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A 40-year-old chainsaw operator from Hillfoot Squatting area on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway died tragically early this morning after being attacked, robbed, beaten and stabbed by a group of men. Police identified the dead man as Davanan Hosea. The Police said the incident took place at around 1:35 this morning. The Police report stated that Davanan […]
Two days after she was brutally chopped about her body, 28-year-old Thagewante Motie of Mahaica, East Coast Demerara succumbed to her injuries on Saturday afternoon at the Georgetown Hospital, after undergoing multiple surgeries. Her assailant, 26-year-old, Uram Doorbassa, passed away on Friday at the same Georgetown Hospital. He was admitted there after ingesting a poisonous […]
Tragedy gripped an E-Field, Sophia area on Saturday morning, when a fire that was accidentally set by two young children playing with matches, claimed the life of their 11-month-old sister, Melveena Blair, and completely destroyed the family small wooden home. One of the two young children who survived the fire is hospitalised with serious burn […]
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in coordination with the DEA Georgetown Country Office, conducted two training courses on Basic and Advanced Narcotic Investigations with local law enforcement. The training, which was hosted by the Guyana Police Force, was attended by 35 officers representing several agencies including the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Guyana Defense Force […]
High Court Judge, Nigel Niles, on Wednesday handed down his ruling in the Quindon Bacchus wrongful death case, ordering the State to pay to the estate of Mr. Bacchus the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for his funeral expenses, twenty two million, five hundred thousand dollars ($22,500,000) as damages for the breach of his […]
The Guyana Police Force launched its 2024 Christmas Policing programme this morning, with a plan that will see an increase in Police deployment and patrols at shopping areas, downtown Georgetown, commercial banks and nightspots across the country. Explaining this year’s Christmas Policing strategy, Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum said the strategy is geared to ensure zero […]
The Guyana Police Force has noted a sharp increase in some categories of crime, but has indicated that overall, serious crimes have seen a 14.4% decline so far for this year when compared with the same period last year. The update was given by Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum earlier this morning as the Police Force […]
The Ministry of Home Affairs, through the Guyana Police Force, is aiming to reduce road fatalities to just about 53 per annum by 2030. The ambitious goal is in keeping with the United Nations (UN) Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030, which has a target of preventing at least 50 percent of the road […]
Six years after they were charged in connection with a 22-pound cocaine bust, three men were last Thursday sentenced to three years and six months in jail and fined $15.1 million each after being found guilty of cocaine trafficking. The trio, Denzil Park, Rickardo Denhart and Patrick Ram were found guilty of the drug trafficking […]
An early morning fire at #64 village in Corentyne, Berbice claimed the lives of a mother and four of her children this morning. A fifth child managed to escape from the burning house. It is believed that the mother and her children were all asleep when the fire started, and they got trapped in the […]
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