By News Source Guyana on January 24, 2020
Crime, News
A-29-year-old North Ruimveldt resident was sentenced to 23 years in jail today after admitting to the execution-style killing of Festival City resident Christopher Wharton. In Court today, the accused Rickford Jones called Junie appeared before Justice Sandel Kissoon and entered a guilty plea to the lesser count of manslaughter. He admitted to the unlawful killing […]
By News Source Guyana on January 24, 2020
Crime, News
A marriage of 27 years came to a deadly end late last night when a Cane Grove man stabbed his wife to death and later attempted to take his own life. 44-year-old mother of six, Somattie Keosoram died from multiple stab wounds to the body and a slash to the neck. Her husband, Terrence Jackson […]
By News Source Guyana on January 24, 2020
Crime, News
A driver who operated his mini-bus with the passenger door open and allowed his student passengers to jump from the moving bus, will be spending the next six months in jail. The driver, Omkar Rambharose appeared in Court on Wednesday and was charged with dangerous driving, failure to ensure the safety of passengers and breach […]
By News Source Guyana on January 23, 2020
Crime, News
A 15-year-old female student of the Linden Foundation Secondary School is a patient of the Linden Hospital tonight nursing a stab wound to her lower back. The teenage girl and another girl were involved in an afternoon fight after they left school. It was during the roadside brawl that a third girl attacked and stabbed […]
By News Source Guyana on January 21, 2020
Crime, News
The 72-year-old man who was attacked and beaten by his own son and three others at his Strathspey, East Coast Demerara home has died as a result of his injuries. Deochand Ramsahoye passed away in hospital earlier today, never fully recovering from the beating he received on Sunday night. One of his sons and three […]
By News Source Guyana on January 21, 2020
Crime, News
Gang violence in the Kaneville community is being blamed for the death of an 18-year-old man. The body of Wayne George Jr. was discovered this morning in a trench in the community with several marks of violence. According to the dead man’s mother, Emmette George, she last saw her son alive on Monday night when […]
By News Source Guyana on January 20, 2020
Crime, News
A 45-year-old man who works as a bartender and a 24-year-old porter were today charged and remanded to jail for drug trafficking. The two, Christopher Garraway and Randy Chester appeared in Court this morning charged in connection with the cocaine and marijuana bust in a fertilizer truck that was heading to Berbice. The bust was […]
By News Source Guyana on January 19, 2020
Crime, News, Politics
The People’s Progressive Party Civic moved into the town of Anna Regina in Essequibo on Saturday encouraging residents to once again support the party they have been supporting for years. The Presidential Candidate, Irfaan Ali, focused a great deal of his address on the issue of crime and crime-fighting. He told the large gathering of […]
By News Source Guyana on January 17, 2020
Crime, News
A 31-year-old miner was remanded to prison today for the trafficking of marijuana. Linden resident, Lennox Jackman appeared before Magsirate Sherdel Marcus-Issacs and denied the charge that he had 658 grams of marijuana in his possession on the 16th of January for the purpose of trafficking. The man was nabbed by the Police along the […]
By News Source Guyana on January 17, 2020
Crime, News
27-year-old beautician Lolita Callender aka Lola, who was found guilty of assaulting another beautician was today ordered to pay the sum of $200,000 to the woman she assaulted. Lola, who was found guilty of the charge last year was back in Court for her sentencing today. Instead of a jail sentence, the Magistrate ordered that […]