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Already serving an eight year jail sentence for cocaine trafficking and other charges related to trying to escape sentencing, convicted and self confessed drug lord, Barry Dataram, may have more legal troubles heading his way. The Special Organised Crime Unit has opened investigations into Dataram’s assets and his possible links to money laundering. A senior […]
A second co-accused in the 2008 Bartica massacre on Tuesday morning pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter in the High Court. Clad in a white linen suit, Clebert Reece appeared before Justice Roxanne George and a Jury where he entered his guilty plea to 12 counts of manslaughter. He will face sentencing […]
A Police Constable is hospitalised and nursing stab wounds about his body, while another police officer was treated and discharged for stab wounds to his body also. The two constables were attacked by a drunk patron outside a Lethem nightclub early on Sunday morning as they intervened in a confrontation between the man and a […]
A 31-year-old woman was on Thursday busted with a quantity of cocaine strapped to her body while attempting to leave Guyana’s shores for Suriname. The Police said the bust amounted to 668 grams and the interception was made at No. 78 Foreshore, Corriverton, Berbice. The woman was identified as Senimelia Alizzia Lewis, of 84 Sugar […]
The Private Sector Commission joined citizens and other stakeholders on Friday to register its concern over the “inability” of the state to protect citizens from widespread gun inspired crime. The PSC said citizens now feel threatened, regardless of where they happen to be, because of the belief that they are under threat from violent gun […]
One man is dead and another is seriously injured following a drive by shooting incident in Sophia on Thursday evening. The dead man has been identified as Kevin Innis. According to reports, Innis and another man were standing outside a shop in B Field Sophia when a car pulled up with two masked men and […]
The Guyana Police Force is praising co-operation between citizens and the Police Force and believes that cooperation has resulted in the seizure of a high-powered weapon and several matching rounds of ammunition in Linden. Police investigators say they were able to retrieve a high powered AK 47 Rifle, two magazines and fifteen rounds of matching ammunition, […]
Police investigators are this evening probing the robbery and shooting of BM Soat Manager, Rameez Mohammed. He was shot to the thigh just outside his Croal Street car dealership by gunman as he was about to enter his car. Reports indicate that Mohammed was relieved of a bag of money that he was carrying at […]
A United States Customs and Border Protection Officer is slated to give evidence in a gold smuggling case against a local businessman. The Officer is the latest and seemingly the last of several overseas witnesses to offer testimony in the case against Christopher Baldeo. In this case, Baldeo is charged with smuggling four gold bars […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions is currently assessing whether any criminal or other charges could be brought against persons believed to be involved in fraud and mismanagement at the Guyana Marketing Corporation. The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) recently completed and forwarded a report on its investigation into irregularities at GMC for advice. An audit […]
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