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Author Archives: Denis Chabrol

Alleged assassination plot unbelievable, says Crime Chief after verbal battle with Commissioner of Inquiry

The Head of Criminal Investigations Department at the Guyana Police Force, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum  on Monday said an alleged plot to kill President David Granger was impossible to believe, but not before the Crime Chief and the Commissioner of Inquiry, Retired Assistant Police Commissioner, Paul Slowe engaged in a heated verbal battle. “I would say with the greatest amount ...

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Update: Seven escapees recaptured

Seven of the 13 prisoners, who escaped from the swampy area of the Lusignan Prison, were Monday evening recaptured, Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, police said. They are Winston Long and Teshawn Mc Kenzie were caught after 8PM at the Berbice Car Park, Georgetown. Police later reported that Jason Howard was caught somewhere in Georgetown and Jamal Joseph was held ...

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Police release photos of 13 prison escapees

The Joint Services have intensified efforts to apprehend a total of seventeen prisoners, following the escape last evening of an additional 13, from the open holding area at the Lusignan Prison, government’s Department of Public Information and the Guyana Police Force reported. The 13 fugitives, burrowed their way out of the holding area via a 5 ft deep tunnel. The ...

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Remaining high-risk prisoners being relocated to Georgetown ‘brick’ Prison, after 13 escape

After 13 inmates escaped from the walled swampy area at the Lusignan Prison in what Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said was an “embarrassing” situation for him, the remaining 86 were Monday afternoon being transferred to the brick prison, the lone remaining building at the Georgetown Prison complex. “The prisoners, as I speak, are being relocated. There is now need ...

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13 “real bad” prisoners escape from Lusignan Prison

Thirteen prisoners from the swamped area of the Lusignan Prison have escaped, police said. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Guyana Police Force, Senior Superintendent Wendell Blanhum confirmed tbe escape. Another police source said the prisoners dug a hole and fled the highly walled area. Heavily armed police and soldiers had been deployed around that East Coast Demerara ...

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Former Guyana Police spy chief, ‘Beetle’, found dead in US home

Former Guyana Police Force spy chief, Retired Assistant Commissioner, James Mentore has been found dead in his home in New Jersey, United States, an official of an association of former Guyanese police said Sunday. He was 85 years old. Mentore’s daughter, who is in Guyana, on Sunday declined to comment about the passing of her father who was a former ...

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East Coast Demerara businessman shot, robbed

Police Sunday morning said they were investigating a robbery under arms committed on a 58 year old businessman of North Success, East Coast Demerara. The incident occurred at about 3 O’clock Sunday morning at he and his wife’s house, during which process he was shot. Investigation revealed that the victim and his wife arrived home in their motor vehicle (Toyota ...

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Bar Association signals court action to compel president to comply with High Court orders; Granger sticks with preference for judicial person for GECOM Chairman

Even as the Guyana Bar Association signaled that a Court Order could be obtained to compel President David Granger to comply with a High Court ruling on the process of appointing a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), he maintained that preference must be for a judicial person “While the President believes that the Constitution was crafted the way ...

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Wanted man caught in barrel, four arrested- police

A man, who escaped from custody while he was a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), was Sunday morning arrested inside a barrel at a house at Agricola, East Bank Demerara. “Wanted person Marlon Jeffery who escaped from the GPHC, was this (Sunday) morning recaptured at a house in Brutus Street, Agricola. Four persons, inclusive of two females ...

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GPHC management violated law on GYD$600 million drug procurement; Public Health Minister did no wrong

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Friday said it would rely on the outcome of a probe by the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) into the purchase of GYD$632 million worth of drugs, even as it said its own investigation revealed that the hospital’s management allegedly violated a decision to follow the legal process of going through the National Procurement ...

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