By Rickford Burke- PPP online news publication Guyana Daily News (GDN), on Sunday, October 6, 2024, published an article titled “No evidence to support allegations against Guyana Police Force acting Deputy Commissioner, Ravindradat Budhram.”
The GDN article seems to be a response to a Kaieteur News article on, Saturday October 5, 2025, titled” Senior Cop accused of sharing police intelligence with suspects in ‘Bricks’ abduction case.”
The Kaieteur News article alleged that a senior Officer with the Guyana Police Force “allegedly shared Police operation details with suspects in the Joshua David abduction case and advised the wanted men to surrender in order to save himself.”
The Kaieteur News article further stated that the said corrupt officer might have known “more than detectives about David’s abduction because of his alleged friendly acquaintance with the suspects. Investigators believe that he was allegedly keeping them updated with new developments on the police search for the abducted man.”
In essence, the criminals allegedly had an inside man in the Guyana Police Force who was helping them evade the Police.
Earlier last week, Guyana Police sources disclosed to CGID, and two prominent journalists, that a senior Guyana Police officer is allegedly deeply connected to the criminal underworld. Sources further alleged that the senior officer has been sharing significant Police information with criminals, thereby compromising various investigations and putting the lives of Police Officers at risk.
They accused the snitch officer in senior Police leadership of providing the criminals with Police sources and methods, law enforcement and crime fighting strategies and operations, as well as names of officers conducting certain Investigations.
The Police sources confirmed that investigators shockingly discovered the officers phone number in several criminals’ mobile phones along with text message exchanges in which one gang member referred to the senior Guyana Police official as “boss.”
The Kaieteur News article corroborates the information provided to CGID by its Guyana Police sources. The Kaieteur News expressly said that the senior Cop is being accused of sharing police intelligence with suspects in the recent ‘Bricks’ abduction case.
Moreover, last weekend several independent media outlets in Guyana reported that a senior cop attempted to obstruct the “Bricks” kidnapping investigation by ordering investigators to halt their investigation over the weekend and to resume the following Monday.
Investigators, the sources said, believe that this obstruction was orchestrated to facilitate the movement of the criminals with the abductee and/or with his body.
Police sources further said that the senior officer’s phone number was found stored in the phones of several wanted criminals and multiple criminal gang leaders. Clearly this senior officer, whomever it is, is himself an apparent rotten, corrupt cop and a notorious criminal.
This is nothing new in the PPP government. Under Bharrat Jagdeo’s presidency, journalists and the US government uncovered concrete evidence that Jagdeo’s then Minister of Home Affairs (National Security), Ronald Gajraj, was the head of a gang that was involved in murder for hire, extrajudicial killings, kidnappings and drug and gun trafficking. The US government had to sanction Jagdeo’s government in order to force Jagdeo to fire his criminal Minister.
ENTERS THE GUYANA DAILY NEWS: What is alarming about the GDN article is that it rushed out and named Ravindradat Budhram, when none of the other referenced articles mentioned him. Was this an obvious preemptive self-defense that has now exposed Budhram as the guilty culprit? Perhaps! Regardless of whatever their intended strategy was, GDN has done an epic disservice to Budhram!
Even more alarming is the GDN’s sterile claimed that the Kaieteur News report on Sunday, as well as the social media articles, “did not provide any form of credible evidence to substantiate the claims. Evidence that could stand up in a court of competent jurisdiction.”
In other words, if the snitch officer discussed above is Ravindradat Budhram, the standard for the PPP government to launch an investigation is that the media must provide the constitutionally mandated investigating agencies, the President and government, with evidence beyond a “reasonable doubt.”
Anyone proffering such nonsense as the standard to investigate Police corruption in Guyana is complicit with such corruption and is creating smokescreens to obscure standard operating systems, and incriminating evidence to make an investigation impossible.
The Daily News refused to condemn the alleged corruption and or call for an inquiry, regardless of who it is. Instead, the entity defended Budhram, then commenced functioning as Budhram’s publicist. Of course, Mr. Budhram is entitled to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. However, the presumption of innocence cannot negate the necessity of an investigation into such serious allegations.
The GDN article proceeded to tout and market Budhram’s “questions” as evidence which presumably makes him purportedly devoid of corruption or renders him incorruptible – an astonishing insult to the collective intelligence of the nation.
The Daily News claimed that: “Mr. Budhram is well qualified and respected in his field of law enforcement work. The DC graduated with a degree in law from the University of Guyana and has numerous overseas training in intelligence and other areas. He is also the holder of a Master’s degree.”
The rancid Budhram “snake oil” which the Guyana Daily News is attempting to sell us is so laughable that it fails the common sense test and is an embarrassment to journalism.
The nation doesn’t care about his “questions” and law enforcement experience. The concern is whether or not he is the “boss” of certain criminals, as one gang member allegedly referred to him, and has been providing Police information to criminals as his own colleagues in the GPF have alleged? It is this simple!
The Guyana Daily News cannot answer this question, no matter how hard they try to absolve their confederate in their ethnic supremacy fraternity.
The reason the image of the Guyana Police Force is in tatters and for its loss of the public’s trust is because the Force is an elaborate criminal enterprise.
The PPP government is equal in culpability and liability, because when these types of criminal conduct and ethical breaches are discovered and exposed, they are covered up by the PPP government in the name of ethnic supremacy and the preservation of the PPP’s criminal enterprise.
The Guyana Police Force is so dangerously tainted that it has become a cancer on the society.
All Guyanese must unite and demand an immediate and independent investigation. These allegations are too serious to ignore.
The nation deserves to know if a deadly and notorious criminal accomplice is occupying the position of Deputy Commissioner of Police.
If the allegations are false, then Ravindradat Budhram’s name must be cleared. Only an independent investigation can establish the facts upon which this determination can be made.
