Crime

Two employees of Guy-America Security Service were arrested Monday morning in connection with the indiscriminate firing of a handgun, a police force spokesman said. He said they were slated to be charged. The spokesman confirmed that those arrested are the man who seen allegedly discharging the firearm and the other man who handed him the weapon. “Relative to a social ...

A woman said she early Sunday morning witnessed her 18-year old granddaughter stabbing to death her 27-year old husband, hours after the couple had an argument. Police on the Essequibo Coast on Sunday said they were investigating the stabbing death of the man by his wife at Macknab, Lima Sands, Essequibo Coast. Dead is  Anthony ‘Davie’ Shivlall. Police have since ...

Guyanese police on Wednesday issued a wanted bulletin for at least 12 persons for terrorism allegedly unleashed on stallholders and other persons at the Mon Repos market area almost one year ago by persons who had marched from Golden Grove to protest the police killing of a youth from their village. “Terror and mayhem were unleashed on persons on the ...

The Guyana Police Force said its Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), on Wednesday laid 268 charges of Money Laundering and conspiracy to launder over $4.1B against a Herstelling, East Bank Demerara family after close to three years of investigation. Charged are Kenneth Kellawan Ramnarine, a taxi driver, Damian Brandon Ramnarine, a salesman and Yevette Nalini Saroop, a businesswoman, all of ...

Guyanese drug trafficking convict Barry Dataram, who was nabbed in New York on arrival, is facing five counts related to his role in allegedly smuggling more than 150 kilogrammes of cocaine into that North American country. “The offenses involved at least one hundred and fifty kilograms of a substance containing cocaine,” the indictment states. The indictment states that he and ...

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Wednesday said its agents fired several shots “in the air” at Buxton, East Coast Demerara where members of the public attempted to free a suspected drug trafficker at the end of a high-speed chase. “Members of the public became hostile, assaulted several officers and damaged several of the unit’s vehicles in an attempt to ...

Armed soldiers were Wednesday afternoon dispatched to Buxton Public Road to support firefighters as they doused burning objects across the major east-west corridor before rush-hour traffic. After the fire was extinguished shortly before 3:30 PM, a frontend loader, with soldiers perched on it,  moved the burnt material off the roadway as residents of Buxton stood on the side at the ...

The Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday afternoon appealed to persons who have blocked roads in Buxton with burning tires and other debris to stop doing so, as they pressed demands for the release of a suspected narcotic trafficker. “The Ministry of Home Affairs is calling on persons engaged in the blocking of the roadways and other illegal activities to ...

Fire was Wednesday afternoon set across the Buxton Public Road after agents of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) opened fire and arrested a man allegedly with a quantity of marijuana in his possession, CANU Head James Singh said. The driver of the car has been identified as O’Darie Phillips, and the car he was driving has  a logo of “Team ...

Leader of the opposition Alliance For Change (AFC) Khemraj Ramjattan on Thursday took up Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn’s call on the floor of the National Assembly to deny any responsibility for the burning of schools in Guyana. “I disavow all violence and destruction of schools. You could write it for me and I will certainly deliver it,” Mr Ramjattan ...