By News Source Guyana on October 21, 2020
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force has issued wanted bulletins for two men who are believed to have been involved in cases of fraud. In a statement the police Force said 46-year-old James Ragnauth of Leonora ECD is wanted for questioning in relation to allegations of obtaining by false pretence. The man allegedly committed the fraudulent act […]
By News Source Guyana on October 20, 2020
Crime, News
The Director of Public Prosecutions has decided to withdraw the charge of larceny which Attorney General Anil Nandlall was facing in the Courts over the the alleged theft of law books belonging to the state. When the matter was called in Court for hearing, the Magistrate informed the Court that the matter has been withdrawn […]
By News Source Guyana on October 19, 2020
Crime, News
Months after an attempt was made on his life, a Kitty man was shot dead in Sophia on Saturday night by two gunmen. 27-year-old Seon London aka “Gaza” was sitting with a friend outside a yard in C’ Field Sophia when the two gunmen, both armed with handguns, appeared and started shooting at him. The […]
By News Source Guyana on October 14, 2020
Crime
The Guyana Police Force is seeking at least four suspects who it believes are responsible for a daring armed robbery at the Eugo Supermarket in Melanie on the East Coast of Demerara last evening. After attacking the owner of the business, the armed men carted off $1.4 million in cash, the surveillance video recorder, and […]
By News Source Guyana on October 14, 2020
Crime
A Durban Street taxi driver and a woman from A-Field Sophia have been taken into custody after more than 30 pounds of marijuana was found stashed in the car they were in. A Police statement said the two were held at a roadblock on the Mahaicony Public Road on Tuesday afternoon. The Police conducted a […]
By News Source Guyana on October 13, 2020
Crime, News
Chairperson of the People’s National Congress Reform, Volda Lawrence has been detained by the Police for questioning as investigators continue their probe into allegations of fraud at the March elections. Lawrence turned up at the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Force this morning for questioning but the investigating officers were a no show at […]
By News Source Guyana on October 12, 2020
Crime, News
A 23-year-old gold miner who was arrested for the rape and murder of a Venezuelan woman at a mining camp in Region Seven is facing an additional murder charge for the death of another woman back in May. The accused Joshua Connell appeared before Magistrate Christel Lambert in at the Bartica Magistrate Court today and […]
By News Source Guyana on October 12, 2020
Crime, News
A 26-year-old woman from Belvedere village Corentyne became one of the country’s latest road accident victims on Sunday. The woman, Radha Shivcharran was the pillion rider on a motorcycle when the rider, Kenny Teakadharry, lost control and slammed into the steel rail at the side of the road along the Seawell public road in Berbice. […]
By News Source Guyana on October 11, 2020
Caribbean & International, Crime, News, Politics
A Guyanese man who was held at New York’s JFK Airport with more than 4 pounds of cocaine in his suitcase back in 2018, has filed a multi-million lawsuit against Caribbean Airlines after investigators concluded that the cocaine was placed in his bag after he checked it in. 50-year-old Simeon Wilson traveled from Guyana to […]
By News Source Guyana on October 9, 2020
Crime, News
A Barbadian national, who was among a group of Guyanese and Barbadians busted on a cargo vessel with over 150 pounds of marijuana pleaded guilty today to drug trafficking and was sentenced to four years in jail and fined $51.5 Million. Four of the six men who were arrested earlier this week at a city […]