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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 […]
Two persons have been arrested by the Police following the discovery of an AK-47 rifle and a .223 Ruger rifle. The two high-powered weapons were found wrapped in plastic garbage bags and hidden in the corner of a trench on the West Coast of Demerara. Ranks from the Major Crime Unit of the CID Headquarters […]
A Meten-meer-zorg, West Coast Demerara businessman is in the custody of the Guyana Police Force after he was found this afternoon with two high powered weapons at his residence. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed the arrest of the businessman to News Source and said the weapons found, were an AK-47 and an M-70 rifle. Two […]
56-year-old businessman and owner of Micro Business Developers and Consultancy Company, Clayton Allen, was placed on $400,000 bail today after being slapped with fraud charges. The Georgetown businessman appeared before the Chief Magistrate this morning, where it was alleged that he used a forged Republic Bank Manager’s cheque to pay for six vehicles that he […]
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