LIAR - Guyana’s embattled Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy

NEW YORK: The New York based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) announced Sunday that its legal committee has analyzed transcripts of testimony and evidence presented by the United States (US) Justice Department in the trial of Robert Simels in Federal Court in New York. “The evidence establishes that Guyana’s President, Bharrat Jagdeo and Health Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, “Are crooks who are alleged accessories to murder, and who allegedly countenanced the killing of hundreds of Guyanese citizens,” the organization said.

“The evidence has proven both Mr. Jagdeo and Dr. Ramsammy to be chronic liars who have breached the public trust. We call on them both to resign forthwith,” the Institute declared. CGID also called on Guyana’s Police Commissioner Henry Green to resign, saying “Commissioner Green has blatantly mislead the public and intentionally overlooked hundreds of murders by a network of “Phantom” hit-men, some government Ministers and members of the security forces. He must resign so that the Guyana Police Force can be reformed and its integrity rehabilitated.”

The Institute noted that since Guyana’s Police, Military and Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), appear to be irredeemably corrupt, they cannot be trusted to conduct a professional or credible investigation of these matters. Hence, it called for Jagdeo, Ramsammy and other accomplices to be hauled to the International Criminal Court in The Hague and prosecuted for ‘crimes against humanity.’ “They deserve to be thrown in jail like other international criminals such as Slobodan Milosevic, Manuel Noriega and Charles Taylor, Jr.,” the CGID statement said.

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Shem Walker

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: The New York based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) is calling on Brooklyn District Attorney, Charles Hynes, to charge an undercover NYPD narcotics cop with manslaughter, for what it called “The willful shooting to death of Guyanese-American and United States Army veteran, Shem Walker, last Saturday.”

Walker, who was visiting his sick mother, Lydia Walker, at her brownstone home at 370 Lafayette Ave, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, had just finished feeding her dinner, at around 7:45 P.M, and had gone outside for a smoke, when he encountered a man sitting on his stairs. He reportedly asked the stranger to leave, and a struggle may have ensued.

However, the trespasser turned out to be an undercover Police officer from the Brooklyn North Narcotics squad, who was purportedly equipped with headphones and allegedly listening in on a drug buy.

The New York Post reported that the two wrestled and fell to the ground, and that the cop broke free, reached for his gun and shot Walker in the head and chest. Walker was taken to the nearby Brooklyn Hospital Center where he was pronounced dead.

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CGID President Rickford Burke

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: The Guyanese-American President of the New York based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID), Rickford Burke, has said that Barbados’s new immigration policy is “divisive” and “supercilious,” and undermines the Caribbean Community.”

“The extant immigration practices in Barbados lack careful thought, have been fundamentally discriminatory and are antithetical to the values of the integration movement,” Burke asserted.

His comments come weeks after Prime Minister of Barbados, David Thompson, announced a new policy that allow undocumented Caribbean nationals who began residing in Barbados prior to 2005 to be given Barbadian government identification and work permits, but subject those who entered thereafter and remain undocumented to deportation.

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South Jersey murder victim Guyanese-American Sven Hinds

The family of a Guyanese American man, Sven Hinds, who was murdered execution style and dumped in the woods near the Delaware Memorial Bridge is speaking out. “We are shocked and horrified at his heinous murder,” the Hinds family said in a statement issued by the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID).

Sven was born on June 28, 1979 in Guyana, South America, and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1987.

“Sven was a good son, father and brother; a loving, courteous, intelligent human being, and an industrious entrepreneur. He owned the clothing lines - Brooklyn Fly, Money Making Men and AGEIZM. His My Space page is http://www.myspace.com/moneymakinmen.”

The statement said the young man’s family was concerned that Sven had not been in communication with them for a number of weeks, but did not raise an alarm as Sven resided on his own in Queens, New York, and frequently traveled to promote his clothing.

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