By News Source Guyana on April 4, 2023
Crime, News
The Director of Public Prosecutions has recommended that the owner of the Little Learners Daycare facility, be charged with manslaughter over the death of a young child at the daycare. The 7-month-old baby girl, Oriya Gravesande, was rushed to the Georgetown Hospital on the 21st March, hours after she was taken to the daycare facility […]
By News Source Guyana on April 3, 2023
Crime, News, Politics
WPA Executive Chairman and longtime political activist, Tacuma Ogunseye is expected in Court as early as today, to face incitement charges after spending the weekend behind bars. Mr. Ogunseye turned himself over to investigators on Friday morning, one day after a wanted bulletin was issued for his arrest. Once in custody, he exercised his right […]
By News Source Guyana on March 31, 2023
Crime, News, Politics
A 52-year-old man from C’ Field, Sophia is in Police custody after being busted with more than 35 pounds of marijuana in his possession. A Police report said the man and another man were spotted by the Police at around 6:35 this morning walking towards the old New Amsterdam ferry stelling with multiple bags in […]
By News Source Guyana on March 31, 2023
Crime, News, Politics
Longtime Political Activist and Executive Member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Tucama Ogunseye turned himself over to the police this morning. He was accompanied by Attorneys Nigel Hughes and Darren Wade. His surrender to law enforcement came one day after a wanted bulletin was issued for his arrest in connection with allegations of exciting […]
By News Source Guyana on March 29, 2023
Crime, News
The charge against Linden businessman Fawazz McRae has now been upgraded to murder, following the death of Police Sergeant, Jermaine Semple. Semple was laid to rest on Tuesday. The businessman, who is his cousin, had initially faced a charge of attempted murder, as the Police man remain hospitalised. However, he never recovered and passed away […]
By News Source Guyana on March 29, 2023
Crime, News, Politics
The United States embassy in Georgetown has issued a security alert, while increasing its security protocols. In a statement on its website, which was issued this morning, the US Embassy said it has received threats against US interests and is urging US citizens to be on the alert and to exercise due caution. Although the […]
By News Source Guyana on March 28, 2023
Crime, News
Police investigators in Port Kaituma in Region One, have detained a 17-year-old youth from the village, who is accused of murdering a 21-year-old porknocker from the same community. The porknocker’s body was found at the side of the roadway near his home with blood oozing from his head early this morning. Persons in the area […]
By News Source Guyana on March 28, 2023
Crime, News
The Charlestown man, who told Police investigators that he panicked after accidentally hitting his grandmother across the head resulting in her death, and later dumping her body in an empty lot, was today charged with the elderly woman’s murder and remanded to jail. The 27-year-old Charlestown resident, Yonnic Gilpin, appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly today […]
By News Source Guyana on March 24, 2023
Crime, News
A Sophia couple escaped an execution attempt on Thursday night, but the 34-year-old woman and her reputed husband are both nursing gunshot injuries. The businesswoman was outside her shop in B Field, Sophia with her husband on the inside on Thursday night when a dark coloured car pulled up and three armed men emerged from […]
By News Source Guyana on March 23, 2023
Crime, News, Politics
Pandemonium broke out at the Houston Secondary School this afternoon when a female teacher armed herself with a cutlass following an attack by a parent and a student of the school. The teacher, Kimone Gentle, who has been teaching at the school for several years, said she was forced to defend herself. Both the teacher […]