Toronto — Guyanese born, Dr. Vivian Srinivas Rambihar was honoured by the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC) on Saturday June 14th with the Humanitarian of the Year Award in front of 1000 people at the ICCC's Annual Gala. The award was presented on behalf of the Chamber by India's Minister of Science, Technology and Earth Science, Hon. Kapil Sibal and Canada's Minister of Human Resource and Skills Development, Hon. Monte Solberg.
Dr. Rambihar has contributed to two important paradigm shifts seeing the heath and societal needs of Indo-Canadians differently and rethinking our perspective of the world and how things change, both with tremendous implications globally. From research in 1990, he started and sustained the movement in North America to describe and change the heart health risks of South Asians with ideas and experiences transferable to all people of Indian origin.
Dr. Rambihar's notable achievements include being the founder of the Heart Health of South Asians movement in North America. He has also done groundbreaking work introducing the concept of Ethnicity and Health to Canadian cardiology. He is also a pioneer in the field of Chaos and Complexity Science, being the first in the world to apply it to medicine and health, including using health promotion in Indo-Canadians.
Dr. Rambihar has independently discovered and developed this idea and is now extending it to society as a new science for poverty reduction, peace, health and development.
His contributions have been particularly valuable to the Indo-Canadian and South Asian community, and his ideas will most likely be pivotal in dealing with the increasing complex health and other issues facing people of Indian Origin across the Diaspora, as well as all humanity.
Dr. Rambihar was a Guyana scholar in 1969 for academic achievement, winning a full scholarship to study medicine and completing his MD from McMaster University in 1975. He is also past president of the Medical Staff, member of the Board of Governors and Medical Advisory Committee at Scarborough General Hospital.
In 2007 Dr Rambihar received the Community Service Award from the Guyana Awards Committee for his achievements, his pioneering work and his service to the community.

 

Georgetown — The Joint Services are in hot pursuit of Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins, the wanted criminal believed to be the mastermind behind the gruesome murders at Lusignan and Bartica earlier this year, and his band of marauding killers.
Kaieteur News reported on Tuesday that two gang members were shot dead the day before by the Joint Services at Goat Farm, a community on the left bank of the Berbice River. The men were identified as Cecil Simeon Ramcharran, 54, also known as ‘Uncle Willie,’ and a man identified as ‘Chung Boy.
The two, along with 'Fine Man' and a suspected two others had eluded the Joint Services from the time they fled the camp at Christmas Falls on June 6 when police raided their hideout and killed one gang member - 21-year old Otis Fiffee, called 'Mud Up' - in an exchange of gunfire. The two men reportedly crossed the Berbice River and hijacked a minibus near Goat Farm, a community located about seven miles from Ituni, where they were shot by the Joint Services.
The ranks recovered two AK-47s along with a large quantity of ammunition and a credit card belonging to the late Agriculture Minister Satyadeow ‘Sash’ Sawh on the body of the slain 'Uncle Willie'. Kaieteur News reported that earlier, the Police captured a 15-year-old lad who admitted to being a member of the 'Fine Man' gang that was hiding out at Christmas Falls.
The report quoted an official saying that the teen, when arrested at Ituni, Upper Demerara, was in a delirious state and starving. He readily co-operated with investigators, it was reported.
The news report stated that the teen admitted that he was with the gunmen who came under attack at their Christmas Falls hideout two Fridays ago. He identified some of the gang members, including the now dead ‘Uncle Willie, also called ‘Limpy,’ and ‘Chung Boy.’
The paper stated that the youth claimed gang members made a raft out of ‘conga pump’ and crossed the Berbice River at a location below Christmas Falls and Itabu Falls. They allegedly then walked for about three days through very rough terrain. The youth said that he was unable to keep up with the gruelling pace and was eventually left behind.
Meanwhile, the Police have captured two men whom, they say, are top lieutenants of fugitive Rondell 'Fine Man' Rawlins. According to Kaieteur News, while it is unclear when and where the men were captured, they were held and interrogated under tight security for several hours last Sunday at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary. The newspaper also reported that there was heavy security at the Brickdam Police Station, where the high-profile prisoners are expected to be incarcerated.
According to the report, one of the captured men is said to be a suspect in several murders, including the August 30, 2007 murder of businessman Kumar Singh, called ‘Mango Man,’ who was shot dead at his Cove and John, East Coast Demerara home and the murder of nine-year-old Christine Sukrah, of Coldingen, East Coast Demerara who was shot while lying under her bed after gunmen had fired several shots at the family’s home. He is also reportedly connected to the attacks on Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, and the East La Penitence Police Station.
Following the police raid of the criminals' hideout at Christmas Falls on June 6, ranks recovered three FN rifles, four shotguns, and a .32 revolver; two AK-47 magazines, seven FN rifle magazines, and several rounds of ammunition which the gunmen abandoned as they fled their hideout. A police statement claimed that the three FN rifles were stolen from the Bartica Police Station during the armed attack on that community on February 17, 2008, while the .32 revolver and two of the shotguns were stolen from the home of Bartica miner Chunilall Babulall. A diary which provided “incontrovertible evidence” of Rawlins’s planning and execution of the killings at Lusignan and Bartica was also reportedly found by the JS ranks.
According to the Police Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins had also planned to take revenge for the death of his sister, Marcyn King, who was shot dead as she was returning home from her place of employment, on March 10 last.
The police statement said that the diary also contained several telephone numbers. The police have since detained a woman who was identified in the diary. The woman is reported to have denied any association with Rawlins and said that she had lent her phone to a soldier who may have made the call to the fugitive.
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee said the gunmen "are on a survival run. The odds are that they will not survive."