Crime

Several marijuana farms on about 12 acres of land have been destroyed by police in the Canje River area, police said Friday. This is regarded as one of the biggest marijuana eradication exercises in recent times. Police say that 12 farms on 12 acres of land between Ekura and Sand Landing in the Canje River were destroyed. In what appeared ...

A resident of La Bonne Intention was lashed to his neck with a handgun and robbed of his car and phone valued more than GYD$8 million. Twenty-six year old Kevin Gildharie told police that at about 4:30 PM yesterday, he was robbed of his car and cellular phone at Mon Repos Pasture, East Coast Demerara. Police are investigating the report ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Thursday night dug its heels in and unequivocally backed its General Secretary, David Patterson, despite the disclosure of records that he got more than GYD$1.5 million in expensive jewellery as birthday gifts while he served as Minister of Public Infrastructure from 2015 to 2020. “The AFC wishes to state categorically that it has full ...

A number of flash drives containing important human resource files about dismissals and promotions have gone “missing” the office of the Public Service Commission but there has been no sign of breakage, police said. The theft occurred between 4:30 PM on January 18 and 7:15 AM on January 19 at the commission’s office on Fort Street, Kingston, Georgetown. Other information ...

Minister of Public Works, Juan Edghill on Tuesday said a number of agencies under his ministry has provided records showing the names of former Ministers of Public Infrastructure being associated with the purchase of mostly jewellery as gifts for them. The records show that separate purchases had been authorised by the relevant accounting officers of the Maritime Administration, Transport and ...

Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Retired Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe says nothing has been stolen from his office that will affect the promotion of officers. “There is nothing there that can be stolen that can affect the work of the commission. Whoever organised the invasion… There is nothing there to be stolen to the affect the promotion,” he ...

A suspected serial robber, who was involved in a shootout with police, was early Tuesday morning arrested at the Woodlands Hospital. He has been identified as William De Abreu. At the time of his arrest at about 1 AM Tuesday , he had received treatment for a gunshot injury to his left leg. Police say he and two other persons ...

A suspect linked to the stabbing death of a labourer at Smythfield, New Amsterdam on Monday remained in custody, the Guyana Police Force said. Dead is 40-year old Mark Griffith. He was found by his sister in a trench with a stab wound to his chest. Police said he died while being treated at the New Amsterdam Hospital. Police said ...

Three men have been arrested for allegedly maliciously damaging a car at the Blankenburg gas station, West Coast Demerara after the driver honked his horn at them because they were in the pathway leading to the gasoline pump. The man, whose car has been damaged, has been identified as 49-year old Harricharran Alfred of Zeelugt New Housing Scheme, East Bank ...

A man from Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara is in police custody in connection with the seizure of a gun from his home. The 43-year old man told police that he had found the gun on the St. Cuthbert’s Mission trail. Investigators say they went to the man’s home Friday afternoon shortly before 4 PM and  found the point-38 revolver ...