–for 2015 murder of Hamson’s proprietor

TWO men were on Friday committed to stand trial at the High Court for the April 2015 murder of city businessman, Abdul Farouk Ghanie, proprietor of Hamson General Stores.

Kemo Tyron Evans of Water Street, Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara, and Floyd Anthony Rammit of Kaneville, also on the East Bank, were both committed to stand trial before a judge and jury for the capital offence, after the conclusion of a preliminary hearing before Magistrate Judy Latchman.

Particulars of the charge state that between April 15 and 16, at East Bank Demerara, Rammit murdered Ghanie, aka ‘Brother’, during the course of a robbery.
According to a police report, on April 15, the businessman left his Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara home to go to his place of business on Regent Street, and returned around 18:00hrs.

It further says that at around 20:00hrs, Rammit and Evans were seen beating a hasty retreat from Ghanie’s premises.
Then, at around 07:20hrs the following day, April 16, neighbours found the businessman lying at the back of his yard in a pool of blood, and with visible wounds to his left side chest and cheek.

The police were summoned, and found that the businessman’s firearm, cell-phone and other items were missing.
Ghanie was taken to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre, but was pronounced dead.
Evans had reportedly provided the police with a detailed statement on how he and Rammit robbed and killed Ghanie, after staking out the businessman’s Collingswood Avenue, Nandy Park residence.