Beekham confesses to threatening Opposition Leader

Facebook death threats

Following his arrest on Monday for meting out death threats against Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo along with other People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) parliamentarians on his Facebook page, Berbice

resident Tameshwar Beekham has since confessed to the act.

Beekham has been on a rant recently, via his Facebook page, speaking about “assassinating” the Opposition Leader, who is also a former President, as well as several other party members.

Guyana Times was told that the man was arrested and detained at the Springlands Police Station on Monday following Police searches in the area. He was then transported to Georgetown and handed over to Police at the Criminal Investigations Department, where he was questioned in connection to his Facebook threats.

According to Police sources, the man has confessed to investigators and the matter will now have to be sent for advice.

“He admitted to the threats on Facebook and so the next step is for us to take file to get legal advice on whether we should proceed with instituting charges,” a Police source related to this newspaper on Tuesday.

Beekham took to his Facebook page, where he ranted over the idealisation of the APNU/AFC Government’s accomplishments and visions of former President, LFS Burnham, and openly stated his intentions to target Freedom House and kill Jagdeo and several PPP/C members.

According to the man’s his Facebook page, he had encounters with the Police in relation to the same issue, but was not desisting from his ranting.

B Division (Berbice) Commander and Assistant Commissioner, Ian Amsterdam had previously indicated that ranks in Berbice were searching for Beekham. However Beekham was still continuing, posting on Sunday, repeating his death threats.

Just recently, Police had detained a 52-year-old woman, who allegedly posted racially-inciting social media comments about African Guyanese, and what appeared to be threats to President Granger.

The woman has since been charged for attempting to excite hostility on the grounds of race contrary to Section 2 (1) (C) of the Racial Hostility Act, Chapter 23:01 of the Criminal Offences Act. Her Facebook post stated that “Granger want a bullet in head…I am out of a job now because of them.”