Deputy Head of CANU Lesley Ramlall told to proceed on all outstanding leave.

Deputy Head of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit, Lesley Ramlall was sent on his outstanding leave and it’s unlikely that he will return.
This comes days after the government rehired former Head of CANU James Singh to run the unit.
Singh was removed from CANU in 2017 by the APNU-AFC government following the findings of a commission of inquiry which was tasked to investigate the circumstances surrounding the entry into the interception, detention, and subsequent release of an unnamed private maritime vessel in the sea space of Guyana’s territory on or between the 11th-14th of February 2017.
Two days after that vessel was released, another vessel with four Guyanese was busted with 4.2 tons of cocaine by US and Trinidadian coast guards.
Ramlall was instrumental in the expansion of CANU which now affords the unit to have a presence across the coastline as well as interior locations.
During his time at CANU, Guyana has also seen significant reduction in the flow of narcotics in and out of Guyana. CANU was also able to develop greater relations with our regional and international partners and the coordination with international partners led to the arrest of a major trafficker from Guyana.

NYC mom took nap after tossing newborn out window, court docs claim

The Queens woman who tossed her newborn son out a bathroom window simply showered and took a nap afterward, according to court papers Tuesday.

Suspect Sabita Dookram, 23, cruelly ignored her gravely injured baby’s cries — which were caught on local surveillance tape — as his tiny body lay next to the garbage 5 feet below, prosecutors said.

Instead, the mom cleaned up the bathroom with a yellow towel — and when her sister-in-law told her she thought she heard a baby wailing outside, even then, Dookram kept silent, a criminal complaint says.

“I panicked and threw it out of the bathroom window,’’ Dookram allegedly told cops Sunday of her child.

“I did not check on the baby. I put my clothes in the laundry hamper in the bathroom, I showered and went to sleep.”

Dookram said she “cut the cord with a scissor from the bathroom’’ after giving birth in the bathtub Saturday evening, documents show.

“I had a baby out of nowhere,’’ insisted the suspect — even though she allegedly admitted she knew she was pregnant from a one-night stand around her birthday with a coworker at JFK Airport, where she works, at about five months.

“I went to the bathroom, and the baby popped out of me. I didn’t know what to do, I’m sorry,’’ Dookram allegedly told investigators.

The boy — referred to as “John Doe’’ by police Monday because he had yet to be named — weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces at birth and was full term, according to court papers.

He was immediately put on a ventilator at the hospital and “is still on life support in critical condition,’’ the papers say.

“He has numerous injuries including brain bleeding, swelling of his brain, skull fracture, internal damage and internal bleeding,’’ Assistant District Attorney Melissa Kelly said in court.

Kelly, in arguing for $50,000 bail for the suspect, noted that Dookram “is able to hold down a job.

“Meanwhile, she threw a full-term baby boy out of a window over 5 feet high’’ and left him “naked on the ground for several hours,” the ADA said.

“She is able to do her laundry. She is able to clean the bathroom … all while the child was crying,’’ Kelly said — adding that authorities have video surveillance “where we can hear the baby’s wails.”

The prosecutor claimed that Dookram made “numerous contradictory statements” to cops to cover up her heinous crime.

For example, the father of the child reportedly knew she was pregnant, but Dookram claimed she had recently miscarried, Kelly said.
The suspect told authorities she gave birth between 6 and 8 p.m. Saturday, court papers say.

A neighbor then heard “whimpering noises coming from outside her next-door neighbors’ home’’ around 10 a.m. Sunday, the documents say. “She went outside and observed a newborn baby boy lying naked on the ground next to the garbage.’’

A responding cop found “what appeared to be blood on the ground next to the garbage where the baby boy was found and on the side of the wall of the [home], leading up to the first floor bathroom window.

“He also observed blood in the window sill of said bathroom window, which is over feet from the ground,’’ according to the complaint.
Dookram appeared in court in a gray sweatshirt with “PINK” written in black letters across the front.

Her lawyer, David Guy, entered her plea of “not guilty.”

He agreed to the $50,000 bail, and the judge sealed the deal, ordering Dookram back in court Nov. 5.

Guy said his client’s family might put up their house to secure bail for her.

There is an order of protection against her preventing her from seeing her baby.

Dookram, asked by the judge if she understood the order of protection, replied, “Yes, I understand.’’

Source: New York Post – https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0XIQHQC9?pd=075V34hL&s=i0

Chair of the People’s National Congress Volda Lawrence was today released on $100,000 dollars station bail, hours after she was detained and taken into police custody.  

Lawrence is already before the courts where she is facing private criminal charges. Those charges were filed by Minister of Culture Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson Jr.  

This afternoon, Lawrence’s attorney Nigel Hughes said she was asked several questions by the police. He added that the investigators asked Lawerence about her passport signature and whether she knew Mr. Mingo. Hughes said the police presented some documents to her and inquired if the signatures on the documents were her’s .  He said throughout the interview lawrence remained silent.

Former Health Minister Volda Lawrence said she doesn’t know what to make of the line of questions posed to her. Lawrence was speaking with reporters outside of the Criminal Investigation Department shortly after she was released. Lawrence noted the questions the police were asking and said she wondered if the police took time out to read the various acts and provisions on which they operate as political appointees.

Soon after, Lawrence addressed supporters who had gathered beyond the barriers, updating them on the status of the investigation. 

This Morning Attorney Hughes said Lawrence was invited to be at the Criminal Investigation Department at 11 hrs by investigators, but when they arrived the investigative ranks were not present. 

Lawrence is expected to return to the CID Headquarters tomorrow at 8:00 hrs for further questioning.  

Queens based Guyanese woman accused of throwing newborn out of bathroom window

A woman has been arrested after allegedly throwing her newborn infant out of a bathroom window at Ozone Park in Queens, moments after giving birth. Remarkably the newborn boy survived and remained in critical condition, suffering hypothermia (the condition of having an abnormally low body temperature, typically one that is dangerously low).

The baby boy who was discovered with his umbilical cord still attached in the alleyway of the Queens home remains in critical condition.

The 23-year-old mother, Sabita Dookram, has since been taken into custody. The baby was discovered with his umbilical cord still attached outside a home at 126th Street in South Ozone Park, Queens, at around 10:15 am, on Sunday, October 11.

Investigators learned that Dookram had just given birth in the bathtub, then tossed the baby out from the bathroom window. The newborn remains hospitalized and his condition is improving at Cohen Children’s Medical Center. Dr Peter Silver, medical director at the hospital, told CBS2 that it’s important to remember the Abandoned Infant Protection Act or Safe Haven Law is designed to prevent situations like this. “What that law states is that parents can anonymously turn over an unwanted baby, as long as they do it in a safe way and the baby is not injured, up to 30 days of age. Again, as long as the baby is cared for and somebody knows the baby is there,” Silver said.

A woman who lives next door said she stepped outside her house on Sunday morning to empty the trash when she heard a baby crying. “I went to close the gate and I heard a noise. I looked and see it’s a baby noise” she told NBC. Through tears, she said the baby did not have a blanket or any other covering. Another neighbor said the baby was “still moving” when he saw it, as it was being taken by authorities. “For something like that to happen, it’s heartbreaking man. It’s heartbreaking,” he told NBC.

Who is Sabita Dookram?

Dookram underwent psychological evaluation at the Jamaican Hospital in New York City, after the incident. According to a New York Post report, she was hit with seven criminal charges. Those charges include attempted murder, attempted manslaughter, assault, reckless endangerment, tampering with physical evidence, abandonment of a child and acting in a manner to injure a child, police said.

A next-door neighbor said Monday that she knows the baby’s mother but “didn’t notice she was pregnant.” She added that she is unaware of a husband in the picture.

As soon as the news of the incident came in limelight, people started slamming Dookram for the hideous act, as one internet user shared her picture and wrote, “Why? Queens mom throws newborn baby out window – South Ozone Park window.… #Sabita Dookram #South Richmond Hill.” While one angry Netizen wrote, “That sabita dookram bi**h deserves to burn in hell.” While another one wrote, “That cold-blooded serpent offspring at it again. We can’t expect them to love, not even each other.”

Source: News Break – https://meaww.com/who-is-sabita-dookram-mom-baby-thrown-out-window-street-umbical-cord-attached-7-charges-crime-murder

Miner charged with two counts of murder and dumping bodies in a mining pits.

The suspect appeared in the Bartica Magistrates’ Court today where the charges were read to him via zoom.
Joshua Connell is said to have murdered two women and dumped their bodies in a sandpit.
When the matter was called in the Bartica Magistrates’ Court today, before Magistrate Christel Lambert, the suspect was not required to plea to the indictable charges.
According to a police report, Connell was arrested and escorted to the Bartica Police Station where a caution statement was obtained from him, in which he stated that on the night in question he had raped the deceased, Dimas Emilia Lezama Fermin, a Venezuelan national, at her camp. He told investigators that during the process, he strangled her with his hands because she resisted, after which, he threw her body in a pit aback of the camp.

Further, the police said that during the month of May, 2020, the body of one Rosella Smith was found in a pit at 3 miles Karrau Backdam. A PME later revealed that she had died from Asphyxiation due to drowning compounded by compression injuries to the neck.  The suspect was questioned in relation to this murder and admitted via caution statement to having choked the deceased and thrown  her body into a pit after they had gotten into an argument over some raw gold that she allegedly stole from him.
He was remanded to prison until December, 17th, 2020.