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One day after she was arrested at the Cheddi Jagan Airport with almost five pounds of cocaine strapped to her body, Aviation Security Officer, Keesha Greene pleaded guilty this morning to the charge of drug trafficking and was sentenced to three years in jail. Additionally, the 29-year-old woman was fined $3.2 million. Greene was reporting […]
A Sophia family is demanding justice after their son was shot to the leg by the Police during a confrontation. The Police said 25-year-old, Quincy Morris was shot while resisting arrest. The Police claimed that he had pulled a gun on the arresting officers, resulting in one of the officers firing a shot which struck […]
More than six weeks since two Policemen were identified among three persons who abducted and later robbed a Providence man, charges are still to be laid against the two Policemen although the Director of Public Prosecutions recommended charges. The Guyana Police Force is now claiming that it is awaiting technical advice before proceeding with the […]
A 52-year-old businessman from Bladen Hall on the East Coast of Demerara is in Police custody over the shooting death of a vagrant outside his premises. The businessman, Pooran Singh, operates a beverage depot at his home. A report of the incident stated that on the morning of December 1, 2024, Singh shot and killed […]
Tragedy struck a St. Cuthbert’s Mission family on Saturday evening as a head on collision involving two cars claimed the lives of a 63-year-old woman, her 29-year-old daughter and her 7-year-old grand daughter. The three who have been identified as Olive Andrews, Attina Andrews and Emma Andrews, were passengers in one of the two cars […]
The Guyana Police Force is investigating the discovery of just over 217 pounds of marijuana which was dumped into the Demerara River by the operators of a speedboat that was being chased by the Coast Guard. The incident took place at around 2 o’clock on Thursday morning in the vicinity of the Vreed-en-Hoop stelling. A […]
Four Venezuelans were today charged and remanded to jail for attempted murder, over the stabbing of a Policeman on Saturday night at the Stabroek Market square in Georgetown. The four accused, 21-year-old Victoria La Cruz, 19-year-old Gabriel Campose, 37-year-old Lilbeth Valasquez and 26-year-old Jesus Herrea, appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore this morning, charged with the […]
A 26-year-old soldier attached to the Guyana Defence Force was today charged and remanded to jail for the attempted murder of his girlfriend. The accused, Philon Edwards, from West Coast Berbice, was not required to enter a plea to the indictable attempted murder charge this morning as he appeared at the Blairmont Magistrates’ Court Edwards […]
A 27-year-old Venezuelan woman, who lives in Guyana, has been charged with three counts of Trafficking in Persons and one count of Unlawful Withholding of Identification documents. The accused, Andreina Jimenez, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning before Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty. She pleaded not guilty to the four (4) charges and […]
A 17-year-old boy from the Sophia community is nursing a gunshot wound to his left thigh. He has told Police investigators that he was shot by two persons on a motorcycle early on Sunday morning, while he was on another motorcycle with a friend. The teenager told investigators that the incident occurred at around 2:30 […]
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