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The Guyana Revenue Authority has installed a new baggage scanner at the Moleson Creek Guyana/Suriname border crossing. The GRA said the new scanner boasts sophisticated features that enable scanning of passengers’ baggage within seconds and colour-coded images of the results are displayed and reviewed by specially trained Customs officers. High-risk consignments including illicit, restricted, or […]
Two women are in the custody of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit after one of them was busted at the Eugene F. Correia Airport at Ogle with over 11 pounds of cocaine stashed in table mats and handbags. Sophia resident, 22-year-old Akata Garnett was preparing to board a flight to Barbados, when CANU agents carried out […]
With Acting Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie set to proceed on his pre-retirement leave this month, the search is set to begin for a new Commissioner of Police. The next senior rank is Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Williams, however, since the PPP Civic Government took office, two other senior officers have also been acting as Deputy […]
Three days after ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit found over 2 pounds of cocaine pellets during an operation, two men were marched before the Court to face drug trafficking charges. The two accused, 49-year-old Ron Reid and 45-year-old Nigel Dundas appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly and denied the allegation made against them. The Court […]
Police investigators are probing the death of a 26-year-old Dental Surgeon whose lifeless body was found at her Kuru Kuru home with a wire around her neck. The body of Dhanwantie Ramsarup was discovered by her husband who has since been taken into custody for questioning. It was the husband who alerted the Police to […]
Police Corporal Lawrence Carmichael appeared in Court this morning under heavy police guard and was charged for causing the death of mechanic Christopher Bhagwandat and High School student Sheereda Persaud. Carmichael is accused of driving a Guyana Police Force vehicle in a dangerous manner during a high-speed chase of the car being driven by the […]
Two American fugitives who were found hiding out in Guyana have been extradited to the United States, following cooperation between the US Embassy and local law enforcement and the government. The two fugitives Julian Yhip and Kareem Hack were successfully extradited from Guyana to the United States to face charges on separate sexual offenses. Julian […]
The Policeman who was behind the steering wheel of the Police vehicle that was involved in a high-speed chase that ended in a fatal accident that claimed the lives of two youths, will face charges of causing death by dangerous driving. The Director of Public Prosecutions has advised that Police Officer, Lawrence Carmichael face the […]
An 18-year-old man was today charged and remanded to jail over the attempted murder of a 15-year-old boy. The accused, Claudius James appeared before Senior Magistrate Sherdel Issacs-Marcus and was not required to enter a plea to the charge. According to the case, it alleged that on the 22nd of February at Stabroek Market James wounded […]
Crime sleuths in Region Seven are probing the murder of a 62-year-old Brazilian hotel owner and miner who operated in the Cuyuni area. The dead man’s name has been given as Edmilson Dosantos aka “Damicio”. He operated a 12-room hotel at the Eteringbang Landing in the Cuyuni river. His body was found yesterday in one […]
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