Crime

Three juveniles were Wednesday charged with the murder of a teenaged boy at Patentia, West Bank Demerara, police said. The Guyana Police Force said the accused appeared at the Wales Magistrate Court before Magistrate Rhondel Weaver. They were remanded to the Juvenile Holding Center until 30th April, 2024. Seventeen year old Aaron Bess was stabbed with knife and lashed with ...

A Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) Councillor has been arrested in connection with allegedly firing a handgun in Alexandee Village, Georgetown on Monday- Phagwah, police said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Assistant Commissioner Wendell Blanhum confirmed that a report was made and an investigation was launched. He said the suspect has since been arrested and the firearm seized ...

Guyana on Sunday condemned the killing of more than 100 persons in a terrorist attack on a concert hall in Russia. The Foreign Ministry said the Guyana government “strongly condemns” the attack at the venue in Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Region of the Russian in March 22, 2024. Many others have been injured. “We hope that the injured will quickly ...

New York-based opposition activist, Rickford Burke has asked the High Court to quash the serving of a Guyana Magistrates court summons to him in New York by a Guyanese policeman, according to court documents. He wants a declaration that the purported service by Rodwell Sarabo an officer of the Guyana Police Force, in Brooklyn “is a nullity, without and in ...

The fire that burnt to death a retired Headmaster in his house at Beterverwagting was deliberately set, but so far investigators do not know who committed the act, the Guyana Fire Service said. “The cause of the fire is suspected to be malicious, with the perpetrator(s) currently unknown,” the Guyana Fire Service said Friday in its account of the blaze ...

A handyman was Thursday morning shot dead by a security guard, who is 20 years old, at an auto sales company at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, the Guyana Police Force said. The dead man has been named as 19-year old Jared Jaganand of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. Police said the security guard, who is employed by Cerberus Security Service, ...

A school drop-out was arrested shortly after the killing of a 17-year old unemployed boy, and police are searching for another student who was allegedly involved in the homicide at Patentia, West Bank Demerara late Wednesday night. Dead is 17-year old Aaron Bess of 234 Patentia. Investigators were informed that he was walking to a shop at about 9:30 PM ...

American Human Rights advocate, Laurence Helfer’s questions to the Guyana government before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) about last year’s detention of Permanent Secretary Mae Toussaint Jr. Thomas-Meerabux by United States Customs and Border Protection Agents. He pointed to her arrest as an example of alleged corruption and wanted to know what the Guyana government had been doing ...

A well-known Guyanese pilot has been found not guilty of trafficking in persons, after he was arraigned almost one year ago and placed on GY$1.3 million bail. The Bartica Magistrate Court on Thursday March 14, 2024 found Mr Charles innocent of all Trafficking in Persons (TIP) charges leveled against him by the Guyana Police Force (GPF), he said in a ...

The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is set to assist Guyana in strengthening its port security that would see the two countries using fingerprints to track down suspects. Under the agreement inked by Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn and US Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole D. Theriot, an FBI technical team would be deployed here to “support the ...