…Director Erskine says the manhunt by the Joint Services is ongoing
DIRECTOR of Prisons, Dale Erskine, yesterday told the Guyana Chronicle that following the June 10, 2011 jailbreak in which four inmates of the New Amsterdam Prison escaped, there has been no report of any sightings of the men. He added though that the Joint Services operation in the manhunt of the men is still active.
Since the jailbreak, the Joint Services launched a massive manhunt after the four inmates were discovered missing from the New Amsterdam Prison shortly before 7:00 hrs last June 10.
The men at large are 32-year-old Kevin ‘Long Hair’ Narine, also known  Ram Sookdial, and Ayodhiaram, of  Number Seven Village, West Coast Berbice; Rickford La Fleur, also known as Rickford Williams, 35, of Circle Street, Skeldon; Vijay Seenarine called Vijay, 33, of Little India, also from Skeldon; and Vinood Gopaul, 19, of Lot 34 Yakusari, Black Bush Polder.
Narine was recently sentenced to nine years imprisonment for robbery under arms on the high seas; La Fleur was remanded on two separate murder charges and two counts of drug trafficking, while Seenarine and Gopaul are also on remand, the former charged with carnal knowledge and the latter with murder.
Gopaul had previously broken out of the same prison with others in 2007, also while on remand.
Local police, seeking public assistance to recapture the escaped quartet, are asking anyone who may have information leading to their arrest to telephone numbers 333-2151-4, 333-2191, 333-3502, 333-3876, 225-6411, 226-6978, 911 or contact the nearest police station.
Informants have been assured of strict confidence.
The flight to freedom by the four follows that of Surinamese Paul Doerga, who is alleged to have been aided by prison officer Orlando Jaundoo.
Doerga, convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment and Jaundoo, a training instructor at the penal institution, were apprehended in Nickerie by Surinamese police on June 4.
Jaundoo has since been charged and is currently on remand awaiting trial, while Doerga is in Surinamese custody.