Crime

Two enforcement agents of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) were Thursday night shot and injured during a shootout with smugglers in the Mahaica Creek. Commissioner General of the GRA, Godfrey Statia says they the two did not sustain life-threatening injuries. He says the smugglers are known and the GRA will be going after them. Mr. Statia says the suspected smugglers ...

A 44-year old man was Thursday arrested for allegedly being in possession of a large quantity of marijuana at a house in Lodge, Georgetown.  Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit, James Singh says the local and foreign marijuana was seized during raids. Initial estimates are that the marijuana weighed about 140 pounds.  He says anti-drug agents found the marijuana during ...

A woman, who was accused of threatening to kill a man, allegedly pelted a cup at Police Constable  when he and a colleague they went to investigate the report at Williamsburg, Corentyne, police said. Constable Travis Cort was identified as the lawman who was injured in the incident at  about 7:49 Wednesday night. Police said that the woman has not ...

Guyana Defence Force Lance Corporal 26-year old Daniel Fraser and his partner were shot and killed last night in Sophia by a lone gunman, police said. The woman, who died in the incident that occurred at about 11:30 Wednesday night, has been identified as 23-year old Shanicka Forde, an unemployed who was residing in Barbados. Police said was staying at ...

An 18-year old man from St. Ignatius, Rupununi has been ordered to provide community service and pay a GY$15,000 fine after he was convicted for being in possession of two grammes of marijuana, police said. Cyril Miguel age 18 years was arrested on Monday and was charged on Tuesday with being in possession of the marijuana for the purpose of ...

A 56-year old Venezuelan man has been arrested for allegedly being in illegal possession of two shotguns on the Black Banana access trail in the North West District he Guyana Police Force said Elvis Bartolo Pacheco, who is a miner at Baramita, North West District, was held on Monday afternoon with one 12-gauge shotgun and one 16-gauge shotgun Police said ...

Suriname’s former President Desi Bouterse’s 20-year jail sentence for the murder of 15 persons while he had been a military ruler in 1982 was Monday morning confirmed. Starnieuws reports that Bouterse was not in court, saying he was sick and no arrest has been ordered. The session lasted a very short time. No new facts have emerged, the Court Martial concluded. ...

Firefighters Saturday night contained a blaze to a house at Coghlan Dam, West Bank Demerara but the lone occupant sustained burns and was rushed to a nearby hospital, police said. Investigators said they believed that the 45-year old man, who is “believed to be of unsound mind”, set the fire and fled the scene on arrival of the police. The ...

Ten men have been arrested in connection with the late Saturday night killing of a man at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne, Berbice after he asked them to remove from outside his premises where they had been drinking and using indecent language, police said. Dead is 6o-year old Rishi Barrat of Lot 10 Grant 106 Crabwood Creek. Police said they are treating ...

One of three persons was Friday arrested in connection with the gunpoint robbery of a woman  who had just arrived at her Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara home from a bank at Diamond, police said. The woman alleged that she was robbed of US$1,500 , GY$290,000, an iPhone XR and several documents. She told police that as she turned on ...