Crime

A 19-year old man of ‘A’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was robbed of GYD$430,000 in cash and other valuables, by  two men, police said. The incident occurred at about 1 O’clock Friday afternoon by two men, one of who was armed with a handgun. The victim told police that he was at home sitting in the kitchen area, participating in ...

A 23-year old woman was Saturday morning arrested at the Eugene F. Correia ‘Ogle’ Airport with cocaine in her vagina moments before she was due to board a flight to Barbados, police said. The Guyana Police Force said the woman also admitted to swallowing 73 cocaine pellets. Investigators said anti-narcotics police requested to conduct a search after she was seen ...

A West Demerara businessman has been shot and robbed of GYD$500,000 on the Eccles Public Road, East Bank Demerara, police s The incident occurred Wednesday evening at about 6 PM The victim has been identified as  36 year-old Nandkumar Bahadur, who owns Kumar Varieties Store at De Willem Public Road. Police say the bandits also stole personal documents. Mr. Kumar ...

A woman, who was wanted by Guyanese police as part of an investigation into the killing of an elderly West Demerara shop owner, has been handed over by Surinamese police to their Guyanese counterparts. Police say 27-year old Samantha Khan, also known as Tapsie, of Grassfield, Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, has been handed over to Guyanese police. Police say she ...

A 21-year old man of Corentyne, Berbice is wanted for the killing of Anglican priest, George Chuck-a-Sang late last year. Police say Orlando Orin Ormando Richards of Gibraltar Road, Corentyne is wanted for the murder of the priest. Father Chuck-a-Sang’s badly stabbed body was discovered on December 21 at a house in the compound of the St. Sidwell’s Anglican Church, ...

The father of one of the four escapees from the Mazaruni Prison has admitted that he gave support to his son and the three others when they turned up at his house early Tuesday morning, the Guyana Police Force said. The Guyana Police Force says Mr. Ralph Jones of Fourth Avenue, Bartica admitted to police that his son, Rayon Jones, ...

Guyana on Wednesday asked the United States (US) for assistance to locate a drifting boat believed to have as much as 10 decomposed bodies, after aerial and sea operations failed to spot the vessel that was first seen on Monday afternoon, the Maritime Administration (MARAD) said. “The Maritime Administration Department has published a Navigational Warning via the US National and  ...

The Ethnic Relations Commission, (ERC), has taken seven persons to court for allegedly exciting racial hostility. The ERC says five of them have pleaded guilty and have been fined. Three of them allegedly committed the offence in December, 2020 and four in January, 2021. John Gobin, Lashonna Chester, Stacy Smartt, Glynis Gibson and Tiffany Greene were all fined after they ...

Three men were Tuesday  granted bail after appearing in court for unlawful possession of weapons found in their possession by police. Police say they found two 9 MM pistols,  three magazines, thirty-two 9mm live rounds and fifty twelve gauge shotgun cartridges in a house at Port Mourant, Corentyne one week ago. The firearms and ammunition were lodged and the suspects ...

Search and recovery experts believed that a vessel, with a number of decomposed bodies, seen adrift in the Atlantic sea offshore Guyana might have drifted from as far as Africa and eventually sank overnight Monday in bad weather. Director Maritime Safety, Retired Coast Guard Commander John Flores said the vessel, which is fairly deep, might have accumulated sea water or ...