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A most wanted man in St James, Oshane Earle, otherwise called ‘Motumbo’, was killed during an armed confrontation with members of the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigations Branch (C-TOC) during a targeted operation in Goshen, St. Elizabeth earlier on Wednesday evening, the police are reporting.

An illegal firearm was reportedly taken from him.

A 14-year-old girl was also rescued by the security force team during the confrontation.

Earle was featured on the police’s ‘Wanted Wednesdays’ social media platform earlier on Wednesday, October 5, 2022.

More details are to come on the development, the police have promised.

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A man stands near the Surrey River in Lopinot where Theresa Lynch was swept away on Wednesday. PHOTO BY SUREASH CHOLAI –

LOPINOT residents continued to hold out hope for a woman who was swept away by strong currents in the Surrey River, on Wednesday morning.

Newsday understands Theresa Lynch, 45, her brother identified only as William and two friends went to tend to their crops in McDavid Street, Surrey Village, Lopinot.

At around 10 am, Lynch and her brother tried to cross the river but both were swept away. While her brother was able to pull himself out of the river, Lynch had quickly disappeared under the water.

Her brother was taken to hospital for minor injuries where he remained warded up to Wednesday night.

Residents in the area called the police and fire service who initiated a search and rescue exercise for the woman.

Officers from the Fire Services’ Land, Search and Rescue Unit as well as volunteers from the Hunters Search and Rescue Team continued to search different parts of the Surrey River and surrounding forested areas for Lynch up to 6.30 pm.

Several residents in the area said Lynch who lived in La Pastora had been planting crops for about two years.

One of Lynch’s neighbours said she was known to be a good swimmer and hoped she survived the ordeal.

“It’s not a nice situation to be in. We live on the land here and we’ve never seen the river with currents so strong before.

“I really do hope she is found safely though,” the neighbour said.

Fire officers and hunters continued their search into the night time using torch lights and head lamps to try and find Lynch.

RESIDENTS

COUNT LOSSES

Residents and business owners on Lopinot Road, said they were taken by surprise by the flooding.

Residents said the heavy rainfall which began at around 9 am led to the swelling of a nearby river and flooding of homes.

AFTERMATH: People clean up mud outside Budget Bright Supermarket in Lopinot following heavy showers on Wednesday. – PHOTO BY SUREASH CHOLAI

Newsday visited Lopinot Road and spoke with business owner Chandai Singh whose grocery was flooded.

Singh has lived in the area for over 20 years and said this was the worst flooding she had seen in her time as a resident.

“We don’t get flooding anywhere near this level.

“It wasn’t just the grocery that was affected, we live on the same compound and all of the rooms were ruined from all the mud and flood water.”

Singh who opened the grocery two months ago said dealing with flooding so soon after opening her business was difficult.

A nearby bar was also flooded with the water level rising so high as to destroy a roulette machine.

One resident, Gayatri Singh who volunteered to help her neighbours clean up, said workers barely had time to leave before water began to flood the bar.

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Over in Kenya, a land with some forty-odd tribes (some VERY odd!!), they have our electoral problems in spades, since they gotta contend with seven times the combinations and permutations of matters that can be manipulated to fix the results!! Like us, free and fair elections were returned in 1992, and since then, they’ve gone through all the trauma of violence and resort to the courts etc, like us. But, to their credit, their interventions in the running of elections, like with Elections Commissions, Boundaries Commission and electronic voting – but mostly the law that elections petitions must be decided in FIFTEEN days – have served to bring peace, if not tranquility there.WE should take some lessons from the Kenyan elections’ playbook!! Cause here we are, more than two years after the five months it took to get our elections’ results to effect a change of Government, the Opposition’s still insisting that the PPP is an “illegal-installed-cabal” – repeated so frequently it’s now practically ONE word!! Now, we have also, like Kenya, recourse to the Courts when there are disagreements on elections’ results. But with us – even though this delay can precipitate the actual breakdown of the state, since the legitimacy of its governors is rejected – these petitions seem to drop into a legal black hole.The one the PNC filed in the 1997 elections wasn’t decided until 2001, by which time it was a moot point, since the PNC had battered the PPP into giving up two years of their term, and elections had been scheduled for that year!! In 2015, the PPP filed a petition after the results showed that the APNU/AFC coalition had won, but that was never heard until matters were overtaken by the 2020 elections, which had its own drama, that went to the CCJ several times!! And after the 2020 elections, which the losing APNU/AFC stoutly maintain that they wuz robbed, they filed not one, but TWO elections’ petitions.The first one – based on their allegations that the dead and emigrated had voted for the PPP – was thrown out by the Courts for the extraordinary reason that the APNU/AFC lawyers didn’t serve their leader Granger within the stipulated time!! The law, like the Lord – seems to work in mysterious ways!! That decision was appealed, and is before the CCJ, where one Justice snarkily remarked on our Courts’ foot-dragging on elections’ petitions!!The fate of the second petition – which claims the order for a Recount was illegal – was thrown out by the High Court, but the APNU/AFC’s move to the Appeal Court was in limbo, because both they and APNU/AFC left it there!! Yet, the APNU/AFC kept up the drumbeats that the petition would vindicate them!!Go figure!!…to cane farmers

In order to deliver some justice to Guyanese who’ve been damaged by the various plagues that have befallen us recently – COVID-19, floods, PNC depredations etc – the PPP Govt just doled out $44M in relief grants to 294 private cane farmers in Region Three. Now, we know that when the PNC shuttered Wales, some 40% of the cane supplied to that estate was from private farmers. And even though the PNC Government had promised to construct an all-weather road to transport their cane to Uitvlugt, that was never satisfactorily done.So, your Eyewitness wonders what this mere $150,000 per farmer – while better than nothing – would do. But there’s an even greater injustice that needs to be rectified: when the four estates were shuttered, there were 4700 workers directly hired by GuySuCo who each received their gratuity and grant. But what happened to the 2300 workers who’d been hired by the private cane farmers? Who’s looking after them?? If you prick them, do they not bleed?

…with HetmyerSomething’s definitely amiss with Hetmyer. There’s no question he’s a tremendous cricketing talent, but that doesn’t mean he’s not challenged, like the rest of us.There’s too much at stake for the GAW and WI Cricket team to leave him unattended.

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