. I shudder to even imagine the future with these dangerous armed criminals at large.

Latest below.


NCN News visited the Lusignan Prison this morning.

At that location, we were informed that there is no list of names of the transferred prisoners at the moment.

According to one prison employee, they are in the process of conducting a tally to ascertain how many prisoners are missing, as well as their identities.

Meanwhile, the relatives of the inmates are in a state of worry as they await word from the prison officials as to whether their relatives escaped the inferno unharmed.

They related that at the moment they are not allowed to visit their relatives or deliver food supplies.

Details to follow in a subsequent newscast...

In reply to Runs
the number of missing wont be pretty at all

In reply to nickoutr

Dude, they are clueless. Incompetence at it's best, that is Guyana in 2017. A damn shame, a country blessed with natural resources but cursed with incompetent politicians and bureaucrats.

Reactive as usual.


As government takes steps to respond to Sunday afternoon prison riot a magistrate is scheduled to meet in temporary court settings at the Lusignan Prison to grant bail to petty crimes offenders.
Commander of ‘C’ Division Calvin Brutus confirmed to the Guyana Chronicle that the magistrate will be at the Lusignan correctional facility this afternoon. The Georgetown Prison has been beset by overcrowding- something which has been raised over the years. As of Sunday over 1000 prisoners were being held at the Georgetown facility.

Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan on Sunday night had said he was mulling several extraordinary measures to reduce the Camp Street Prison population, one of which is an early release of non-violent, well-behaved prisoners. Ramjattan was at the time responding to questions about the occupancy level of the Camp Street Prison in the light of Sunday’s fire which left hundreds of prisoners displaced. “It has to do with a lot of prisoners who are serving time, three years for possession. I have the statistics and a lot of them are there for possession of narcotics and trafficking of narcotics and all of that and they have served some time and they are of good behaviour,” he told reporters.

Now blame sugar what a place

Additionally, there is a possibility that as early as today, the minister will sit down with the Chancellor of the Judiciary to review some of the remand cases for lesser fines to be imposed. He was also quizzed about the capital expenditure at the Georgetown correctional facility being adequate. “It is also because there is a lack of money for these investments. We have to bail out sugar and we have to do so many other things and that is what is cramping our style in what we have to do for other sectors.”

Spent a shitload of money on Independence celebrations, ministers salaries etc but the safety of her citizens and law and order were not deemed priorities

In reply to Runs

Ramjattan is an ass.

They have money to build a 1.7 billion white elephant that is durban park. Pay half mil a month for Broomes housing. God knows how much to rent their friend drug storage. Overpay Ansa Mcal for drugs.

I can go on and on.

He needs to be booked a room in the palms mental facility.

In reply to steveo

In reply to steveo
I hear Suriname police was notified to be on the lookout for them.
Latest

Hundreds of criminals may be set free as records were destroyed and no backups were kept.
It is sounding like an incompetent administrative nightmare. Oh well it is Guyana

In reply to tops

Thats a good call, thats one of the first places they go. I am hearing the mastermind is one convicted of multiple murders in the lusignan massacre, he was sentenced to death

In reply to Runs

Cannot be true, the courts should have those records, no?

Lewwe see who gun be held accountable?

I don't know how folks can return to live there anymore
Yes we face racism in foreign lands but I've seen the hatred from fellow Guyanese faces because of race and social status and it hurts more

In reply to Raskil

When the KKK start coming for all brown skinned rasses, dont complain

In reply to steveo

Bai KKK is a very small underground unit, this USA is huge with constitutional laws and protection. All who try to circumvent and do ill end up paying in the end. Am not saying it does not have issues and problems, but not on a scale as seen in Guyana for example.

ISIS should look into doing something about Guyana.

In reply to Devin

Is a bad batch that came pun Bihar and Africa causing all this ruckus

In reply to Runs

the deplorables

In reply to Runs

Hey hey hey, leave Bihar out of this.

In reply to steveo

They're already outnumbered they just don't know it

Latinos are the new majority

In reply to Raskil

Legal?

Alyuh ketch the escaped murderers yet?

This is a funny thread. Now reading. Almost as funny as the voice notes and FB media creating mass paranoia when this all happened.

Incompetence... understatement.
Reactive...understatement. But so many distractions. Don't believe the rumours. No mass fatalities. Initially there were voice notes on WhatsApp talking about state emergency and national disaster and 100+ dead bodies. Public Hospital ER was quite calm. The mass casualty coordination had little to no work. The 'escaped' bandits in buxton were actually not escaped bandits. The criminals being released are persons on remand for small drug offences who been in the prison for month (you'd spend more time in prison for a few grams of marijuana than you would for causing death by dui at times). There was a number of 9 unaccounted prisoners but the list will be revisited as they located one in one of the temporary holding facilities.
Ppl just need to wait for more details to come out. Ramjattan is failing as Minister of Home Affairs and Securities. But kudos to the Fire service, police officers and GDF for limiting casualties considering some prisoners were armed.

In reply to Cardiac

Lol You APNU propagandist or apologist?

In reply to Cardiac

They caught an escapee this morning...problem is he was not listed on the list of five(5) that they said escaped.

Do you know how many escaped and why the govt is either lying/clueless about the number?

How did the prisoners manage to acquire guns?

In reply to Runs

Neither. Realist. I've never been pro APNU. Just a citizen who wants a legitimately better option than either of the 2 political Giants.

In reply to steveo

Government is clueless because all public organizations here lack professionalism, accountability, and proper record keeping. I don't put lying past governments...possibly damage control.
We have reactive governments. Read Freddy article today. I know many don't like him but he hit the nail on the head with this one. I'll share shortly.

In reply to Runs
According to an officer that survived by playing dead, they had improvised weapons and overpowered 2 female prison officers. Disarmed them and they may have also made their way to the armoury. There were a few reporters that caught some things live and even a few drone footage.
Fires got out of control because you could see the prisoners shooting at the firemen.
What I don't get is, what ever happened to our Water Cannon and SWAT?

See what Freddy has to say here.

Sad place

In reply to Cardiac

Kudos indeed. Esp for transfering that much prisoners in such short time without any of them escaping and so on.

Exactly. That's why I say no party should be fighting for points here. Collectively they've created the atmosphere for this shit. Now a Magistrate going and trying to clean up cases for all those who on petty crimes and small drug possession to get bail or released. Imagine being in prison for 3 years for marijuana cigarettes...

This.

Minor marijuana possession and other petty crimes should not merit prison time.

Give them community service, have them clean up the nasty communities.

These politicians need to grow balls and create policies that are more fitting to their country and get their head out of the ABC countries ass.

I know they are waiting for
1. ABC countries to decriminalize marijuana before they do it.
2. They are reluctant to sentence people to labor and community service because the ABC countries classify that as "slavery".

In reply to steveo


2. They are reluctant to sentence people to labor and community service because the ABC countries classify that as "slavery

Which ABC country?
I can state that in the USA, people get sentenced to community service all the time.

DEATH ROW inmate, Mark Royden Williams, called “Smallie” who is one of several prisoners who escaped from the Georgetown Prisons and who is wanted for murder and escaping from lawful custody, has other pending matters in the Georgetown High Court.

The wanted, condemned prisoner was jointly charged with Michael Caesar for the murders of Fazil Hakim called “Boyie” and Rajesh Singh called “Rabbit” at a liquor bar at Lot 82, Agriculture Road, Triumph, East Coast Demerara in December 2007.

He was convicted for his involvement in the February 17, 2008 Bartica Massacre in which he killed Lance Corporal Zaheer Zakir and Constables Shane Fredericks and Ron Osborne.
Edwin Gilkes, Dexter Adrian, Irving Ferreira, Deonarine Singh, Ronald Gomes, Ashraf Khan, Abdool Yasseen, Errol Thomas, and Baldeo Singh.

He was convicted of eight counts of murder and four counts of manslaughter and was sentenced to death by Justice Roxane George SC now Chief Justice. Additionally, as it relates to the Bartica Massacre, Williams has a second indictment for terrorism and three counts for break and enter and larceny.

In reply to Runs

Runs be careful before amnesty international come fuh yuh
You know how they luv dem criminals and their rights

Especially in third world countries...

In reply to steveo

Bannuh dem illegals making kids with full citizenship

In reply to Raskil

In reply to Raskil

Bannuh when whitey power is threatened, they will get nasty. For now they are patronizing. The reason is, for all the numbers of the latino population they dont have 5% of the power of whitey. They are tolerated for cheap labour, thats all.