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Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced that the Government intends to launch a Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the crime wave that rocked the nation in the early 2000s. The announcement came days after the Government was grilled by the UN Human Rights Committee on its failure to launch an inquiry into the crime wave, […]
A 51-year-old man from Uitvlugt on the West Coast of Demerara lost his life early this morning when he was hit down by a mini-bus while standing on the side of the roadway. The dead man has been identified as Nicholas Khelawon. The accident occured just after 3 o’clock this morning along the Public Road […]
Two Venezuelan nationals, who were held on Friday in a “go-fast” boat with just over 1,100 pounds of cocaine, have been charged and remanded to jail. The two men, Jose Felix Lindore and Javier Perez, appeared at the Leonora Magistrates’ Court where the drug trafficking charges were read to them. Both suspects pleaded not guilty […]
A row between two prisoners at the Lusignan jail turned deadly on Saturday when one of the prisoners, Anthony Prince was stabbed to death by another prisoner, who has been identified as Shamar David. In a statement, the Prison Service explained that on Saturday afternoon, the men were making jokes about each other’s girlfriends when […]
Two men have been placed in the custody of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit after they held with more than 1100 pounds of cocaine in a Go-Fast Boat during a joint operation between the GDF Coast Guard and CANU. In a statement, CANU explained that the operation took place on Friday at Vergenoegen, in the […]
The Guyana Police Force is seeking to gather information on the detention and questioning of the Head of the Major Crimes Unit of the Guyana Police Force, Superintendent Mitchell Caesar, by US Law Enforcement agents recently. There are reports that Caesar, who was part of a Guyana Police Force contingent that participated in a training […]
A female Sergeant of the Guyana Defence Force lost her life last evening after she was hit down along with two other soldiers by a truck along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway just outside the Splashmin’s Resort. The Guyana Defence Force has confirmed the death of Sgt. Deslyn Nicholson. In a statement last evening, the GDF stated […]
Almost one month after a speeding sand truck slammed into her car, 30-year-old Temeca Kerr passed away at the Georgetown Hospital this morning without ever regaining consciousness. The accident occurred on the 25th February. Kerr was driving her car Camp Street when a speeding sand truck slammed into the car as she was attempting to […]
The life of 84-year-old retired Headmaster, Moses Elias was snuffed out on Friday morning when a fire that investigators suspect was deliberately set, ripped through his Beterverwagting home. In a statement, the Guyana Fire Service said it received an emergency call at around 4 o’clock on Friday morning about a fire along Plot Obaz in […]
A 56-year-old labourer was shot dead, execution-style on Thursday night in Sophia by a lone gunman who escaped on a bicycle. The dead labourer has been identified as Courtney Younge of Section D, Sophia. A Police statement explained that according to Younge’s friend, Vincent Cozier, the two were sitting in a yard at the construction […]
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