By News Source Guyana on June 14, 2022
News
A security guard and two seamen were charged on Monday and remanded to jail for break and enter and larceny related to the theft of over $5million worth of braids and weaves from an East Coast Demerara bond. Security guard Trevon Williams appeared in Court this morning along with seamen, Marlon Campbell and Keron Williams […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
Crime, News
During a joint operation, today between the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit and the Enforcement Division of the Guyana Revenue Authority, a 48-year-old man was busted with a number of ecstasy pills. CANU said that during the operation at Corriverton in Berbice, the ranks intercepted a motor vehicle and during a search, four parcels containing 400 […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
Crime, News
A post-mortem examination conducted today on the body of the Golden Grove youth, Quindon Bacchus who was shot dead by the Police confirmed that he was shot six times. According to the dead man’s family, the post-mortem exam found that Bacchus was shot five times to the back and once to the chest. All six […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
News, Politics
Local businessman, Tamesh Jagmohan through his Attorney has filed a criminal complaint with the Guyana Police Force over a social media post of a documentary that paints him as a financier of the People’s Progressive Party and someone who has been involved in a number of alleged illegal activities. In a release, Mr. Jagmohan said […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
Letters, News, Politics
Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Opposition MP Jermaine Figueria today called out the government and particularly President Irfaan Ali for his administration’s failure to swear in members of the Public Procurement Commission. Although the National Assembly has given bi-partisan support of the five nominees to be appointed to the Commission, there has been no […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
Amid loud protests from residents of the East Coast Demerara village of Golden Grove this morning, Acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken visited the home of the 25-year-old man who was shot dead by the Police last Friday in Haslington. The Commissioner met with the mother and other relatives of Quindon Bacchus and expressed his sympathy […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2022
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force on Sunday afternoon announced that the Special Branch Police rank at the centre of the shooting death of Haslington youth Quindon Bacchus has been placed under close arrest as the Police Complaints Authority is set to investigate the incident. Bacchus was shot dead on Friday afternoon by the Special Branch Officer […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
The family of the Haslington youth, Quindon Bacchus, who was shot dead by the Police on Friday afternoon during an alleged armed confrontation, is calling for an impartial investigation to be conducted into the deadly shooting. The Guyana Police Force provided two versions of the events that led to the death of the 25-year-old man. […]
By News Source Guyana on June 10, 2022
News, Politics
Following two separate and unrelated violent incidents at the New Campbellville Secondary School and the Lodge Secondary School this week, the Ministry of Education with support from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Guyana Police Force has stepped up security at the two schools. This morning, students arriving for classes had their book bags […]
By News Source Guyana on June 10, 2022
Crime, News
A Haslington, East Coast Demerara family is crying out for justice following the Police shooting death of 25-year-old Quindon Bacchus. Details surrounding the latest Police shooting death are sketchy. However, in a brief statement, the Guyana Police Force claimed that a party of Police ranks was in the Haslington community when they saw a man […]