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Almost two years after he first appeared in Court, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Kurt Smith, has been cleared of the Misconduct in Public Office charges that were filed against him by the Special Organised Crime Unit. On Wednesday, Magistrate Fabayo Azore upheld the no-case submission by the Police Officer’s Attorney, Patrice Henry, and dismissed the […]
Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken today encouraged Police ranks on patrol duty to call for back-up whenever they are faced with threats, and not wait until it is too late. Addressing Inspectors and Sergeants at their annual conference this morning, the Commissioner said failure to seek help when faced with a threat can put the […]
Police investigators in Region 9 are probing the murder of a 25-year-old Guyanese man who lives in neighbouring Brazil, but was stabbed to death during a row with his step-father in the village of Karasabai. The incident took place on Monday evening and the dead young man has been identified as Jonnah Pedro. The suspect, […]
Twenty-Five ranks of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) are being trained in the area of Cybercrime detection. In a release, the Police Force indicated that the training is a strategic move to bolster its capabilities in tackling the growing threat of cybercrime. The two-week training programme is being spearheaded by Officer-in-Charge of […]
The Brazilian woman, who was arrested last week along with a Brazilian man during an alleged gold smuggling bust, has been charged and granted bail in the sum of $75,000. The man is still to be charged. 39-year-old Erizangela De Olivera appeared in Court this morning before Magistrate Faith McGusty and pleaded not guilty to […]
The Special Organised Crime Unit of the Guyana Police Force today denied that it has been withholding evidence in the fraud case against former Assistant Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus. In a statement, the Head of SOCU, Deputy Police Commissioner Fizal Karimbaksh rejected a report in another section of the media that stated that Prosecutors in […]
Nine months after being sanctioned by the US Government along with his son and their businesses, Guyanese business magnate Nazar Mohamed broke his silence this evening on the impact of those sanctions and the Guyana Government’s reaction. “To say that it hasn’t affected us in an understatement. Indeed, it has affected us greatly because our […]
Police in Corentyne, Berbice are on the hunt for the driver of a car that was involved in a deadly hit and run accident that claimed the life of a 9-month old baby. The baby was at the time in the company of her 17-year-old father and 19-year-old mother. The accident occurred on Sunday evening […]
A taxi driver from Bagotstown on the East Bank of Demerara is facing serious drug trafficking chargers after he was nabbed by the Police on Monday at the Eugene F. Correia International Airport with a quantity of marijuana in his possession. The driver, 27-year-old Dequan Charles, was at the Jag’s Hanger at the Airport with […]
The Government of Guyana has alerted the international community to threats by the Venezuelan military against various oil production vessels operating in Guyana’s waters. On Saturday morning, a Venezuelan military ship was spotted in Guyana’s waters traversing close to the various vessels and informing those vessels that they were operating in what the Venezuelans consider […]
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