By News Source Guyana on July 8, 2022
Crime, News
Police Constable Sherwin Peters has been committed to stand a High Court trial over the shooting death of Essequibo businessman, Orin Boston. The preliminary inquiry into the matter has been completed and the Magistrate found that there is enough evidence to warrant a trial before a Judge and Jury. Peters was first charged in January […]
By News Source Guyana on July 7, 2022
Crime, News
26-year-old Mon Repos labourer Neman “Boyee” Persaud was today charged and remanded to prison for the murder of 86-year-old pensioner, Agnes Dillon. Persaud appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court this morning and was not allowed to enter a plea to the indictable charge of murder. He is accused of breaking into the home of the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 7, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
In an unprecedented move, the recently promoted Assistant Commissioner of Police who is also the Chairman of the Police Officer’s Association, Calvin Brutus has slammed the Court’s actions that seek to challenge the Police Service Commission and its work. Former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Paul Slowe last week moved to the Court to […]
By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2022
Crime, News
A member of the Guyana Defence Force was this morning charged with the murder of Berbice hairdresser, Donalesa Park. GDF Corporal Collin Hazel appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court and was not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder charge. The 32-year-old man was remanded to prison until the 23rd August when […]
By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
22-year-old Police Lance Corporal, Kristoff Denobrega appeared before the Chief Magistrate virtually this morning and was charged with the murder of Golden Grove youth, 25-year-old Quindon Bacchus. DeNobrega was not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder charge and was immediately remanded to jail. During the appearance, it was explained to the Court […]
By News Source Guyana on July 5, 2022
Crime, News
Three persons from the Berbice area are in the custody of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit after they were held with more than $11 million worth of marijuana in a speed boat. The bust took place on Sunday during a CANU maritime operation in Canje, Berbice. CANU said that during the operation a speed boat […]
By News Source Guyana on July 4, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
Three weeks after the Police shooting death of Golden Grove youth, Quindon Bacchus, Police Lance Corporal Kristoff DeNobrega is to face a murder charge related to the youth’s death while two other Policemen are facing obstruction of justice charges. The Director of Public Prosecutions today advised the Guyana Police Force to proceed with the murder […]
By News Source Guyana on July 1, 2022
Crime, News
Police investigators are probing the barbaric murder of an 86-year-old woman whose body was found in her Mon Repos apartment on Thursday. The elderly woman, Agnes Dilon, was found in her bed with chop and stab wounds about her body. The woman lived in the bottom flat of a two-story building, with the landlord living […]
By News Source Guyana on June 30, 2022
Crime, News
One day after she was last seen alive by relatives, the lifeless body of 29-year-old Canje, Berbice resident, Donalesa Park was found dumped at the side of the roadway in Corentyne. According to a Police report, the body was found wrapped in plastic. Family members have been left confused and shocked by the murder. The […]
By News Source Guyana on June 30, 2022
Crime, News
Taxi driver, Thurston Semple, who was recently found guilty of physically assaulting and raping a woman who was a sex worker, will be spending the next 15 years in jail for the crime. High Court Judge Priya Beharry handed down the sentence today after the jury found the man guilty of all the charges related […]