By News Source Guyana on July 1, 2022
Crime, News
Police investigators are probing the barbaric murder of an 86-year-old woman whose body was found in her Mon Repos apartment on Thursday. The elderly woman, Agnes Dilon, was found in her bed with chop and stab wounds about her body. The woman lived in the bottom flat of a two-story building, with the landlord living […]
By News Source Guyana on June 30, 2022
Crime, News
One day after she was last seen alive by relatives, the lifeless body of 29-year-old Canje, Berbice resident, Donalesa Park was found dumped at the side of the roadway in Corentyne. According to a Police report, the body was found wrapped in plastic. Family members have been left confused and shocked by the murder. The […]
By News Source Guyana on June 30, 2022
Crime, News
Taxi driver, Thurston Semple, who was recently found guilty of physically assaulting and raping a woman who was a sex worker, will be spending the next 15 years in jail for the crime. High Court Judge Priya Beharry handed down the sentence today after the jury found the man guilty of all the charges related […]
By News Source Guyana on June 29, 2022
Crime, News
A La Penitence mother of five lost her life this afternoon in an accident on Mandela Avenue involving a motorcycle and a Mercedes Benz SUV belonging to the prominent Mohamed business family. The dead woman has been identified as Odessa Sam of Middle Walk, La Penitence. She was the pillion rider on a motorcycle being […]
By News Source Guyana on June 29, 2022
Crime, News
A Golden Grove man who is a known psychiatric patient was last evening arrested in connection with threats that he made against the life of the President while participating in yesterday’s protests along the East Coast of Demerara. In a statement this afternoon, the Guyana Police Force announced the arrest of 35-year-old Marvin Richmond. The […]
By News Source Guyana on June 29, 2022
Crime, News
Two months after the bodies of close friends Richie Hansraj and Justin Teixeira were found in a car in the Marriott parking lot, a toxicology investigation found that the two men died from cyanide poisoning. In a brief statement today, the Guyana Police Force said the findings also revealed that the two men had a […]
By News Source Guyana on June 29, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
Guyana and Brazil will be stepping up cooperation to fight transnational organized crimes. Earlier this week, the two countries signed an agreement for Inter-institutional cooperation. Guyana’s Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn signed the agreement on behalf of the Government of Guyana. In addition to providing for increased cooperation to combat transnational organized crime, it […]
By News Source Guyana on June 29, 2022
Crime, News
Eccles resident Andrew Morgan was this morning charged and remanded to jail over the alleged possession of more than seven pounds of cocaine. Morgan appeared at the Diamond Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to the cocaine trafficking charge. The Prosecutor’s case is that he was found with a large quantity of cocaine for the […]
By News Source Guyana on June 28, 2022
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force announced this afternoon that members of the Joint Services have been dispatched to the East Coast Demerara corridor to monitor the roadway and mitigate any acts of crime. The move amidst the protests by villagers over the Police shooting death of Quindon Bacchus and reports of robberies and looting at the […]
By News Source Guyana on June 28, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
President Irfaan Ali is urging the protesting East Coast Demerara residents to allow the Police Complaints Authority to do its work and wait on the process to be completed, as the probe continues into the Police shooting death of Quindon Bacchus. In a televised statement from State House, President Ali said he has been assured […]