By News Source Guyana on February 28, 2021
Crime, News
Five months after he escaped from the Lusignan Prison, a robbery convict was recaptured on Saturday during a cordon and search operation by the Police Force. The escapee, 23-year-old James Moore was found as the Police searched a house in the Sophia area. He has been on the run from law enforcement since September 2020 […]
By News Source Guyana on February 27, 2021
Crime, News, Politics
A probe has been launched into the disappearance of $300 million from the Finance Department of the Guyana Police Force and a special audit is also underway into the operations of the department. Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn announced in the National Assembly on Friday evening that there appears to have been a revolving […]
By News Source Guyana on February 26, 2021
Crime, News, Politics
Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon and a team from the APNU+AFC met this afternoon with Acting Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie and senior Officers of the Force on a number of issues of concern. During the hour-long meeting, Mr. Harmon said he made known to the top cop, that the Force’s posture in dealing with certain matters […]
By News Source Guyana on February 25, 2021
Crime, News
The 23-year-old woman who was held at the Eugene F. Correia Airport, Ogle with pellets of cocaine in her stomach and an additional package stashed in her vagina, appeared in Court this morning and pleaded guilty to the drug trafficking charges. The woman, Tamera Melville appeared at the Sparendaam Magistrates Court this morning and pleaded guilty […]
By News Source Guyana on February 24, 2021
Crime, News
A murder convict who was serving an 81-year sentence for the execution style gunning down of a 72-year-old woman, has died from COVID-19. Sources at the Guyana Prison Service have confirmed the death of convicted prisoner Kevin October. He was a patient of the Coronavirus Intensive Care Unit for several days and slipped into a […]
By News Source Guyana on February 24, 2021
Crime, News
The Speaker of the National Assembly was forced to call in the Police this afternoon after a personal laptop belonging to Opposition Member of Parliament, Cathy Hughes was reported stolen. Hughes said she left her Apple Macbook in her bag along with other documents for the budget debates in the Parliamentary chamber as they took […]
By News Source Guyana on February 24, 2021
Crime, News
Police investigators have issued a wanted bulletin for a 42-year-old East La Penitence man in connection with the gunning down of Tiger Bay youth, Dale Christopher at a j’ouvert fete in Lodge on Mashramani morning. The wanted man has been identified as Osafo Grundall. The 27-year-old shooting victim, Dale Christopher, was shot once to his […]
By News Source Guyana on February 24, 2021
Crime, News
Police in Berbice have arrested four men in the Corentyne area who are accused of attacking and raping an elderly woman in her home. The woman, who is said to be in her 90’s, was discovered yesterday morning by her caregiver in a bloody state. She told the caregiver about the attack by the men […]
By News Source Guyana on February 23, 2021
Crime, News
Three persons have been arrested by the Police as they probe the shooting death of a 27-year-old Tiger Bay, Cummingsburg youth at a j’ouvert party early this morning. The dead youth has been identified as Dale Christopher aka “Sun Skull”. He was in the company of friends at around 6 o’clock this morning at the […]
By News Source Guyana on February 22, 2021
Crime, News
The Father of one of the four prison escapees who are still on the run has been remanded to jail after being charged with the harboring of the escapees. 60-year-old boat Captain, Ralph Jones appeared before Magistrate Crystal Lambert at the Vreed en Hoop Magistrates’ Court today and was remanded to prison until the 5th […]