By News Source Guyana on January 15, 2018
Crime, News
A Lance Corporal of the Georgetown City Constabulary remains in custody as the probe continues into the Sunday afternoon shooting death of vendor, Marlon Fredericks. A post-mortem examination conducted on the body of the man this morning found that he died from complications to his lower back as a result of a gunshot wound. Fredericks, […]
By News Source Guyana on January 15, 2018
Crime, News
A serving member of the Guyana Defence Force is in custody this morning following investigations into a $5.5 million robbery of a woman in the Kitty area last week. Police investigations into the robbery led them to house in Middle road, La Penitence over the weekend. Once there, investigators found an unlicensed weapon with live […]
By News Source Guyana on January 14, 2018
Crime
On Friday, two workers attached the Diamond Nightclub and hotel found themselves before the Court facing human trafficking charges. The charges came one week after the Police raided the Diamond Nightclub and hotel in Werk-en-rust and took over 40 foreign women away and into protective custody. Appearing in Court were Fiona Hopkinson and Rodwell Dempster. […]
By News Source Guyana on January 14, 2018
Crime, News
As the Police Force continue with its efforts to stamp out marijuana cultivation and trafficking, a drug raid in the Berbice area, revealed a four-acre marijuana farm. The raid was conducted on Friday in in the Berbice River communities of DeVeldt and Tabali. According to a Police statement, about four acres of cultivated cannabis with […]
By News Source Guyana on January 14, 2018
Crime, News
Police investigators are probing the murder of a 30-year-old Kaneville machine operator. The man, Ishwar Ramanah, died on Saturday evening after being hospitalised for gunshot wounds that were sustained during a robbery on December 13, 2017. According to a Police report, the East Bank Demerara man, was shot back in December during a robbery at […]
By News Source Guyana on January 11, 2018
Crime, News
Three months after she was charged with attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Guyana in hammocks, Guyhoc resident, Tiffany Collision was sentenced to three years and nine months in jail. Additionally, she was fined $18.2 Million. She was found guilty of the charge today by the Chief Magistrate and the sentence was handed down immediately. […]
By News Source Guyana on January 11, 2018
Crime, News
Drama unfolded at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning as one of the three persons accused in the murder of the two elderly women back in November, collapsed and fainted during a hearing. The three accused were in the Courtroom of Principal Magistrate, Judy Latchman this morning as evidence was being offered in the preliminary […]
By News Source Guyana on January 11, 2018
Crime, News
Following the early Mondary morning raid at the Diamond nightclub, a Venezuelan woman was yesterday charged and released on $20,000 bail for the offence of illegal entry. The woman, Maria Alexandra Manchingo, stood before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mclennan and pleaded not guilty to offence of illegal entry. The court heard that defendant entered Guyana illegally […]
By News Source Guyana on January 10, 2018
Crime, News
Just moments after a Guyanese farmer and a Venezuelan woman were charged in connection with the discovery of over 25 pounds of cocaine in a Pomeroon house, six other persons including four Colombians were slapped with drug trafficking charges linked to the same bust. They were all remanded to jail today. The men, Yieson Sanchez, […]
By News Source Guyana on January 10, 2018
Crime, News
A Farmer who was recently busted by CANU with over 25 pounds of cocaine, was remanded to jail today along with his chef, who is accused of allegedly aiding in the trafficking of the illegal substance. 48-year-old, Gavin Adams stood deep in thought for several seconds in Court today before he entered a plea of […]