By News Source Guyana on September 23, 2017
Crime, News
Six days after he went missing, the body of 13-year-old Leonard Archibald, has been found. In a statement this afternoon, the Guyana Police Force announced that the murdered teen’s body was found on a mudflat at Korthberaadt River, which is located about three miles from Brothers Village, East Bank Berbice. The teen was reported missing […]
By News Source Guyana on September 23, 2017
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force has confirmed that it has two men in custody for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old boy from East Bank Berbice. The teenager’s body is still to be recovered but the two men have admitted to dumping the lad’s body in the Berbice river after they sodomised him into an […]
By News Source Guyana on September 23, 2017
Crime, News
A week after he was nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan Airport with four pounds of cocaine in his luggage, Â Linden resident and former Policeman, Travis Mendonca was sentenced to three years in jail after pleading guilty to drug trafficking. The 31-year-old man, who was earlier this year deported from Trinidad and Tobago, was getting ready […]
By News Source Guyana on September 22, 2017
Crime, News
Following years of protest, it appears as though Sweeper/cleaners can finally look forward to better working conditions and remuneration, as the Government is moving to regularise their employment as Public Servants. Sweeper/cleaners are a category of workers employed by the Ministry of Education to maintain a clean and healthy environment in public schools. State Minister […]
By News Source Guyana on September 21, 2017
Crime, News
Fifty-nine year-old Seeta Rampersaud opted not to waste the Court’s time and pleaded guilty to trafficking more than five pounds of cocaine. She was sentenced to four years in jail and fined $6.2 million. Rampersaud was preparing to board a New York bound flight on September 18, 2017, when agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics […]
By News Source Guyana on September 20, 2017
Crime, News
A 16-year-old youth, who was on the run for close to a year for the murder of a Baramita Farmer, made his first appearance in Court today and was immediately remanded. The Teen appeared before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mclennan and was not required to plea to the charge to murder. The Court heard that on […]
By News Source Guyana on September 20, 2017
Crime
A handyman who admitted in Court that he damaged a section of the house owned by State Minister Joe Harmon, was sentenced to six months in jail today. 30-year -old, Samuel Green, made his first appearance in Court and admitted to the offence. The charge stated that on the 15th September at Mazuruni Street, Guyhoc, […]
By News Source Guyana on September 19, 2017
Crime, News
Just two weeks after the government said it was in possession of information that suggests some level of collusion between the Police and persons who landed an illegal aircraft in the North Rupununi, Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan has confirmed the removal of several ranks stationed in the area. He said the removal from the area […]
By News Source Guyana on September 19, 2017
Crime, News
One week after being nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA),by ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), a Cummings Lodge man who swallowed more than 2 pounds of cocaine in small packets was sentenced to jail today. When 38-year-old, Julius Fidel Watkins appeared in Court this morning, he opted to plead guilty to […]
By News Source Guyana on September 19, 2017
Crime, News
A taxi driver and a woman from Plantation Providence on the East Bank of Demerara, are both nursing wounds after being attacked by bandits early this morning. The incident reportedly took place just after 2 o’ clock this morning as the woman was arriving home. The injured woman has been identified as Kathy Vyphuis. She […]