By News Source Guyana on December 15, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
Police investigators are probing the attack of a Police rank at State House, which is the official residence of the President. The man, who has not been named, reportedly approached the security booth and the Police rank at around 7:30 this morning and told him that he wants the President. A Police statement said the […]
By News Source Guyana on December 13, 2022
Crime, News
The lifeless bodies of State Counsel Asasha Ramzan and her boyfriend Peter Charles were found this morning in a parked Nissan X-Trail Sport Utility Vehicle along the roadway in Belle West, Canal # 1. Police sources have indicated that both bodies bore gunshot wounds. The woman’s body bore two gunshot wounds, while the man’s body […]
By News Source Guyana on December 8, 2022
Crime, News
The niece and neighbour of 85-year-old Sumintra Sawh were today jointly charged with the woman’s murder. The niece, 37-year-old Roshanie Basdeo and neigbour, 48-year-old Mohammed Shaheed, were not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder charge. Although the two have been jointly charged, they did not appear in Court together. Basdeo had earlier […]
By News Source Guyana on December 8, 2022
Crime, News
The gold miner, who is accused of launching a vicious attack on two brothers at a mining camp in Aurora on Tuesday, leaving one of the brothers dead and the other nursing wounds, has been arrested. Police Commander of Region Seven, Senior Superintendent Dion Moore told News Source that the murder suspect was arrested and […]
By News Source Guyana on December 6, 2022
Crime, News
A 32-year-old gold miner from Linden, was hacked to death at an interior mining camp and his younger brother, who also worked as a miner, has been left fighting for his life. The two were attacked by another miner. According to information from the Aurora mining area in Region Seven, the two brothers were viciously […]
By News Source Guyana on December 5, 2022
Crime, News
Three days after he was arrested along with three others for being in possession of more seven pounds of cocaine and just over three pounds of marijuana, a Georgetown man has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges. 28-year-old Charlestown resident, Javen Ragnauth, appeared before the Chief Magistrate today and pleaded guilty to being in possession […]
By News Source Guyana on December 5, 2022
Crime, News
The Government has procured a $50.5M analysis workflow system for the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory, Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn told the Committee of Supply today, as he sought approval for advances taken from the Consolidated Fund. In defending the purchase, Minister Benn said the machine will boost the DNA testing capability of the […]
By News Source Guyana on December 5, 2022
Crime, News
Police and GPL Emergency crews were summoned to the Success Squatting area this morning after a couple was found electrocuted in an alleyway, leading to their home. The two dead persons were identified by relatives as Saroujnie Hansraj and Prahalal Jagnarine. The woman worked as a nurse while the man operated a taxi. The bodies […]
By News Source Guyana on December 2, 2022
Crime, News
Days after she initially claimed that her 85-year-old aunt, Sumintra Sawh was stabbed and beaten to death by armed robbers, 35-year-old caretaker Roshanie Basdeo was this morning charged with her aunt’s murder. The West Coast Berbice woman appeared before Magistrate Peter Hugh and was not required to enter a plea to the charge that on […]
By News Source Guyana on December 2, 2022
Crime, News
Justice Gino Persaud this afternoon ruled that there were no grounds for the Police Service Commission (PSC) to withdraw from the case challenging the legality of the suspension of former Chairman of the PSC, Paul Slowe and the other Commissioners, as he dismissed two interlocutory applications filed by the Attorney General and the PSC. “There […]