President Bharat Jagdeo has repeatedly accused the Kaieteur News of lying and misleading the nation with regards to this newspaper’s coverage of the hunt for the Fine Man gang at Christmas falls.He had indicated that at the time the Kaieteur News reported that the men were trapped and were no more than a day ahead of members of the Joint Services who were pursuing them,NBA Authentic Jerseys, the administration had already known that they were in the Ituni area.President Bharrat JagdeoBut from the records,Throwback Jerseys, the President and the security forces might be called upon to explain in detail how eight miners were killed at Lindo Creek some 80miles away.The bodies of the eight miners, who included Cedric Wong, Bonny Harry, Dax Arokium,Deion Jones Falcons Jersey, Compton Spires, Lance Lee, Horace Drakes and a teenager from Kwakwani,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, were discovered on June 21 2008 by the owner of the operations, Leonard Arokium.The police had conducted investigations and have concluded that the eight miners were killed by the Rondel Rawlins gang which had been uprooted from their safe haven at Christmas Falls along the Upper Berbice River.To support the theory, Police Commissioner Henry Greene had told the nation that an eyewitness had given an account of what transpired at the camp.According to Greene, the eyewitness claimed that a gang of men had invaded the camp and after bludgeoning the miners, they remained for a night during which time they cooked and ate food.The following day, the killers assembled the bodies and set them alight. All that remained were bones.But there still remain lingering doubts about this conclusion.For one, the owner of the mining camp,China Jerseys Cheap, Leonard Arokium, had suggested that the Rawlins gang could not have committed the act since they would have had to travel a significant distance over rough terrain from their Christmas Falls hideout to get to the camp, coupled with the fact that they were being hotly pursued by the Joint Services. Commissioner of Police Henry GreeneAlthough the exact date of the miners’ murder has not been established, it is widely believed that they were killed sometime between June 15 and the time of the gruesome discovery.On June 10 this newspaper carried an article captioned ‘trapped’ in which it was claimed by an officer of the joint services that the gang was cornered in the dense jungle of the Upper Demerara/Upper Berbice River.The following day Kaieteur News carried a follow up article captioned ‘broken trail highlights path of fleeing gunmen’ in which it was claimed that the gang had left evidence that they were heading in a southerly direction from Christmas falls and that they were no more than a day away from the pursuing joint services ranks.President Jagdeo described this as a lie since he claimed that at that time the joint services had already known that the men were at Ituni some 100 miles from their hideout at Christmas falls.Therein lies the contradiction.According to Leonard Arokium, it is unlikely that the men would have escaped in a northerly direction since they would have been heading towards the pursuing joint services party.Arokium is adamant that the gunmen would not have risked a confrontation with the security forces and would have avoided any contact with the heavily-guarded road.There were also previous statements that no economic activity was being conducted in the area.However, the camp owner had countered this by saying that the Joint Services knew of the existence of the camp.Then there is the question of the distance between the locations, according to persons familiar with the area supported by maps.Commodore Gary BestIf the gang was at Ituni, then they would have traveled close to 100 miles after killing the miners.There was the belief that the men had been killed and cremated on or around June 13 last year.The miners were scheduled to make a ‘wash down’ on June 15.A huge fire was reportedly sighted by an army helicopter at around June 10.Kaieteur News published the trapped report on June 11, the same time the president said that the gunmen were at Ituni.Given the distance and terrain,Cheap Jerseys Free, could the gunmen have been in Ituni by then and still have been able to return to Lindo Creek and kill the miners on or around June 13?If the Kaieteur News is lying then maybe there is still some explaining to be done by the Joint Services.
