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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 […]
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 […]
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