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General Secretary and Member of Parliament for the opposition, People’s Progressive Party, Clement Rohee, wants to know whether an actual survey was ever done by the APNU+AFC government that revealed a reduction in crime. The Guyana Police Force has been reporting a reduction in serious and violent crimes when compared to last year, even as […]
Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, believes that even as the Police Force continues its fight against crime, citizens must play a role by speaking up against those relatives or friends who may be part of the criminal enterprise. “You see in Guyana here, I have come to learn that silence is violence”, Mr Ramjattan noted. […]
US Government agents on Tuesday accompanied 20 deportees on a special chartered flight to Guyana. The aircraft with the 20 Guyanese nationals touched down at the Cheddi Jagan Airport just after 3:30pm and some of the men appeared in grey and white prison outfits as they disembarked the aircraft. They were deported from the United […]
A 29-year-old man who attempted to fight off two armed bandits after they grabbed his bag with $3 million cash, is now nursing a gunshot wound to his right thigh. The man was walking along Urquart Street close to the Ministry of Finance when he realised he was being followed. According to a police report, […]
(NBC) A young off-duty corrections officer was shot and killed as she sat in her car in Brooklyn Sunday night in what authorities described as a “horrific murder.” Alastasia Bryan, 25, was declared dead after being found with gunshot wounds to her head and body in the area of East 73 Street and Avenue L […]
(NY Post) A Guyanese man nearly decapitated his wife on a Queens street corner early Monday — sawing through her neck in front of a witness who mistakenly asked if he needed help before he realized the unfolding horror, authorities and sources said. The 50-year-old man allegedly confronted the woman — identified as being in […]
Police investigators on Monday midday arrested another man in connection with the murder of East Ruimveldt resident, Paul Rodney. Police Assistant Commissioner, Clifton Hicken, confirmed the arrest to News Source and said it was based on intelligence gathering. The arrest took place in the South Ruimveldt. Last week, the Police arrested the main suspect in […]
(GINA) Guyana has joined 26 countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in signing a Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Seaport Cooperation Programme (SEACOP), aimed at training and equipping inter-agency units to identify search and interdict all forms of maritime trafficking. Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan signed […]
The owner of a Chinese restaurant in New Amsterdam has found himself in the lockups and facing serious charges after he savagely beat a young man who sells dog food. According to a Police statement, the 33-year-old restaurant owner objected to the man selling dog food in front of his restaurant. The two got into […]
In light of an escalation in some types of crime, the Government has proposed $29.1B for the security sector in the 2017 Budget and this will complement efforts to increase recruitment of police officers by some 20% as it seeks to strengthen its crime prevention and reduction strategy. This announcement was made by Finance Minister, […]
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