APNU questions gov’t about recent bombings

Last Updated on Tuesday, 4 November 2025, 20:39 by Writer

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has questioned the Guyana government’s security preparedness for the three bombings that have rocked sections of the capital, targeting key infrastructure and killing one person.

Shadow Home Affairs Minister Sherod Duncan has tabled a question in the National Assembly, asking the Minister of Home Affairs, Oneidge Walrond, to say whether a national threat assessment bulletin was issued between May and October 2025 identifying critical infrastructure risks, and, if so, when and to whom.

Two separate but simultaneous explosions on May 17 damaged the Ruimveldt Police Outpost on cemetery road and the base of a Guyana Power and Light utility pole at the substation on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown. No one was injured unlike the October 26 explosion at the Mobil gas station on Regent and King streets where a six-year-old girl was killed and four others seriously injured.

Referring to the incidents at the police station and the power company’s infrastructure, Mr Duncan is also asking the Home Affairs Minister whether an internal after-action review (AAR) has been commissioned on the two prior IED (improvised explosive device) incidents, and what the review recommendations were.

Mr Duncan also wants to know what intelligence, if any, was received concerning the entry of Spanish-speaking nationals now implicated in the Oct 26 attack. Police had detained nine persons including five Guyanese and four Venezuelans including the Venezuelan man who confessed to the gas station bombing.

Pictures , without names, of three Spanish-speaking men had been circulated shortly after the attacks in May.

Mr Duncan also wants the Home Affairs Minister to inform the National Assembly about the mechanisms that exist for real-time sharing of cross-border alerts among immigration, Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) and the Guyana Police Force.