Crime

Guyana and Brazil ink agreement for security cooperation

Guyana and Brazil will be stepping up cooperation to fight transnational organized crimes. Earlier this week, the two countries signed an agreement for Inter-institutional cooperation. Guyana’s Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn signed the agreement on behalf of the Government of Guyana. In addition to providing for increased cooperation to combat transnational organized crime, it […]

Andrew Morgan remanded to jail over cocaine find

Eccles resident Andrew Morgan was this morning charged and remanded to jail over the alleged possession of more than seven pounds of cocaine. Morgan appeared at the Diamond Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to the cocaine trafficking charge. The Prosecutor’s case is that he was found with a large quantity of cocaine for the […]

Murder fugitive arrested moments before his wedding

A fugitive who was on the run for the past 20 years and was wanted for the murder of his wife, was arrested on Saturday afternoon just before he got the chance to say I do to a new wife. 51-year-old Jerome Fernandes was nabbed on  Saturday afternoon after Police investigators received a tip-off about […]

Man chopped to death after attacking Venezuelan woman

Police investigators in Region Three are probing the murder of a 34-year-old man, identified as Linsford Duguid. Three Venezuelan nationals are suspected of murdering the man after he attacked a Venezuelan woman. A police statement said the incident occurred at De Kinderen on the West Coast of Demerara early on Sunday morning. An eyewitness told […]