By News Source Guyana on October 4, 2024
Crime, News
Two Georgetown men, Alpha Poole and Osafo Peters were charged and remanded to prison today for the abduction of Joshua David. David was snatched just outside a Main Street restaurant last Thursday, and has not been seen or heard from since then. The entire incident was captured on camera. The two men who appeared in […]
By News Source Guyana on October 3, 2024
Crime, News, Politics
Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton today threatened legal action if President Irfaan Ali goes ahead in appoint acting Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken to the substantive position just before Mr. Hicken proceeds on his retirement. In an interview with News Source today, Mr. Norton said he has already approached his Attorneys to look at the issue following […]
By News Source Guyana on October 3, 2024
Crime, News
34-year-old electrician, Sharmo Jones, will be spending the next year in jail after pleading guilty to stealing 24 street lights from the community of La Bonne Intention on the East Coast of Demerara. The Plaisance man was nabbed with the 24 street lights at his home and immediately admitted to stealing them from the power […]
By News Source Guyana on October 3, 2024
Crime, News, Politics
President Irfaan Ali appears set to appoint Acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken substantively to the top position in the Police Force, despite the Opposition Leader still withholding his support. In a letter to the Opposition Leader, Aubrey Norton on Wednesday, Minister of Governance and Parliamentary Affairs, Gail Teixeira noted that the Opposition Leader’s decision not […]
By News Source Guyana on October 2, 2024
Crime, News
Almost a week since a Georgetown man, Joshua David, was snatched and abducted from outside a Main Street Restaurant, searches are ongoing by the Guyana Police Force for him. So far, police investigators have carried out searches in a number of areas across Georgetown and the East Coast of Demerara, but have come up empty […]
By News Source Guyana on October 2, 2024
Crime, News
Police Constable, Mark Forde, who was caught on camera punching away on his 17-year-old son, has been placed under close arrest over the incident. A statement from the Guyana Police Force explained that the incident took place on Monday. According to the Police report, the Police Constable and his teenage son got into an argument […]
By News Source Guyana on October 1, 2024
Crime, News
A mother of two from Good Hope on the East Coast of Demerara died on Monday as a result of multiple injuries sustained in an early Sunday morning accident along the La Bonne Intention Railway embankment. The dead woman has been identified as Salima Heeralall. She was the passenger in a mini-van being driven by […]
By News Source Guyana on September 30, 2024
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force said the search is ongoing for the man who was snatched and abducted from outside the New Thriving Restaurant last Thursday. The incident was captured by someone who was in a vehicle outside the restaurant. In the video recording, you can observe, five men accosting Joshua David and pushing him across […]
By News Source Guyana on September 27, 2024
Crime, News
Three men from the East Coast of Demerara were charged and remanded to jail earlier this week on gun possession and armed robbery charges. The trio made two different Court appearances. During the first appearance on Wednesday, 23-year–old Lushawn Crawford, 25-year-old Renaldo Persaud and 20-year-old Anton Fraser were charged for robbery under and possession of […]
By News Source Guyana on September 27, 2024
Crime, News, Politics
Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit, Matthew Langevine, has warned that the country could face serious consequences if it does not comply with international anti-money laundering standards. Speaking at a private sector led, Illicit Trade forum on Wednesday, Mr. Langevine said although the country feared relatively well at its last round of mutual evaluation by […]