Police investigators and members of the bomb squad were on Saturday night called to the Saffon Street office of Kaieteur News after a grenade was found close to the car of the newspaper’s publisher Glenn Lall.

The discovery was made as staffers congregated for a wake in memory of their fallen colleague, Dale Andrews.  Mr. Andrews, who was the newspaper’s leading crime reporter, died on Saturday morning from a heart ailment.

Following the discovery of the grenade which did not detonate, the entire area was cordoned off and Police investigators are expected to view surveillance video of the area to see if they could pick up some leads in the case.

Staffers reported that the grenade was spotted just after they heard “a rolling sound”.

The Saffon Street area is a busy traffic area with vehicles traversing the East Bank corridor all day.

The discovery of the explosive device has reignited fear among the Kaieteur News staff.  A few years back, a number of the newspaper’s pressmen were gunned down in a brazen attack at the company former printery.  There was another case when staffers were held at gunpoint in the newsroom during a robbery.

And last year, there was a whole lot of controversy after the Attorney General at the time, Anil Nandlall was recorded in a telephone conversation with a Kaieteur News reporter, warning him about the newspaper possibly coming under a violent attack over its own attacks on various persons.

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