Crime

Police say “insufficient” evidence to charge Dharamlall with rape and sexual assault on latest allegations

The Guyana Police Force today said based on the legal advice of its own Legal Advisor, Attorney Mandel Moore, there is insufficient evidence to charge former Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall in relation to rape and sexual assault allegations that were filed against him recently by a former employee of the Ministry of Local Government. In […]

Tucville youth dies in East Coast Demerara smash-up

A 27-year-old man from Tucville in Georgetown lost his life on Thursday night in a smash-up with a large truck at Mahaicony on the East Coast of Demerara. The dead youth has been identified as Jonathan Gomes. A Police report of the accident stated that at around 8:15pm on Thursday, as Gomes was driving his […]

Corentyne man found murdered in car; Two suspects in custody

Police investigators in the Berbice region are probing the murder of 25-year-old Joshua Hardatt aka “Money”, of Bloomfield Village, Corentyne. The young man’s lifeless body was found in the back seat of his parked Toyota Premio car on Wednesday morning along the Auchlyne Cultivating Dam. Investigators said he was found lying face down in a […]

Two charged and remanded for harbouring wanted man

58-year-old Victoria Village resident, Wayne Summer, and 45-year-old Shawn Baynes of the same East Coast Demerara village, were charged and remanded to jail on Tuesday for harbouring attempted murder suspect, Dexter McDonald aka “Labba”. The two accused appeared at the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Fabio Azore, and both pleaded not guilty to the charge. […]

Venezuelan held in Pomeroon with more than 10lbs cocaine

After arresting a Guyanese man in the Cummings Lodge area with a quantity of cocaine, CANU investigators traveled to the man’s home in the Lower Pomeroon river area, where a Venezuelan national was found in the house with just over 10 pounds of cocaine. During the Monday operation, the police arrested 35-year-old Venezuelan national, Oritz […]

Venezuelans among three held with cocaine in Cummings Lodge

Three persons, including two Venezuelan nationals, are facing drug trafficking charges after they were nabbed on Sunday by the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit with just over seven pounds of cocaine in their possession. A statement from CANU indicated that its ranks were conducting an operation in the Cummings Lodge area on the East Coast of Demerara […]