By News Source Guyana on October 3, 2016
Crime, News
Security Guards attached to the Professional Guard Service’s Cash-in-Transit Unit were able to foil an attempt by gunmen to snatch a large sum of cash that they were depositing at Demerara Bank on Camp Street. The incident took place just around midnight on Sunday. According to eyewitnesses, the PGS security vehicle had just turned onto […]
By News Source Guyana on October 1, 2016
Crime, News
The Guyana Defence Force has announced that the illegal aircraft that was recently discovered hidden by camouflage material and under trees at an airstrip in Yupukari, has been repaired and flown from Yupukari to Timehri. The aircraft is the subject of a wide scale investigation by law enforcement agencies and a Commission of Inquiry has also been […]
By News Source Guyana on September 30, 2016
Crime, News
A Former bodyguard for convicted drug lord, Roger Khan, has turned himself into police and three other persons have been arrested as investigators widened their probe into the early Monday morning shooting death of a 19-year-old man outside the Rio Nightclub. The former bodyguard has been identified by law enforcement sources as Lloyd Roberts. He […]
By News Source Guyana on September 30, 2016
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force has fired 30 police officers for various offenses, ranging from corrupt transactions to larceny and robbery. Acting Police Commissioner, David Ramnarine, told members of the media on Friday morning that 15 junior ranks, 3 subordinate officers and 12 constables have been let go by the Force. Ramnarine said there are several […]
By News Source Guyana on September 30, 2016
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force has received a total of nine reports of license firearm holders losing their weapons to theft and the Acting Police Commissioner, David Ramnarine is not happy about that. At a Friday Morning press conference, the acting Police Commissioner said in all of the cases, carelessness was a factor. He said in […]
By News Source Guyana on September 29, 2016
Crime, News, Politics
As local law enforcement agencies are working along with other law enforcement agencies from neighbouring countries, President David Granger is pressing them to do more in locating and apprehending drug convict, Barry Dataram. Dataram was earlier this week sentenced to 5 years in jail in Guyana and fined $164.2 Million after being convicted of being […]
By News Source Guyana on September 29, 2016
Crime, News
An Annandale, East Coast Demerara family has been plunged into mourning following the brutal early morning murder of a 24-year-old man by his own father. The dead young man has been identified as Mohesh Chand who worked as truck operator. He was brutally stabbed and chopped to death early on Thursday morning by his father, […]
By News Source Guyana on September 28, 2016
Crime, News
Police in the East Canje area in Berbice, have launched an investigation into the murder of a cattle farmer in the community. Dead is 38-year-old Ramnarine Itwaru of Gangaram Settlement, East Canje, Berbice. The man’s lifeless body was discovered on Tuesday afternoon by a fisherman, hours after he had left his home to tend to […]
By News Source Guyana on September 27, 2016
Crime, News
An 18-year-old man is nursing a gunshot wound and is under police guard at the Georgetown Hospital after he was shot late on Monday night by an off duty policeman. The teenager, whose name has not been released, had reportedly just robbed a West Ruimveldt resident of cell phones when he was confronted by the […]
By News Source Guyana on September 27, 2016
Crime, News
Self confessed drug lord, Barry Dataram, remains on the run, but was today sentenced to 5 years in jail and fined $164.2 Million after he was found guilty for being in possession of over 225 pounds of cocaine. Magistrate Judy Latchman handed down the sentence at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court even as law enforcement officers […]