By News Source Guyana on January 11, 2021
Crime, News, Politics
Four months after the gruesome murders of Berbice cousins Isaiah and Joel Henry, their family and friends picked the head office of the Criminal Investigations Department over its lack of progress with the investigations. With their placards and a call for justice to be done in the matter, family members called on Crime Chief Wendell […]
By News Source Guyana on January 11, 2021
Crime, News
The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Guyana climbed by two yesterday, taking the total number of deaths to 169. The Ministry of Health reported on Sunday that a 39-year-old man from Region 7 and a 58-year-old man from Region 4 are the latest victims. The country has also recorded 33 new cases of […]
By News Source Guyana on January 11, 2021
Crime, News
The Guyana Prison Service and the Police are investigating the death of a 44-year-old remand prisoner inside the Lusignan prison. The lifeless body of Roger Samuels of Parfait Harmony was found in a cell at the prison on Sunday morning. The man was remanded to jail on Friday for the alleged theft of a motor […]
By News Source Guyana on January 7, 2021
Crime, News
Police investigators are probing a shooting incident that occurred last evening at the home of fraud accused and ponzi scheme suspect, Yuri Dominquez. Three men in an unmarked car reportedly pulled up outside the man’s Coldigen, East Coast Demerara home and opened fire, hitting several parts of the building. No one was injured and its […]
By News Source Guyana on January 6, 2021
Crime, News, Politics
The mother of the young man who was badly beaten by Police officers during an arrest is calling for a full investigation and is now concerned that the Police Force may be dragging its feet on the matter. The mother, Erica Prince said if her son did something wrong and broke the law, then the […]
By News Source Guyana on January 6, 2021
Crime, News
Almost two years after a University of Guyana student was charged with allegedly threatening to bomb the Turkeyen campus, she walked out of the Sparendaam Magistrates’ Court a free woman as a no-case submission was accepted by the presiding Magistrate. The woman, 26-year-old Sheneza Jafarally was charged following an investigation by the Police into several […]
By News Source Guyana on January 5, 2021
Crime, News
West Coast Demerara businessman, Rayan Joseph appeared in Court today and was charged for possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. The 47-year-old man appeared before Magistrate Crystal Lambert at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to the offence. He was remanded to jail and will have to make his next Court […]
By News Source Guyana on January 2, 2021
Crime, News
32-year-old clothes vendor, Paul Smith aka Blacka of Bent Street, Werk-en-Rust became the country’s first murder victim for the new year when he was shot dead on Commerce Street in Georgetown on New Year’s Day. The incident took place at around 6:30pm and the suspect is also a clothes vendor who operates in the same […]
By News Source Guyana on December 31, 2020
Crime, News
Twenty-eight-year-old Cuban national, Yoel Rodrigues has been remanded to jail for the murder of 34-year-old Tara Krishnaran and her 11-year-old daughter. The Cuban national who went on the run just after the double murder was arrested earlier this week in Linden. In Court today, he was not required to enter a plea to the two […]
By News Source Guyana on December 30, 2020
Crime, News
Cuban national Yoel Rodrigues will appear in Court tomorrow to face murder charges for the beating and slashing deaths of 34-year-old Tara Krishnaran and her 11-year-old daughter. Rodrigues, who was the woman’s lover, has admitted to murdering the two. The Guyana Police Force received advice today from the Director of Public Prosecutions to proceed with […]