Crime

A resident of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara has been fined $25,000 and ordered to provide community service at the police station in that East Coast Demerara village, police said Forty-one year Michael Clarke also known as Osafo Kasy of 42 Quamina Road pleaded guilty to cultivating a prohibited plant in violation of the Narcotic Drug and Pyschotropic Substances Act. He ...

A 20-year old man, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison where he is serving time for robbery under arms, was Wednesday morning recaptured, the Guyana Prison Service said. “It is alleged that the accused was working on the prison farm when a truck entered the prison compound through the eastern gate and the suspect exited the said gate and made ...

Two persons have been jointly charged today in relation to the alleged murder committed on Dr. Colin Roach earlier this month, police said. They are 19-year old Hilton Oliver Franklin and 18-year old Lenrick Byass. Police alleged that they murdered Dr Roach on the 2nd November, 2021 at his International Medical Clinic at 111 Duke Street, Kingston “in the course ...

Seven staff members of the Georgetown City Council’s Treasurer’s Department have been fired for alleged gross misconduct. The Local Government Commission says the decision was made unanimously to summarily dismiss the workers, following an internal probe while they had been sent on leave. “At the conclusion of the investigation, it was determined that the seven individuals were direct participants in ...

The suspect in the killing of Dr. Colin Roach at his medical practice is taxi driver and bartender, police said. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Guyana Police Force, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum said Hilton Franklin was “cooperating” with investigators. Police said Franklin was arrested at about 5:45 AM Friday at the Corentyne ‘Back Track’ as he was ...

Police say that 38-year old Andre Collison, also known as DJ Choppy, of Bartica, Essequibo River was early Friday morning stabbed to death at Puruni Landing during an argument over money. Investigators were informed that about 1 AM, Collison left his room in search of food and went to “Two Blessed Sisters Restaurant” and made an order. “While waiting to ...

The prime suspect in the brutal killing of Dr Colin Roach has been arrested, a day after the medical practitioner’s vehicle was found abandoned, a top police officer said Friday. Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum says the suspect was arrested in Corentyne at the Back Track in an an apparent attempt to escape to neighbouring Suriname. “Yes he was arrested in ...

A foreign plane without any visible registration marking on Thursday evening landed at the Mahdia airstrip in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), a senior aviation official said. There were no immediate reports of anything illegal aboard the twin-engine Piper Seneca plane. According to the source, the pilot is a Venezuelan and the passenger is a Colombian. An aviation source remarked that once ...

A 16-year old boy, who was part of a group of males who allegedly robbed a housewife of her gold chain at the Stabroek Market Square, was Wednesday shot dead by her husband who  is a policeman, the Guyana Police Force said. Dead is Sydel Bourne of Agricola, East Bank Demerara. Investigators were informed that the plainclothes policeman opened fire ...

A well-known City doctor was Tuesday night found dead at his medical clinic on Duke Street, Kingston and two men have since been arrested. He is 49-year old Colin Roach of Windsor Estates, East Bank Demerara.  Police say two employees of his International Medical Clinic on Duke Street, Kingston have since been arrested. Dr. Roach was a former chairman of ...