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Five weeks after the brutal murder of 57-year-old East Coast Demerara resident Savitri Raj, the lifeless body of her husband, who was the only suspect in the murder, has been found. The partly decomposed body of 56-year-old Vijaimal Raj was found on Monday afternoon in the Enmore backlands. The discovery was made by a cattle […]
Five members of the Guyana Prison Service have completed training in the United States on responding to prison riots. In a statement, the US Embassy said the training addressed best practices in responding to prison riots and the entire programme was funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement […]
An early morning accident at Mahaicony on the East Coast of Demerara has claimed the life of a 25-year-old man and left a number of other persons nursing serious injuries. The accident which involved three vehicles occurred at 7:40 this morning. The dead man has been identified as Eshwar Arjune. A police report of the […]
A 22-year-old Bartica man was today charged and remanded to jail over the murder of a miner from the same Bartica community. The accused Kellorn Creighton was not required to enter a plea to the indictable charge. The incident took place on the 8th May at Third Avenue Bartica. According to investigators, the 24-year-old miner, […]
Less than a week after being convicted for attempting to extort $10 million from her ex-boyfriend, a 20-year-old East Bank Demerara woman is facing a charge of escaping from lawful custody. The woman, Princess Williams appeared in Court today before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs and pleaded not guilty to the charge of escaping from lawful custody. […]
Two men who were busted with 18 pounds of marijuana at Meadowbank on the East Bank Demerara are in Police custody and will face drug possession and trafficking charges soon. In a statement today, the Police Force said that ranks patrolling in the area noticed the two men fetching a blue plastic barrel into an […]
Technical Consultant, Davendra Rampersaud, who was accused of allegedly providing the Ministry of Health (MOH) with fake HIV testing kits walked out of Court as a free man today as the Magistrate dismissed the case due to insufficient evidence. Rampersaud was charged back in 2020 for allegedly supplying 400 units of expired HIV testing kits […]
37-year-old Civil Engineer Roberto Narine was today granted $200,000 bail after he was charged with causing the death of squash player Ian Mekdeci by dangerous driving. The accident occurred early in the morning on the 1st May. Narine appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court where the charge was read to him. […]
Police investigators in the Rupununi region are investigating the murder of a farmer from the Deep Rupununi village of Bashaizon. The body of 59-year-old Cedric Jones is currently in the morgue at the Lethem hospital awaiting a post-mortem examination. According to information gathered by the police, Jones was involved in a fistfight with a 27-year-old […]
A young national squash player died in an accident early Sunday morning in the city when another vehicle slammed into the car he was in. Dead is 27-year-old Ian Mekdeci of Subryanville. He was a passenger in the car being driven by his friend when a drunk driver sped through the stoplight with his jeep […]
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