Headless corpse identified as 16-year old Neesa Lalita Gopaul

- three persons in Custody, including mother and stepfather

The headless corpse of a female found on Saturday has been confirmed as that of 16-year old Neesa Lalita Gopaul of Lot 13 A Lenora Public Road, West Coast Demerara. Reports are that three persons including, the teen’s mother and stepfather are in police custody following the brutal murder.

Neesa in happier times

            Police said that body of Gopaul is at a city mortuary awaiting post mortem as investigations are continuing.



Neesa Gopaul



Meanwhile, Gopaul relatives explained that since he death of Neesa’s father last year she started to become troubled and often complained about her stepfather, who moved in the home with her mother two weeks following the death of her father.

            Disclosure was also made that Neesa’s father who was a diabetic died under questionable circumstances last year. However, disputes surfaced immediately after as 16-year old Neesa became the sole beneficiary of the property, much to the annoyance of the stepfather, who is a known character to the police.

             

Police Commissioner admitted to CHI

Police Commissioner Henry Greene is currently a patient at the Caribbean Heart Institute having suffered heart related complications.
Reports are that Greene developed a breathing problem some time on Friday and was rushed to St Joseph’s Mercy Hospital before being referred to CHI. He was admitted on Friday afternoon and was found to be suffering from congestive heart failure, according to an attending physician.

Commissioner of Police, Henrey Greene

Congestive heart failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to the body’s other organs. This can result from narrowed arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle and lead to coronary artery disease and even high blood pressure.
The failing heart could keep working but not as efficiently as it should. People with heart failure are usually unable to exert themselves because they become short of breath and tired.
according to reports, the Commissioner was treated with heart medication which has since alleviated the problem to some extent.
Up to yesterday he was resting comfortably at CHI. He is expected to remain there for the next few days.  According to attending Cardiologist, Dr Ghansham Singh, the Commissioner is listed as stable.

Headless body of unidentified woman found in suitcase
- dumped in creek near Emerald Tower Resort

Police are trying to ascertain the identity of a woman whose headless body was discovered yesterday in a suitcase near the Emerald Tower Resort at Madewini, off the Soesdyke/Linden Highway.
             The fair-complexioned woman’s body was stuffed into a black briefcase, which was dumped into the Madewini Creek. A length of rope was wrapped around the body and the killer(s) had attached a heavy metal object to the other end of the rope in an effort to weigh the body down.
            The victim was wearing a pair of black shorts and a multi-coloured top.
            Detectives retrieved a passport (Number 0730108) bearing the name Teesa or Neesa Lalita Gopaul from the suitcase. A bank card was also found with the remains.
The gruesome find was made around noon by a family that had gone to the abandoned resort to swim in the Madewini Creek.
          The family while at the creek became aware of an unpleasant odour and observed the black suitcase in the water.
         Suspecting the worst, they immediately summoned a male relative who was in the area. The man said that he poked the suitcase with a stick and saw what appeared to be part of a body protruding from it.
He then summoned the police.
         The man and others suggested that the killer was familiar with the area and that he had taken his victim there by vehicle. The resort is about a mile off the highway and can only be accessed by a trail.
No blood was found at the crime scene.
         Porters from the Lyken Funeral parlour eventually removed the body around 17:00 hrs.
On March 13, the decomposed remains of Alpha Hotel owner Rosaline Hall were found wrapped in a tarpaulin near the resort.
       And last March, the body of 58-year-old Lambert Patrick Clarke was found along the Emerald Tower trail. A post mortem revealed that he had died from natural causes.

Stretch of road between Punt Trench Dam and Broad Street to be riveted to two way traffic
- to significantly ease traffic congestion

 The Ministry of Public Works has overlaid the La Penitence carriageway from Punt Trench Dam to Broad Street; in an effort to ensure a free and safe flow of traffic along the corridor. 
            According to Road and Traffic Safety Engineer, Ministry of Public Works and Communications, Nigel Erskine, the asphalt works to the road commenced on September 30 and was completed on October 1. The decision to return it into a two-way road came into effect after a successful meeting with Ministers of Transport and Hydraulics and Home Affairs, Robenson Benn and Clement Rohee respectively, and engineers from the Ministry in August.

Works to the two-way lane road at La Penitence

            When the Government Information Agency (GINA), took its cameras to the site, workers were painting two lanes 11 feet wide and ‘no parking signs’ on the western side.
            According to Erskine during the morning periods there is a tremendous build up of traffic from the Demerara Harbour Bridge leading into Georgetown and as such, the initiative is necessary to relieve traffic congestion and for the efficient discharge of traffic on the East Bank road into Sussex, Broad and Lombard Streets.
“Currently vehicles can only come into Georgetown through Lombard Street, but what we are trying to facilitate here is to have another alternative entrance into the city. The entire carriageway into Saffon Street has been overlaid to allow free movement to two lanes of traffic in either direction,” he said.
He noted that with the completion of the two lanes vehicles would now be allowed to come through Saffon Street and enter the city either from Sussex or Broad Streets using the secondary roads leading into the city, as was not possible previously.

Ministry of Public Works and Communications, Road and Traffic Safety Engineer, Nigel Erskine and Technical Engineer, Kester Hinds inspect a section of the La Penitence carriage way from Punt trench Dam to Broad Street

 The Road and Safety Engineer, pointed out that it anticipated that the project will significantly ease the traffic build-up, often occurred during the peak period of the morning.
The road has been a one way from 6 am to 6 pm for several years.
In line with the development, a meeting is scheduled for October 6 whereby stakeholders, stallholders and the business community will meet to discuss the way forward, as the intervention would require vendors to re-locate.
            They will be allowed to air their views and make suggestions pertaining to the new development.
             “We will however have to work out arrangements as to how vendors would be required to off-load their goods at the market. What we plan to do is rehabilitate the bridge on the northern side of the market, so that vendors would be able to off-load their goods,” he noted.