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Three members of a family were killed on Saturday night as a fire suspected to have been deliberately started, completed gutted their Cummings Lodge apartment. The dead persons have been identified as 40-year-old Beverly Williams, her 46-year-old husband, Marvin Ifill and 14-year-old son Dawall Ifill. The charred remains were found in the ashes of the […]
Three persons including a young police officer lost their lives in two separate accidents in Essequibo yesterday. The first accident occurred at around 1:35 yesterday afternoon at Land of Plenty Public Road on the Essequibo Coast. 25-year-old Police Sergeant Lakhan Persaud died in that accident. A police statement explained that the young policeman was driving […]
A 26-year-old man who brandished a number of firearms in a video that went viral on social media has been arrested and remains in Police custody tonight. In a statement this evening, the Guyana Police Force said the weapons belong to a private security firm and have all been seized. In the video, the man […]
Attorney-at-law and People’s Progressive Party Candidate Anil Nandlall has compiled and dispatched a number of screen grabs of Facebook comments that are considered racist to the Police Commissioner for investigation. The comments were captured from different Facebook pages including the comments section of some media pages, In his letter to the Police Commissioner, Mr. Nandlall […]
Three years after his escape from the Lusignan prison, murder suspect Paul Goriah has been recaptured in neighbouring Suriname and is likely to be returned to Guyana within days. Goriah and two other men were nabbed in Nickerie recently during an armed robbery. He initially identified himself as Kevin Smith, but when his photograph was […]
The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions today withdrew its application to the Full Court for the hearing of an appeal against a High Court decision to dismiss the murder committal against Marcus Bisram. The matter came up in the Full Court this afternoon and the hearing was conducted via video conference. The Full […]
Moments after robbing a Linden business of a sum of cash and other items, a 22-year-old bandit was shot dead by the same businessman who pursued him and his accomplice. The dead bandit has been identified as Kevin Batson of First Alley, Wismar, Linden. The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon. According to a Police statement, […]
One week after a High Court Judge threw out the murder charge and committal to stand trial against Marcus Bisram, the Director of Public Prosecutions has moved to the Full Court to appeal the Judge’s decision. Last week, Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall set Bisram free after quashing the DPP’s direction to the Magistrate to reopen the […]
Three days after the gruesome murder of 61-year-old Satie Monica Singh aka Satie Bekharry, the Guyana Police Force has announced that the only suspect in the case will be heading to the Court to face the murder charge. The Police Force today said it has received legal advice to move ahead with the murder charge […]
Flamboyant Guyanese American businessman, Marcus Bisram, walked out of the Camp Street prison a free man this afternoon after High Court Judge, Simone Morris-Ramlall, ordered his release while dismissing the committal for him to stand trial for murder. Back in March, Bisram was set free after a Berbice Magistrate upheld the no-case submission by his […]
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