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The county of Berbice is emerging as the hotspot for marijuana cultivation and trafficking with the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit carrying out a number of operations across the Berbice region. In an operation on Tuesday, CANU agents arrested two men as they traversed the Manarabisi canal in Corentyne in a speed boat with more than […]
A father of four who was riding his electric bicycle in the bicycle lane along Mandela Avenue was crushed to death on Monday evening after he was hit down by a sand truck. The dead man has been identified as 45-year-old Hawatt Greenidge. The truck driver, Trinidadian national Fazal Mohammed, who lives in Diamond has […]
Two reporters who have been fingered in an alleged extortion plot against car dealer Afras Mohamed appeared in Court this morning to face charges. The two, 49-year-old Alex Wayne and 41-year-old Gary Eleazer appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore and pleaded not guilty to the joint charges of conspiracy to commit a felony. The presiding Magistrate […]
A family outing to Linden on Sunday turned into tragedy after 17-year-old Nazana Samaroo of Little Diamond Squatting Area, lost her life by drowning. The young girl was in the company of her mother, foster father and siblings during a visit to a creek in the mining town on Sunday. According to a Police statement, […]
Additional mechanisms will be put in place soon that will require persons seeking employment at the various ports to be cleared by the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD), as it steps up port security, and increase training and investment with support from Chile. Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill made the announcement today while delivering remarks […]
Acting on a tip-off, CANU agents were able to seize 120 pounds of marijuana that was being transported in a Route 50 mini-bus on Saturday along the East Coast railway embankment. In a statement last evening, the drug enforcement agency announced the arrest of 58-year-old driver Lal Bahadur Byjoo of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice. […]
Two former news reporters have been arrested by the Police in an alleged extortion plot that reportedly targeted a popular East Coast Demerara car dealer. The suspects, Alex Wayne and Gary Eleazer, are accused of demanding $90 million from the car dealer to remove an article from Facebook that allegedly accused the car dealer of […]
A murder-suicide case in the Essequibo coast village of Riverston has left family members devastated and a community in shock. This morning Police investigators rushed to a rice field in the Riverston area after a woman filed a complaint that her daughter was being threatened by her reputed husband who was a Police officer. By […]
As Police investigators widen their probe into the theft of $400 million worth of raw gold from the home of a Mahaica businesswoman, the Police Force issued wanted bulletins today for three additional suspects in the case. Wanted bulletins were issued this afternoon for 22-year-old Mark Singh of Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, 27-year-old Andray Duncan […]
Marijuana remains the most trafficked drug in Guyana with the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) seizing approximately 2200 kilograms of cannabis during the first six months of 2022. That illicit drug is followed by cocaine. Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), James Singh, in his mid-year report disclosed that during the first quarter of 2022 […]
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