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Burnham's joeboy, Shridath Surendranauth Ramphal. 

According to one email, he was not used, he was a member of the team.

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Dolly Baksh, her boyfriend, Tejpaul Singh (Tagepaul) and Manie Haniff were murdered by the former ruling party, the PNC.

Shridath Ramphal was a senior minister in Burnham's Obeah Government.

We should not forget the circumstances surrounding the murder of Dolly Baksh and her fiancée at Ogle foreshore. Dolly Baksh danced well at a special function at the Residence, sparking a haggling exchange between the Kabaka (Burnham)  and one of his militarists. Dolly Baksh and her fiancée were found decapitated commando style that same night after the function. 
  

        Dolly Baksh (left) and Sammy Baksh (right)

The girl's brother was popular singer Sammy Baksh and she lived at Delph street in Cambleville. She was a real Indian heart throb, a fairy, I remember reading about here as I am writing here it is all coming back. They described her as beautiful, tall and willowy Dolly who dances like she has no bones. She lived a decent life and dance just because she was talented that was her hobby only. She had 9 GCE subjects passed with several A's a naturally brilliant daughter was about to study medicine and her boyfriend engineering.

I was at Dolly Baksh's funeral at the La Repentair cemetry in 79 or 80 (not sure).   They said at the time, according to Muslim rites the coffin is not usually put down and open for viewing in the cemetry.  However, this funeral had such a huge crowd, people were insisting and begging for a glimpse of the late Dolly Baksh,  the darling of Indian dance during her time.    
 
Dolly's brother Sammy Baksh, a popular singer in Guyana in the 70's and 80's had no choice than to open up the coffin for the hundreds of fans and sympathisers who turned up to pay their last respects to be able to see for the last time, the belated Guyanese heart throb of Indian dancing.
 
So it was, a pouring of grief, shock and dismay as we all saw in her coffin what a beauty of a young lady she was.   One who was just snatched away innocently, a gorgeous Indian princess laid there robbed of precious life.  Dressed like a bride, reminded the mourners that she was not far off from performing marriage vows with a young Indo Guyanese boy who was also murdered by the demonic leaders who plucked her life away.  Black and blue marks of voilence easily spotted on her very fairly like face, marks of the Devil of Burnham notorious reign.  
 
Soon after the African President who was on tour from Africa at the time and was the last foreign guest along with Burnham attending the show in which she danced, left Guyana un-interrogated.   Burnham later suffered with cancer in his throat and died. 
 
The lovely Dolly still lives in the hearts of Guyanese.   God rest her soul.  Peace be unto Her.

Thanks for forwarding these comments to me. Can you forward the comments  to the folks at Guyana Under Siege?  I was at primary school and as a child saw Dolly Baksh perform at a school concert. Very soon after, as kids, we learnt of her death. My recollection of the whole episode is vague. We just heard that she and her boyfriend were murdered by the seawall. The photo that is being circulated is haunting. Also, as a primary school student, we had attended the funeral of Vincent Teekah. I will one day document all these recollections of the Burnham era through the eyes of a child.

 

Dolly Baksh,      age-less than   17 years,    Popular Indian dancer

We should not forget the circumstances surrounding the murder of Dolly Baksh and her fiancée at Ogle foreshore. Dolly Baksh danced well at a special function at the Residence, sparking a haggling exchange between the Kabaka (Burham) and one of his militarists. Dolly Baksh and her fiancée, Tejpaul Singh, were found decapitated commando style that same night after the function.

Her boyfriend, Tejpaul Singh (Tagepaul) he was a student at Guyana Technical Institute in Georgetown. Either himself or his dad was a school teacher I cannot remember. He hailed from Industry front on the east coast demerara. I think they were killed in 1979 or 1980 not sure. There were two African presidents who visited Guyana in close proximity around those days, Julius Nyrere and Joshua Nkomo. I believe is was not Joshua who visited. You have to get onto the newspapers like the Mirror they might have records for visits around those years or the crime.

Retired headmaster, Ganesh Singh, beaten and robbed 

Ramjit Singh, a retired headmaster, robbed