Crime

AFC calls for establishment of Police Oversight Authority

The Alliance For Change, (AFC) is calling for the establishment of an independent Police Oversight Authority, with wide-ranging powers to investigate ill-discipline by the members of the Guyana Police Force and recommend penalties. The call by the AFC comes in wake of the recent police killings of Ronaldo Peters and Keon Fogenay in Linden.  The […]

Nandlall hammers US report on money laundering, corruption and narco trafficking in Guyana

Two weeks after declaring that the US Government has full confidence in Guyana’s leadership with the visit of three Secretaries of State in four years, Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall is now firing off at the US Government over its latest International Drug Control Strategy Report, which was released by its State Department on Monday. […]

File on Police Killing of Ronaldo Peters completed; Additional witnesses of Keon Fogenay’s killing being interviewed

The Guyana Police Force’s Office of Professional Responsibility and the Regional Security System have completed their probe of the Police shooting death of 21-year-old Ronaldo Peters. The file will be submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions by tomorrow for official advice on the charge to be filed in the Court. Peters was shot dead […]

US State Department highlights corruption, bribery and nepotism in public sector as key hindrances to drug fight in Guyana

The US Department of State has once again flagged Guyana’s Law enforcement agencies for corruption and bribery, which it says continue to hinder the country’s fight against drug trafficking. In its annual International Drug Control Strategy Report, the US State Department noted that while the Government does not encourage or facilitate the production or distribution […]

Couple dies from injures sustained in fire at Moblissa home

Police investigators are probing the death of a 20-year-old housewife, who was badly burnt after a gas bottle reportedly exploded in her house at Moblissa along the Soesdyke-Linden highway. However, the dead woman’s family believe she may have been deliberately set on fire by her reputed husband. The reputed husband has since succumbed to burn […]

Cuban national found murdered in Melanie, ECD

Police Detectives have launched an investigation into the murder of a 54-year-old Cuban national who was found early Sunday morning at Melanie Market Street on the East Coast of Demerara. The man has been identified as Jose Aurelio Ramirez. He reportedly lived in the same area. A police crime patrol was in the area on […]