By News Source Guyana on June 16, 2022
Crime, News
On the same day that 30-year-old taxi driver Ameer Inshanally was charged with the rape of a 14-year-old school girl, the girl passed away at a Berbice Hospital after ingesting a poisonous substance. The rape accused appeared at the Reliance Magistrate Court in Berbice on Wednesday and was charged with the rape of a child […]
By News Source Guyana on June 16, 2022
Crime, News
Tasked with investigating a drug bust matter, a Police Detective Sergeant has found himself before the Courts being accused of stealing more than three thousand grams of marijuana. Police Detective Sergeant Elfannando Newman of the Criminal Investigations Department was marched before the Diamond Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday where the charge of larceny by a public […]
By News Source Guyana on June 15, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
Former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, retired Assistant Commissioner of Police Paul Slowe, today added his voice to the controversy surrounding the Police shooting death of Golden Grove Youth Quindon Bacchus. Bacchus was gunned down by a Special Branch rank last Friday in Haslington. During his online talk show today, Mr. Slowe said the […]
By News Source Guyana on June 14, 2022
Crime, News
A gold miner who is originally from Buxton on the East Coast of Demerara was today charged and remanded to jail for the murder of 26-year-old mining camp chef, Mariam Edwards. Appearing at the Bartica Magistrates’ Court today, 25-year-old Keron Hope was not required to enter a plea to the indictable murder charge, which accused […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
Crime, News
During a joint operation, today between the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit and the Enforcement Division of the Guyana Revenue Authority, a 48-year-old man was busted with a number of ecstasy pills. CANU said that during the operation at Corriverton in Berbice, the ranks intercepted a motor vehicle and during a search, four parcels containing 400 […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
Crime, News
A post-mortem examination conducted today on the body of the Golden Grove youth, Quindon Bacchus who was shot dead by the Police confirmed that he was shot six times. According to the dead man’s family, the post-mortem exam found that Bacchus was shot five times to the back and once to the chest. All six […]
By News Source Guyana on June 13, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
Amid loud protests from residents of the East Coast Demerara village of Golden Grove this morning, Acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken visited the home of the 25-year-old man who was shot dead by the Police last Friday in Haslington. The Commissioner met with the mother and other relatives of Quindon Bacchus and expressed his sympathy […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2022
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force on Sunday afternoon announced that the Special Branch Police rank at the centre of the shooting death of Haslington youth Quindon Bacchus has been placed under close arrest as the Police Complaints Authority is set to investigate the incident. Bacchus was shot dead on Friday afternoon by the Special Branch Officer […]
By News Source Guyana on June 12, 2022
Crime, News, Politics
The family of the Haslington youth, Quindon Bacchus, who was shot dead by the Police on Friday afternoon during an alleged armed confrontation, is calling for an impartial investigation to be conducted into the deadly shooting. The Guyana Police Force provided two versions of the events that led to the death of the 25-year-old man. […]
By News Source Guyana on June 10, 2022
Crime, News
A Haslington, East Coast Demerara family is crying out for justice following the Police shooting death of 25-year-old Quindon Bacchus. Details surrounding the latest Police shooting death are sketchy. However, in a brief statement, the Guyana Police Force claimed that a party of Police ranks was in the Haslington community when they saw a man […]