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As more questions are being raised about the shooting deaths of three suspected bandits on the seawalls last Thursday, the acting Police Commissioner, David Ramnarine is in support of the action of his officers and told reporters this morning that he is convinced their use of deadly force was justified. According to Ramnarine, while the […]
Crime Chief, Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Williams this afternoon told News Source that the Guyana Police Force is still to find any criminal record for Kwame Assanah, who was one of the three men gunned down by Police ranks yesterday on the seawalls during an apparent shoot-out. Assanah was the driver of the black car […]
The wife of one of the three men shot dead by the Police yesterday afternoon on the seawalls said she is not buying the Police report that her husband was one of the suspected bandits. Thirty-seven year old Kwame Assanah was among the three men, the Police said, were shot dead after engaging undercover ranks […]
Popular beautician and make-up artiste Lolita Callendar appeared in Court this afternoon and was charged with assaulting Malika Holder. Appearing before the Principal Magistrate, Callendar entered a not guilty plea and was granted bail in the sum of $30,000 on the assault charge. However, she was taken back into custody by the Police as she […]
In a statement, the Guyana Police Force this afternoon confirmed that the three men shot dead by undercover police during a shoot-out on the seawalls were bandits who were trailing a bank customer. In a statement the Police said that at around 10:30hrs, based on information received from ‘operatives’ performing duty in the vicinity of […]
Drama unfolded in High Court today, as a young mother was found guilty of killing her two children by feeding them rat poison. The 25-year-old woman, Awena Rutherford, collapsed as the jury returned the guilty verdict on two counts of manslaughter. When the verdict was read out, Rutherford fell backwards, hitting her head against the […]
With overwhelming support from her fellow Councillors, Patricia Chase – Green was today re-elected for the third consecutive year to serve as Mayor of the City of Georgetown. She was unopposed for the post. But the upset at Thursday afternoon’s City Council elections came when serving Deputy Mayor Lionel Jaikaran failed to even secure a nomination for […]
Three suspected bandits believed to be trunkers were shot dead this afternoon along the seawalls road behind the GNS Ground. Persons working nearby said they heard multiple gunshots and when the shots ended, the bodies of the three men were sprawled on the roadway with Police ranks nearby. A senior Detective at the scene said […]
The unemployment rate for persons aged 15 and above in Guyana currently stands at 12%, according to the 2017 Third Quarter Report of a continuous Labour Force Survey which was released by the Bureau of Statistics on Thursday. The Report said the situation for women was substantially worse than that of men compared at 15.3% versus 9.9%. […]
Several mini-bus operators took their buses to the Square of the Revolution this morning as part of a protest against the Guyana Police Force and its crackdown on those buses with colourful wraps around them. The Police Traffic Department has revoked the road license for a number of the buses, warning the drivers that the […]
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