By News Source Guyana on November 18, 2019
Crime, News, Politics
Guyana has witnessed a decrease in the cocaine trade over the past few years, according to the Acting Police Crime Chief, Senior Superintendent Michael Kingston. The decrease may be linked to the presence of the United States (US) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Guyana. The DEA Office in Guyana was officially declared open in February […]
By News Source Guyana on November 13, 2019
Crime, News
Following the arrest of 13 persons during a Police operation in Kuru Kururu that unearthed stolen vehicles and car parts, four of those arrested have been charged and remanded to jail. 18-year-old mechanic, Justin DE Santos, 25-year-old taxi drivers Joe Singh and Miguel Materdeen and 33-year-old mechanic Kurt Shepard appeared before the Chief Magistrate to […]
By News Source Guyana on November 13, 2019
Crime, News
20-year-old, Rollox Williams of Eteringbang was today sentenced to 9 months in jail after pleaded guilty to attempting to commit a felony. The man was caught trying to break into a home in John Street Georgetown on the 8th November. He told the Court today that he was trying to break into the home to […]
By News Source Guyana on November 12, 2019
Crime, News
A member of the Joint Services along with a businessman are among three men who have been arrested following a Monday afternoon robbery at Matthew’s Ridge in Region One. According to a Police statement, at around 1:30pm on Monday, four masked gunmen robbed three miners of a large quantity of raw gold at the Matthew’s […]
By News Source Guyana on November 12, 2019
Crime, News
Two vagrants who slept on the pavement along Regent Street were murdered over the past 48 hours and Police investigators have arrested a 24-year-old man from Cummings Street in connection with the crime. The suspect is believed to be behind both murders. One of the murders took place in the early morning hours of Monday […]
By News Source Guyana on November 8, 2019
Crime, News
A 26-year-old former resident of West Ruimveldt was this morning sentenced to 14 months in jail after being found guilty of breaking into a home and carting off more than $1 million in jewellery and electronic items. The sentence was handed down by Magistrate Rhondel Weaver after she found Ceon Isaacs guilty of the crime. […]
By News Source Guyana on November 7, 2019
Crime, News
Days after their arrest in neighbouring Suriname, authorities there have handed over the two Guyanese fishermen who are wanted in Guyana for that deadly attack on a fishing vessel that left four fishermen dead. The two wanted men, 22-year-old Anonth Boodrage of Belvedere, Corentyne and 21-year-old O’brien Fraser of Eversham Village, Corentyne were handed over to local Police on […]
By News Source Guyana on November 7, 2019
Crime, News
A local businessman from Mon Repos on the East Coast of Demerara is expected to face charges soon over an alleged attempt to import a number of containers of expired and substandard food products for the local market. The move comes after four containers containing various food items from Canada were examined by the Government […]
By News Source Guyana on November 7, 2019
Crime, News
The Police Force today issued wanted bulletins for three men from the Canje, Berbice area in connection with an armed robbery committed on the Zhou Chumia Chinese Supermarket. Investigators are on the hunt for 30-year-old Jason Isaacs of Bristol Street, East Canje, 36-year-old Ravindra Punwasie of Palmyra East Canje and 22-year-old Doodnauth Bissoondyal of Cuburg […]
By News Source Guyana on November 6, 2019
Crime, News
The Commission of Inquiry conducted into the deadly accident at Friendship which involved a Police car and a private car has laid responsibility for the crash squarely at the feet of the Police driver. The Police driver and four persons from the other vehicle died in the 15th October accident. The President who visited the […]