Crime

Police early Thursday morning rescued a taxi driver from his car trunk after shooting and injuring two suspected bandits and arresting two other accomplices in a yard in the vicinity of Hunter Street, Georgetown, the Guyana Police Force said. The law enforcement agency said that after a high-speed chase, a white Allion car, bearing license plate PSS2705, crashed into a ...

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Wednesday sought to discredit claims by embattled Sergeant Dion Bascom that there was a cover up the gunning down of Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes more than one year ago outside Palm Court, Georgetown. Instead, that law enforcement agency said it was getting international help in the hope of bringing to justice those responsible for ...

Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken and Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes on Wednesday differed on whether Sergeant Dion Bascom was available to investigators about his damning allegations against a senior police officer and two other persons in the gunning down of Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes last year. Mr Hughes also said President Irfaan Ali has not responded to his request for “witness protection” ...

Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes on Monday formally asked President Irfaan Ali t0 provide witness protection for an undercover Guyanese policeman who has implicated at least one his colleagues of deliberately botching an investigation into the gunning down of Ricardo “Paper Shorts” Fagundes in March, 2021 in exchange for GY$30 million. “We are further instructed to request as we hereby do, that ...

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has filed an estimated GY$50 million lawsuit against Chinese businessman Su Zhi Rong for defamatory statements against him in reports by American news media entity, Vice News. The privately-owned independent newspaper, Stabroek News, has reported that Su’s whereabouts were unknown. Mr. Jagdeo has denied collecting bribes through Su, as a middleman, from Chinese investors. Since then, ...

The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) wants to work even more closely with Guyana to pursue perpetrators of organised crimes such as drugs traffickers, money launderers and human traffickers, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Tuesday. “The team wishes to intensify its relationship with the Government of Guyana in the investigation, prosecution, and in securing convictions in these types ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday said he again asked the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for help to crackdown on persons on American soil who are allegedly spewing race hate and fomenting terrorism in Guyana. “He informed the team that the State of Guyana has already lodged formal complaints with various important offices and agencies in the ...

The United States government said Guyana needed t0 do more to enforce its raft of financial crimes laws, American Ambassador to Guyana Sarah-Ann Lynch told the opening of a workshop to strengthen efforts to forfeit the assets of criminals. “Guyana has legislation that provides for asset recovery but there is a need to build capacity on how to effectively implement ...

The Guyana government is worried that Venezuelan secret agent operatives might be among migrants who are fleeing the harsh socio-economic and political conditions in that neighbouring South American nation. “You could understand the security dilemma we face that in the migrants could be embedded Venezuelan agents and so this is not something that we don’t appreciate, that we are looking ...

A Colombian and a Brazilian, who landed a cocaine-laden plane illegally last week on the Mahdia Airstrip, were Wednesday fined almost GY$1 billion and jailed for several years, the Guyana Police Force said. Police said Colombian pilot, 42-year old Rodrigues Estiven and Brazilian co-pilot 24-year Mateus Vinicius Alberto were convicted for being in possession of  640 pounds of cocaine for ...