By News Source Guyana on December 27, 2023
Crime, News, Politics
By Svetlana Marshall Fraud charges against six retired senior Police Officers and three serving senior Police Officers, were dismissed today by Magistrate Rhondel Weever over the lack of evidence. Assistant Police Commissioner Royston Andries-Junor, Senior Superintendent of Police Marcelene Washington and Asst. Superintendent Marlon Kellman were charged along with retired senior Officers Paul Slowe, Clinton […]
By News Source Guyana on December 27, 2023
Crime, News
Magistrate Chrystal Lambert this morning discharged the murder charges against brothers, Rondell Layne and Mario Moses, over the 2022 beating death of mining ranger, Ricky Oswald Ambrose. The two brothers were represented by Attorney-at-law, Yuborn Allicock. In handing down her decision today, Magistrate Lambert referenced her earlier ruling which threw out the alleged confession statement […]
By News Source Guyana on December 22, 2023
Crime, News
More than three weeks after an untagged suitcase packed with cocaine was found on a Caribbean Airlines flight from Guyana, the authorities in Guyana are still probing the case. A total of 50 pounds of cocaine was found in the suitcase when it was offloaded from the aircraft at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. Canadian authorities […]
By News Source Guyana on December 20, 2023
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force announced today that it dispatched one of its officers to New York recently to serve a summons on US-based, Guyanese political activist Rickford Burke, for him to appear in Court in Guyana on cyber crime charges. In a statement, the Police Force said Assistant Superintendent of Police, Rodwell Sarabo, was sent […]
By News Source Guyana on December 20, 2023
Crime, News
After issuing a full statement announcing that it had requested the firearm of journalist Travis Chase for testing as part of the investigations into the shooting up of his car, the Guyana Police Force quietly returned the journalist’s weapon after ballistics tests found no links between his weapon and the spent shells discovered at the […]
By News Source Guyana on December 20, 2023
Crime, News
More than a month after he went on the run after brutally stabbing his wife to death in the Sunset View Hotel in Georgetown, Corentyne resident Sadesh Appadu, has died. The man reportedly turned up at the home of a relative recently after ingesting a poisonous substance. He was later found dead. In a statement […]
By News Source Guyana on December 20, 2023
Crime, News
Police on the West Coast of Berbice are investigating the murder of 27-year-old Dwayne Byass called ‘Eddo’, of Golden Fleece, West Coast Berbice. The self-employed man was stabbed to death this afternoon at Paradise on the West Coast of Berbice during a domino game at a shop. A police statement on the murder indicated that […]
By News Source Guyana on December 19, 2023
Crime, News
The Guyana Prison Service has announced that female prisoners who are currently being housed at the New Amsterdam Prison, will be moved to the Timehri Prison on Wednesday. The move is a temporary one. The women offenders will be housed at Timehri while construction works are being carried out at the New Amsterdam jail to […]
By News Source Guyana on December 18, 2023
Crime, News
A party in the East Coast Demerara village of Victoria ended tragically early Sunday morning after two men lost their lives in a cutlass attack. Police are investigating the two murders. The two dead men have been identified as 24-year-old Yoffi Bobb and 26-year-old William Montrose. According to a Police statement, William Montrose was at […]
By News Source Guyana on December 18, 2023
Crime, News
Agriculture Minister Zulfcar Mustapha is nursing a number of injuries after a speeding car slammed into his Government assigned vehicle, while he was leaving the West Coas Berbice area yesterday. Surveillance video captured from a nearby CCTV camera showed the Minister’s vehicle and another Ministry of Agriculture vehicle moving slowing along the roadway when a […]
