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Twenty two remand prisoners who were behind bars for minor non-violent offences were offered bail today as six Magistrates held special bail hearing at the Lusignan Prison, where hundreds of prisoners were taken following Sunday’s devastating fire and prison break at the Camp Street jail. The decision to hold the special hearings was taken at […]
As more details continue to unravel in the Camp Street prison break probe, Police investigators today questioned a woman who claims that four men, believed to be the prison escapees, forced her and her children out of her friend’s car on Sunday afternoon and took the friend hostage. The 22-year-old man, Matthew Shivtahal, has not […]
Police have identified two more prison escapees and have issued wanted bulletins for their arrests. A statement identified Stafrei Hopkenson Alexander who was on remand for murder. This is the second time he has escaped lawful custody. Last year, he escaped custody at the Mackenzie Police Station but was rearrested. He was charged with the […]
The morning of Sunday, July 9, started off like any other Sunday morning in the Wickham household at Ann’s Grove on the East Coast of Demerara. When Prison Officer and beloved son, Odinga Wickham, left for his job at the Camp Street jailhouse ear;y on Sunday morning, his mother and other family members never thought […]
Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan, while recognizing that the two last major fires and prison unrests at the Camp Street jail took place under his watch as Security Minister, does not believe that he should step down from his post. In wake of Sunday’s jailbreak and fire at the Camp Street jail, there were scores […]
Five inmates who were housed at the Camp Street Prison have escaped and efforts are underway to ensure they are recaptured, Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud has confirmed. During a late-night press conference with Heads of the security forces, Persaud said that among the five escapees is Royden Williams who was recently sentenced to death for […]
Chaos enveloped the Camp Street area on Sunday afternoon as a major fire engulfed the Georgetown prison during a jail break. Security officials are reporting that four prisoners are on the run. At least seven prison officers were rushed to the Georgetown Hospital with serious injuries including gunshot injuries. The escaped prisoners are believed to be […]
Senior officers of the Guyana Police Force have confirmed that they have arrested two of their own as the probe widens into last Tuesday’s failed robbery attempt at the Republic Bank Water Street branch. The two policemen, a rural constable and a regular rank, were arrested on Thursday as investigators retrieved surveillance camera footage from […]
A Guyanese man who was caught on CARICOM day with several packets of cocaine in his stomach at the Eugene Correia Airport at Ogle, was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to the drug trafficking charge. The man, 35-year-old Eaison Le-Blanc appeared before Magistrate Leron Daly and entered plea of guilty to […]
The governing APNU+AFC coalition has announced its intention to give more attention to developing Guyana’s manufacturing and services industries and is pushing ahead with plans to expand and diversify the national economy. More resources are likely to be pumped into the development of the manufacturing and services industry. The government said it has decided to […]
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