Crime

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has seized 80 kilogrammes or 176 pounds of marijuana with a street value of over GY$25,000,000 in Corentyne, Berbice, the agency said Sunday. According to CANU, its agents were on an operation on December 9 to 10 between the Sandaka pump station, Skeldon and Goat Dam area of the village of Line Path, Corentyne, Berbice. ...

A 19-year-old man was arrested early Saturday morning in Region Nine (Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo) for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl after a drinking spree, police said. “While transporting the victim back home (she was intoxicated) the suspect stopped the car and forcefully committed the act without her consent,” the Guyana Police Force said. Investigators were informed that the girl and ...

Police were Sunday searching for a man who allegedly killed a gold miner of Lethem who was working at Turtle Creek, Five Star, North West District. Dead is 38-year-old Victor Pedro. Police said he was killed at about 7 o’clock Friday night at a campground kitchen for workers and cooks, owned by Pedro. Pedro’s 13-year-old daughter reportedly told police that ...

A supervisor of Kissoondyal Enterprise Inc’s rice mill was Friday allegedly robbed of GY$3.4 million that should have been used to pay workers and rice farmers, police said. The woman told police that the incident occurred on Friday shortly after she arrived at the Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara-based rice mill with the cash from a bank in Georgetown. “On arrival ...

The Guyana Power and Light’s Chief Executive Officer, Bharat Dindyal said the power company plans to intensify efforts to go after electricity thieves “We have actually resumed recently a focus on prosecuting people for electricity theft. That is going to be our major focus next year . We have to reintroduce that prosecution,” he told a news conference. He said ...

Three health  sector workers have been charged in connection with forged vaccination cards and were granted a total of $450,000 bail, the Guyana Police Force said. The law enforcement agency said 32-year old Screening Personnel Andel Valentine of Lot 2136 La Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara and 29-year old Nurse Teneka Pollard of Lot 109 Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara ...

The possession of designer drugs such as ecstasy, methamphetamines and other ‘designer drugs would now be made illegal with an amendment to the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act , amid increasing use of these substances by youths. “This will ensure that persons in possession of these substances will be charged and prosecuted accordingly,” according to the explanatory memorandum. Experts say ...

Guyana Police Force investigators will soon be able to take DNA samples from suspects who have been arrested, according to a proposed amendment to the Police Act. “The effect of this amendment is that in addition to measurements, photographs and fingerprint impressions, a member of the force can take and record DNA information of a person  in lawful custody for ...

A man has been shot and injured after he attacked police with a cutlass and broken bottles, the Guyana Police Force said. Injured is 36-year old Marlon Brewster of South Amelia’s Ward, Linden. The Guyana Police Force says its Office of Professional Responsibility is probing the shooting on December 1. Investigators say police were probing a report of alleged simple ...

A top Suriname military officer has been arrested allegedly with more than 500 kilogrammes of cocaine, Surinamese media reported Sunday. He has been identified only as 56-year old Lieutenant  Steven J.  Waterkant.net reported that about $10,000 in cash was also found and seized in the vehicle he was driving. He was arrested at Saturday evening, December 4, near the checkpoint ...