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Guyanese farmer sentenced to four years in

 
Chrissy 2023-03-11 12:15:32 

prison for trafficking two Jamaican women to work on his farm. He was also fined several thousand dollars.
Lock him up!

A Guyana Police Force (GPF) statement said that Tito Browne was also sentenced to one-year imprisonment on the count of withholding the passports of the two Jamaican nationals.

Browne, who was arrested by police April 28, 2021, one day after a wanted bulletin was issued for him, was also fined GUY$200,000 (One Guyana dollar=US$0.004 cents) and ordered to pay $6.3 million in restitution to the victims.

Browne, also known as 'Tommy' and 'Yankee' appeared before Magistrate Wanda Fortune at the Linden Magistrate's Court on Thursday. He was charged with two counts of trafficking in persons and on each count, he was sentenced to four years' imprisonment. The sentences will run concurrently.

 
Curtis 2023-03-11 12:24:26 

In reply to Chrissy

Farmers can't ketch a break, is the labor shortage that bad?

I initially thought they sentenced him to 4 years in Jamaica.

 
Drapsey 2023-03-11 12:40:50 

In reply to Curtis

Is this your first post for the day?

Whether or not, it should be your last.

 
FanAttick 2023-03-11 12:55:03 

In reply to Chrissy

Sounds like ex CCC poster McCoy

 
Chrissy 2023-03-11 13:12:45 

In reply to FanAttick
It is not - leff mi brethren's brethren alone.

This is shameful.

 
Chrissy 2023-03-11 13:15:05 

In reply to Curtis
So they can kidnap fellow Caribbean citizens or citizens from anywhere - they should have given him a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison

 
Curtis 2023-03-11 13:20:17 

In reply to Drapsey

It was my first and it was in jest.
Serious topic. I deflect to just waking up and seeing 106 all out.

 
Dukes 2023-03-11 13:35:00 

In reply to Chrissy

The court was told that in November 2020, one of the victims met an individual in Jamaica, who indicated that Browne needed someone to work on his farm at Kara Kara Creek, Linden, in Guyana, and was willing to pay US$5,000 for the work to be done.


That story is very strange.

 
Chrissy 2023-03-11 14:10:17 

In reply to Dukes
Why?
My peeps tell me nuff ganja farming takes place in the area

 
Chrissy 2023-03-11 14:14:10 

In reply to Dukes

And then there's this

Lindeners are looking to exploit over 4,000 acres of valuable heart of palm trees in the Kara Kara area.
According to George Marshall, a long-time logger/farmer from Kara Kara, the Euterpe oleracea tree from which palm hearts (hearts of palm) are harvested, has been a dominant tree in that area with no one seemingly aware of its economic value.
The disclosure was made Wednesday as agriculture officials visited a number of areas in Region 10, to check on drainage works.
According to Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, the discovery of the trees could provide a source of livelihood for persons in Kara Kara.

 
Dukes 2023-03-11 15:48:27 

In reply to Chrissy

The story as presented is two women were given a tremendous job offer of $5000USD for manual labor in Guyana plus a return flight to Guyana and accommodation.They accepted this offer and when they got to Guyana and started working realized they were duped.The perpetrator was arrested and convicted of this crime.

I have lived too long to accept that story as told in the newspapers.

BTW $5,000USD is more than 1 MILLION Guyana Dollars.

 
camos 2023-03-11 15:54:36 

In reply to Dukes

workers in Jamaica likely would not know this is quite unlikely in Guyana.

 
Dukes 2023-03-11 15:57:37 

In reply to camos

R U saying that workers in Jamaica believe that workers in Guyana can make more than $5,000USD so would turn down such a job thus causing a farm owner to come to Jamaica to recruit them?

 
Dukes 2023-03-11 16:07:16 

I must admit to not knowing much about farm workers so my question might be silly.Are most farm workers male or female?

 
camos 2023-03-11 16:30:57 

In reply to Dukes

R U saying that workers in Jamaica believe that workers in Guyana can make more than $5,000USD so would turn down such a job thus causing a farm owner to come to Jamaica to recruit them?

Yes the average worker in Ja would not be too up on the situation, and would jump on the opportunity to "go a farrin" lol

 
Drapsey 2023-03-11 16:32:58 

In reply to Dukes

Dr Dukes, there are people in Jamaica that will seize just about every opportunity to get out of the stricken poverty. Females especially.

One of my stories here.

A know this woman from St Ann who took up one of these deals in Trinidad. I must confess that I subscribed to the process by assisting with the 'fees'.

She called to tell me that upon arrival and meeting up with her local contact, her travel documents were taken (for safekeeping) and she was put to work as a car-park 'security guard' at Piarco. The work wasn't all that bad, but for the fact that she had to sit in the sun all day, which didn't bode well with her already dark complexion. My advice to her was to 'accentuate her talents' (smile, please). A few weeks later she called again to say she was now working in an office at the same location (as an office maid, mind you).

Didn't hear from her for a while, but in a year or so later she called again. From Florida this time.

 
Dukes 2023-03-11 16:53:01 

In reply to Drapsey

My advice to her was to 'accentuate her talents' (smile, please).


Please do not encourage me to think cynically of how your advice was interpreted and acted upon by her!!!!!

 
Dukes 2023-03-11 16:56:32 

In reply to camos

"go a farrin"


Here is me thinking dat FARRIN means America or even Cayman.

Mebbe de man tell her Georgetown and she thought it was Cayman!!!!

 
Drapsey 2023-03-11 17:04:28 

In reply to Dukes

Ok, maybe I should've said her good looks.

wink

 
Chrissy 2023-03-11 19:27:20 

In reply to Dukes
Don’t have enough details but the fact that the restitution was so high suggests that the magistrate knew what was going on.

 
Chrissy 2023-03-11 19:29:51 

In reply to Dukes
When I was doing research in the Northwest of Guyana back in the 1980s, I ran into a Jamaican couple - both teachers. There are nuff Yardies across the Caribbean.

 
Brerzerk 2023-03-13 16:47:37 

But Chrissy dem too gullible though