By News Source Guyana on October 7, 2019
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force this afternoon issued wanted bulletins for six men from Amelia’s Ward, Linden for the execution-style murder of Ian Williams and the attempted murder of his girlfriend, Melita Antiga. Williams was gunned down on the 28th September at Lover’s Lane Amelia’s Ward as he drove a car with his girlfriend inside. He […]
By News Source Guyana on October 4, 2019
Crime, News
Almost two years after he was first charged with faking his own kidnapping, a Trinidadian national has been found guilty and sentenced to four years in jail. He was also sentenced 18 months in jail for providing false information. The 35-year-old man, Sawak Maraj was whisked off to jail today after the verdict and sentence […]
By News Source Guyana on October 3, 2019
Crime, News
The 30-year-old Coast Guard Officer who was held by the Police with over 11 pounds of marijuana along with an illegal gun and ammunition was charged and remanded to prison today. Interdicted Coast Guard Lieutenant Dominic Gilpin pleaded not guilty as he appeared in Court this afternoon before Magistrate Faith McGusty. He denied the allegation […]
By News Source Guyana on October 2, 2019
Crime, News
44-year-old Brian Matterson of Wortmanville was today remanded to prison on an attempted murder charge, which stemmed from his alleged stabbing of his own neighbour. The man was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge. According to the Police Prosecutor, it is alleged that on the 27th September at Princes Street, Worthmanville […]
By News Source Guyana on October 1, 2019
Crime, News
The Sophia man who was charged for murder after throwing his 18-month-old niece through a window then buried her in a backyard has been sentenced to life in prison. The life sentence was handed down even after 22-year-old Sherwin Roberts, pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter and told the Court that he was […]
By News Source Guyana on October 1, 2019
Crime, News
Two of the three men who were charged in connection with the murder of two elderly women in their South Road, Georgetown home have pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter. The two men, Imran Khan and Stephen Andrews appeared before Justice Sandel Kissoon and admitted to killing 89-year-old Constance Fraser and 77-year-old Phyllis […]
By News Source Guyana on September 29, 2019
Crime, News
Police investigators are probing the gunning down of a young man in Linden on Saturday night. The man’s girlfriend was injured in the attack. Dead is Ian Williams aka OJ, while his girlfriend Onika Benjamain remains hospitalised with gunshot injuries. Williams was driving his car through Amelia’s ward with his girlfriend at his side, when […]
By News Source Guyana on September 28, 2019
Crime, News
A disagreement over cigarettes turned into a full out brawl in Alberttown last evening, claiming the lives of the two men who were involved in the brawl. The two men, Jermain Adrian Jeffrey and a vendor known only as “rastaman” got into a confrontation at around 9:30 on Friday night when Jeffrey turned up at […]
By News Source Guyana on September 27, 2019
Crime, News
A 42-year-old businesswoman who was allegedly caught with a quantity of cocaine was today charged for cocaine trafficking and remanded to jail. It is alleged, that the woman, Samantha Hubbard was nabbed with just over five ounces of cocaine in her handbag on Wednesday. She was in the Charlotte Street area at the time. The […]
By News Source Guyana on September 26, 2019
Crime, News
A young officer of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit who attempted to extort money from an outgoing passenger will be fired, according to senior sources at the drug enforcement agency. The man was questioned after an outgoing passenger claimed that he attempted to extort money from her by claiming that marijuana had been found in […]