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One week after fires at two public buildings in Essequibo triggered a major investigation, a 24-year-old man is facing charges for setting the fires. Essequibo Coast resident and excavator operator, Keyon Davis, was charged on Wednesday for two counts of setting fire to public buildings belonging to the state. The charges are in relation to […]
Kaieteur News sub-editor and former Government Cultural Advisor and co-founder of The Citizenship Initiative, Ruel Johnson was taken into custody this morning and questioned about rape allegations. The allegations were made by an ex-girlfriend of Johnson who in a recent social media post detailed alleged instances of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of […]
A businessman remains in custody as the probe continues in the gunning down of 47-year-old contractor Kissoondat Premsukh. Investigators are working on the theory that the murder was an ordered execution. The businessman who is in custody is suspected to be the one who ordered the hit. A woman who was also held initially by […]
Police investigators are probing the gunning down murder of a 47-year-old contractor at his Durban Street worksite. The dead man has been identified as Prem Sukh aka Dave of Lusigan, East Coast Demerara. According to eyewitnesses, the contractor and another worker were at the construction site for a new building when several gunshots shattered the […]
An unoccupied building at the GDF’s Second Infantry Battalion Base at Maria Lodge on the Essequibo Coast was badly damaged by fire just after 3 o’ clock this morning. A police report said the building had no electricity supply. Therefore, the fire being of an electrical origin has been ruled out. Quick thinking neighbours who […]
The assault of a prisoner by prison officers at the Lusignan jail was one of the main reasons behind yesterday’s unrest by prisoners which resulted in fire being set to one of the wooden buildings at the facility. According to the Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels, two prisoners got into a conflict and during a […]
A midday fire at the Lusignan Prison which was triggered by searches for drugs and illegal items, has been completely extinguised. A number of inmates who were injured are being treated for minor injuries. The fire was reportedly set by angry inmates at an old building in the prison around 12:30 as prisoners started a […]
The suspect in the shooting death of the Sophia horse cart owner died this afternoon after he was involved in a shooting with the Police as they attempted to arrest him. The man, Keron Adams, who went on the run yesterday after he shot and killed horse cart owner Andre Easton, was cornered in Mocha […]
As the Guyana Police Force continues its efforts to weed out the drug trade in Guyana, more raids and destruction of marijuana farms are being done. On Monday, a police narcotics eradication exercise was conducted at Bartica Village in the Berbice river. The party of Policemen found a two and a half acre marijuana farm […]
Police and Fire investigators are probing a fire that completely torched the vehicle of journalist Travis Chase and two other vehicles early this morning. The new Honda-CRV was parked in the compound of the Department of Public Service Training and Scholarships at around 3 o’clock this morning when the incident occurred. Chase who lives nearby […]
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