The PPP appears to be surrendering Guyana to the criminal elements. They are either unable or unwilling to deal with these criminals, they are a sad example of a weak government. Why are there no special forces created to deal with the Buxton question? What is the PPP waiting on? Do they not understand the responsibility of governance? These are the questions that demand an answer from the people who elected this government.
Kidnapping
of child foiled
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the attempted
kidnapping of an 11-year-old student from the Strathspey Primary School
yesterday morning.
The student, a resident of the East
Coast Demerara village of Vigilance, was snatched from a
classroom in the school by two armed men around 10:25 am yesterday, a release
from the Police Public Relations Office said.
The statement said that after seizing the girl, the abductors ran in the
direction of the embankment with the student struggling and screaming.
At this point one of the kidnappers, said the police, was struck by a car, but
then got up and ran away.
Sources told this newspaper that the motorist involved had seen the girl
struggling and had challenged the men in his car.
After the collision, the girl managed to escape, and the abductors fired on
the driver, who had to take evasive action. They then fled, and it was when
they saw the police approaching that they opened fire on them too.
The police statement said that with the assistance of a GDF patrol, they had
exchanged fire with the men - who were fleeing through a short cut to Buxton -
in tbe Bladen Hall Multilateral school compound.
The kidnappers, however, escaped.
The victim, said the police, was subsequently returned to her home, and the
bicyles on which the men arrived were now in police custody.
Thursday, March 20, 2003
