By News Source Guyana on May 8, 2023
Crime, News
Longtime Educator and popular theatre personality, Kirwyn Mars aka “Sir Mars” was killed on Sunday night outside an apartment building in Perseverance on the East Bank of Demerara, after he was mowed down by someone who was behind the wheels of his car. Police investigators are still working to piece together all the details of […]
By News Source Guyana on May 4, 2023
Crime, News
A Brazilian national who was arrested and charged in February for illegally operating and landing a helicopter in Guyana, has changed his plea for not guilty to guilty and has now been fined $5.5 million and sentenced to 48 months in jail. The man, Alexander Felix Plan appeared in Court on Wednesday for the continuation […]
By News Source Guyana on May 3, 2023
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force reported today that a post mortem examination conducted on the body of Sophia resident, Omar Ally, has revealed that he died of a heart attack. Ally was discovered dead in a room at the Quamina Guest House last Friday. A woman, with whom he shared an extra-marital affair, was seen jumping […]
By News Source Guyana on May 1, 2023
Crime, News
The wife and other family members of a 46-year-old man who was found dead in a Quamina Street, Georgetown Hotel on Friday afternoon, are calling on the Police to conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the man’s death. The lifeless body of Omar Ally was found in a room at the Quamina Guest […]
By News Source Guyana on May 1, 2023
Crime, News
Two teenage boys lost their lives in separate drowning incidents on Sunday in two different parts of the country. In Orealla village in the Corentyne River, Berbice, 14-year-old Nathaniel Nelson died early on Sunday morning while playing with relatives and friends in a creek. A police report said while the Line Path Secondary school student […]
By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2023
Crime, News, Politics
The Guyana Government intends to place significant attention on “Defence Diplomacy”, as it works to build up the country’s security architecture through partnerships. In his address at the Annual Police Officers’ Conference on Thursday morning, the President noted that the security architecture of a country is the bedrock through which development, sustainability, resilience and progress […]
By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2023
Crime, News
Acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken today reported to the Annual Police Officers’ Conference that serious crimes in Guyana have fallen by 8.4%, but he noted that the country continues to struggle to keep its roads safe, as there has been a 7% increase in road fatalities. “Last year, we managed to have a 19.5% […]
By News Source Guyana on April 27, 2023
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force has recorded a significant increase in road deaths since the start of the year. In response to queries from News Source, the Police Public Relations Department revealed that since the 1st January, a total of 31 persons lost their lives in road accidents and another 13 died in road incidents. The […]
By News Source Guyana on April 26, 2023
Crime, News
A relationship that started less than a year ago came to a bloody and gruesome end this morning when a 31-year-old Sophia woman was stabbed to death by her boyfriend at her home. The dead woman, Lisa Daniels, was stabbed multiple times to her body in her bedroom by her boyfriend, Meshack Benjamin. The Guyana […]
By News Source Guyana on April 25, 2023
Crime, News
Five years after his brother’s death, a Region One man was today remanded to jail for his own brother’s murder. 33-year-old Gordon Henry, who was arrested last week after being on the run for the past five years, appeared at the Port Kaituma Magistrates’ Court this afternoon where the murder charge was read to him. […]