Crime

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) on Saturday called on civil society to flood President Irfaan Ali with letters, appealing to him to get international experts to assist police in resolving the early September killing of the Henry cousins and Haresh Singh. While organisations are free to compose their messages, the GHRA suggested that religious, trade unions, corporate, professional and ...

Three prisoners early Saturday morning escaped from the Lusignan Prison  by using a bed sheet as an improvised rope to scale the fence of that East Coast Demerara penitentiary, the Guyana Prison Service said. They are murder accused 48-year old Phillip Jhogroo of Lot B3 Goed Intent, Leguan, Essequibo River; 18 year old Mark Emmanuel of Grove Sea Dam squatting ...

A man and a the mother of a baby have been arrested for allegedly being in possession of suspected amphetamine, methamphetamine and marijuana. The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) says the suspected drugs were seized from a house at 804 ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown yesterday. Those arrested are 33-year old Nyron Wilson and  a 19-year old mother. CANU says the ...

A 38-year old gold miner from Corentyne was Thursday arraigned for allegedly murdering a 16-year old girl who he met while she and her mother were drinking rum Charged with the indictable offence was Wickroy “Shatta” Mitchell of Number 53 Village, Corentyne, Berbice. He allegedly killed the 16-year old girl between 14 and 15 November at Coanna Backdam, Five Star, ...

A 16-year old boy is believed to have been accidentally shot dead by his 16-year old friend. The friend reportedly breached the lock of a secured wardrobe where a licenced .32 Taurus pistol, owned by his father, was being kept Investigators were told that after the boy took out the handgun, he showed it to the victim and accidentally pulled ...

A 16-year old girl, who was drinking rum with her mother and a man, has been found dead, police said. The teenager was living at Return, Baramita Village, North West District. The incident occurred between 14th and 15th November at Coanna Backdam, Five Star, North West. Investigators were informed that about midday Saturday, the girl and her mother went to ...

Guyana’s opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Monday presented a motion to the National Assembly, calling on police to fast-track its probe into the early September “hate” killing of three youths in West Coast Berbice. “We are here in our representative capacity to symbolically present a motion to the Parliament of which we are a part ...

A canecutter has been arrested in connection with the late Friday night stabbing death of his wife during an argument over claims that she had another relationship. Police indicated that the man became enraged after the woman, 28-year old Amrita “Sally” Rahim, threatened to move out. “The suspect was heard accusing the victim of infidelity the day before. In response ...

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has been unable to recover the scanner image of a shipping container that was suspected to have been laden with 11.5 tons of cocaine, the Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), James Singh said Friday night. “Image can’t be recovered,” he said, adding that efforts by personnel other than those from China and Guyana ...

Five persons have been arrested in an ongoing human trafficking dragnet that captured 26 Haitian nationals, government said. The Ministry of Home Affairs, in a statement Friday, said police conducted two separate operations in Georgetown and Linden. A search of a city hotel by police found a number of Haitians and a stop and search on the Mabura trail region ...