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A murder-suicide case in the Essequibo coast village of Riverston has left family members devastated and a community in shock. This morning Police investigators rushed to a rice field in the Riverston area after a woman filed a complaint that her daughter was being threatened by her reputed husband who was a Police officer. By […]
As Police investigators widen their probe into the theft of $400 million worth of raw gold from the home of a Mahaica businesswoman, the Police Force issued wanted bulletins today for three additional suspects in the case. Wanted bulletins were issued this afternoon for 22-year-old Mark Singh of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, 27-year-old Andray Duncan […]
Marijuana remains the most trafficked drug in Guyana with the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) seizing approximately 2200 kilograms of cannabis during the first six months of 2022. That illicit drug is followed by cocaine. Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), James Singh, in his mid-year report disclosed that during the first quarter of 2022 […]
Berbice resident Andrew Samuel Sealey has been taken into custody by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit after he was busted on Tuesday with more than three and a half kilograms of marijuana in his possession. The 29-year-old man was arrested in New Amsterdam with a large bag carrying five parcels of marijuana. The man and his […]
Although criminal charges were filed by the Police over the theft of $400 million worth of raw gold from a Mahaica home by a construction worker and the involvement of others in its sale, the Police Force has shielded the identity of the virtual complainant in the matter. Senior officials of the Police Force have […]
An early morning row in the East Coast Demerara village of Ann’s Grove has left a 21-year-old young man and his father dead in a case of murder-suicide. The father’s reputed wife is currently hospitalised in a critical condition. According to reports, the father, Leon Bobb began his rampage by attacking his son Seon Scott […]
More than nine months after more than $400 million worth of raw gold was stolen from a Mahaica businesswoman, the Major Crimes Unit of the Guyana Police Force has launched an investigation. Two persons were charged today in connection with the heist. In a statement this afternoon, the Police Force confirmed the arrest of a […]
As Guyana wages a war on drugs, 28 drug traffickers have been convicted for a number of drug-related offences so far for this year while more than 60 persons have been charged during the first-half of 2022. In the mid-year report of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), it was noted that during the second quarter […]
28-year-old taxi driver Troy Griffith of Mocha Arcadia was remanded to jail on Monday after being charged with the murder of another taxi driver, 41-year-old Quincy Weekes. Griffith appeared at the Diamond Magistrates’ Court where the indictable charge was read to him. He was not allowed to enter a plea to the charge which stated […]
Three men and a teenager were arrested on Saturday during a Joint Services operation in the Berbice riverain community of DeVeldt that unearthed a large marijuana farm. During the operation, the members of the Joint Services discovered over six acres of marijuana plants being cultivated. The Police said more than 15,000 marijuana plants and over […]
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