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The Government has procured a $50.5M analysis workflow system for the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory, Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn told the Committee of Supply today, as he sought approval for advances taken from the Consolidated Fund. In defending the purchase, Minister Benn said the machine will boost the DNA testing capability of the […]
Police and GPL Emergency crews were summoned to the Success Squatting area this morning after a couple was found electrocuted in an alleyway, leading to their home. The two dead persons were identified by relatives as Saroujnie Hansraj and Prahalal Jagnarine. The woman worked as a nurse while the man operated a taxi. The bodies […]
Days after she initially claimed that her 85-year-old aunt, Sumintra Sawh was stabbed and beaten to death by armed robbers, 35-year-old caretaker Roshanie Basdeo was this morning charged with her aunt’s murder. The West Coast Berbice woman appeared before Magistrate Peter Hugh and was not required to enter a plea to the charge that on […]
Justice Gino Persaud this afternoon ruled that there were no grounds for the Police Service Commission (PSC) to withdraw from the case challenging the legality of the suspension of former Chairman of the PSC, Paul Slowe and the other Commissioners, as he dismissed two interlocutory applications filed by the Attorney General and the PSC. “There […]
For the third time this week, Police investigators have found themselves probing the murder of an elderly woman, whose life was snuffed out by a close relative. This morning, investigators were called to 11 Princess Street in Georgetown following the murder of 75-year-old Audrey Harris. Investigators have launched a search for the woman’s mentally ill […]
A post-mortem examination conducted on the body of 75-year-old Agatha Gamell who was found murdered in her Charity, Essequibo home has listed her cause of death as multiple injuries. Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh reported that the woman’s body bore multiple injuries and wounds. The grand daughter of the elderly woman was arrested for the […]
As investigations continue into the murder of 85-year-old Bushlot, Berbice resident Sumintra Sawh, the Guyana Police Force has issued a wanted bulletin for one of her neighbours, who is the main suspect in the crime. Wanted is 48-year-old Mohammed Ramzan Shaheed. He was named as the other person involved in the crime by the great […]
After initially telling Police investigators that she was a victim of an armed robbery that saw her 85-year-old great aunt being murdered by two robbers, the great niece of the elderly woman has now admitted to investigators that she was part of the plot that saw her aunt being stabbed to death. Based on information […]
Mini-bus driver, Okemi Harry, who was caught on camera on Saturday attacking and assaulting a Traffic Police Officer appeared in Court today where he was slapped with 13 charges. Harry stood before Sparendaam Magistrates Court where he was told of the thirteen offences. He was charged with failure to wear a seatbelt, failure to carry […]
Police investigators are probing the gruesome murder of 85- year old West Berbice resident Sumintra Sawh who was found stabbed to death in her home early this mornng. In a statement, the Police Force said the investigations have revealed that the elderly woman who lived alone in her two-storey wooden and concrete house, was cared […]
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