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A suspected bandit was shot dead early this morning during an attempted robbery of a businessman and his friends. The Police report on the incident stated that the dead man is still to be identified but he was killed during an alleged exchange of gunfire with the businessman and two other friends who were in […]
A dismissed rank of the Guyana Defence Force was today charged with rape and granted bail in the sum of $600,000. The charge came on the same day that the Guyana Defence Force announced the dismissal of the soldier and two other ranks over the alleged incident, which had triggered an inquiry. Charged with […]
Showing no emotions, an 18-year-old young man walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court a free man today after the relatives of the 41-year-old woman he crashed into and killed, agreed to accept compensation and no longer evidence against him. The teen, Dwayne Griffith, was charged back in May 2016 with causing the death of […]
Police investigators probing the attack and beating of two Georgetown men at Canal #1 Polder on the West Bank of Demerara, have questioned a number of persons as part of their investigations, but no arrests have been made. Senior Police sources close to the investigation have reported to News Source that the investigators are conducting […]
A 23-year-old woman from Charlestown will spend the next 2 years and 11 months behind bars after she was found guilty of being in possession of 106 grammes of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. She was also fined $159,000. Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan handed down the sentence to a shocked Tiffany Sultan of Broad […]
The West Coast Demerara restaurant owner, Christopher Small, who was last week held after high powered assault rifles were found at his property, has been charged and remanded to prison for illegal gun and ammunition possession. He appeared on Tuesday at the Leonora Magistrates’ Court and was not required to enter a plea to the […]
36-year-old Police Corporal, Shevon Marks, was today remanded to prison after the Chief Magistrate refused him bail on charges of possession of an illegal weapon and possession of illegal ammunition. Marks, who has been a member of the Guyana Police Force for the past 17 years, was arrested on February 28, as he drove a car […]
There has been no ministerial, government or political intervention in the ongoing investigations by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) into the acquisition of lands at Pradoville by high ranking officials under the PPP government. This was according to Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan at a recent Transparency International Institute Guyana (TIGI) fund-raising dinner. […]
Police Divisional Commander for C’ Division, Assistant Commissioner, Leslie James, has indicated to News Source that police investigators are actively probing the case of the two Georgetown men who were accosted and beaten by a group of persons in the Canal #1 area after being accused of being thieves. The two men, Vernon Beckles and […]
Two years after the brutal murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing at the height of the run up to the 2015 general elections, his father Eustace Harcourt is calling for justice to be served. Crum-Ewing, who was a fierce critic of the former PPP government, was gunned down in the Diamond community as he used […]
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