Crime

Guyana successfully completes second Money Laundering Risk Assessment

Guyana has successfully completed its second Money Laundering/Terrorist Financing (ML/TF) National Risk Assessment Report as it inches closer to its Fourth Mutual Evaluation by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF). Attorney General Anil Nandlall made the announcement on Monday. The Attorney General is also the Chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing […]

Private jet broken into at CJIA; Major investigation launched

A private jet that flew in officials from an international company for a meetings with officials in Guyana was broken into at the Cheddi Jagan Airport, triggering a major investigation. Senior Police officials have confirmed to News Source that investigators are probing the report of an alleged break-in of the private aircraft. The aircraft bearing […]

Guyanese man gunned down in New Jersey

Police in Essex County, New Jersey are probing the shooting death of Guyanese, Rayon Shepherd. According to Police in Newark, the incident took place on Thursday night in Newark’s West Ward. According to police, at approximately 9:30 p.m, police responded to reports of shots fired near 153 Isabella  Avenue.  When, Police Units arrived, they found […]

Prashad Nagar man held with jars of marijuana

A 59-year-old Prashad Nagar resident is in the custody of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit after he was busted on Mandela Avenue with a quantity of marijuana. In a statement, CANU revealed that its agents intercepted the man, Ignatius Mann, on Tuesday at a gas station and decided to carry out a search of his […]

Opposition calls for recall of High Commissioner Charandass Persaud; Walton-Desir roasts Foreign Ministry for “disgusting” response to complaint from woman in India

Opposition Member of Parliament and Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Amanza Walton-Desir today said the Government needs to recall High Commissioner to India, Charandass Persaud over his verbal abuse of a woman outside his official residence in India. The Opposition MP also roasted the Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs for its statement declaring that the matter […]

Magistrate Daly to continue hearing Bascom Cyber Crime case after DPP’s request for removal falls flat

Despite attempts by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Shalimar Ali-Hack to have Magistrate Leron Daly removed from hearing the Detective Dion Bascom Cyber Crime Case, the City magistrate will be presiding over the trial early next year. Last month, the DPP wrote Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Yonette Cummings requesting that Senior Magistrate Leron […]

LBI woman remanded for stabbing death of reputed husband

The 30-year-old La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara woman who allegedly disarmed her abusive reputed husband and stabbed him to death was today charged and remanded to jail for the man’s murder. The accused, Aquiella Abrams, was not required to enter a plea to the murder charge as it was read to her by Magistrate […]