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Jul 03, 2014 News
Several persons have come forward with stories of allegedly being fleeced by a prominent
New Amsterdam municipal officer. The individuals all claimed that they paid the official large sums of monies to get legal paperwork done, but only have been getting the royal runaround.
Mrs. Kaisree Ramphal of Canefield, East Canje and Power of Attorney for landowner, Mr. Balkarran Samaroo, who resides in Ohio, USA, stated that she paid the official $200,000 since 2011 to investigate and correct a Deed of Gift for a property at Number Six Village, West Berbice. This deed was made fraudulently in Berbice.
“I showed [name of official] and he said, ‘yes, we can cancel this Deed of Gift, and get the property back into the man son’s name.’”
“He claimed that he does work with some lawyer…and he insisted that I pay him the monies,” Ramphal stated. “The man took the money and this man ain’t do nothing— $200,000—I have the receipts.” She has provided the receipts to this newspaper.
Ramphal stated that recently, the official has been refusing her telephone calls. “He only keep telling me ‘today’, ‘next month’, ‘the other month’.” She noted that the matter should have been finished by now, some three years later.
“The people from overseas, too, keep calling him and he not telling them anything. Last week, he got me like a fool….and he told me that some ‘Mr. Rodney coming up and that I could get him at 11 o’clock’. The man never showed up and I don’t know who Mr. Rodney is.”
“He’s a fraud! If by chance I get through, then he will give me some kind of lame excuse.” She stated that Mr. Samaroo is also frustrated about the matter and loss of all of the money.
Dhanmattie Jaikissoon, of Lot 74 Alness, Corentyne, stated that she consulted the official after her mother died and left the family in a land dispute. “He had to put in for a transport for me. He told me he will charge $180,000 and I will get the transport,” she added.
“When we pay him, he say in three months we will get it (the transport). But three, four and five months passed, and he said he had to go clear compliance and I had to give him $20,000 more…”
When she checked, he had made no application for any compliance. “This is over 10 years now and up to now, the transport is not here. Last year, he told me I had to pay $30,000 and I will get the transport and I gave him the money.
She then started to ask for refunds of all her monies but is encountering the royal runaround.
Jaikisoon is trying to get back all her monies paid to this official. However, she is claiming that the official owes her $100,000. “And when you calling, he cuts off the phone.”
“Every week is this week and next week. He said that his money gone to England and his daughter has to come and put his name in the bank, a whole set of ignorance.”
Then Mark Pooran, a weeder/grass-slasher of Vryheid, West Canje Berbice, claimed too, that he was also fleeced by the official for unpaid monies for weeding his compound.
“I does do work for he, and like for a period of time now he owing me and he ain’t paying me. Sometimes he gives me a piece and he leaves all the rest.”
“If he get $10,000 for me, he only giving me $2,000—this thing can’t work—I get four children and a wife, plus another child on the way,” Pooran complained.
Pooran claimed that the official still owes him $3,000 for slashing grass in his yard. I asked him for the money days ago and he told me to come back and when I go back, he does holler up on me.”
“I does go by his place and hear a lot of other people there cussing him up, saying that he didn’t do work on their transports and so on.”
When contacted, the Town Clerk of the New Amsterdam municipality, Ms. Sharon Alexander, was unaware of the allegations.
The official in question argued that he never accepted monies from the persons. However, he disclosed that the individuals may have transacted business with a lawyer who has his office at the bottom flat of his building at King Street, New Amsterdam.
That lawyer has since died, he claimed, and all of the matters pending have been “forwarded” to another lawyer in Georgetown. He refused to state the name of that lawyer and could not say when those persons would be repaid their money.
‘B’ Division Commander, Mr. Brian Joseph was unavailable for comment.
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