Crime

A lawyer, who was arrested more than one year ago at the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) while representing her client, has received a High Court-ordered apology and GY$700,000 in compensation. A day after Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire issued the orders in favour of Attorney-at-Law, Tamieka Clarke, the arresting officer Police Superintendent Krishnadat Ramana and the Head ...

Georgetown Mayor Alfred Mentore on Monday told vendors, who ply their trade outside Muneshwer’s Store on Water and Commerce Streets that he was negotiating for them to remain there until January 15. “Ideally, from what I’ve gotten and from the discussions I’ve had, I’m pretty sure that you vendors will be able to remain there at least to January the ...

A United States (US)-based man is wanted for alleged trafficking of firearms and ammunition that were discovered in a barrel at the Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) wharf, Lombard Street, Georgetown. Wanted is 56-year old Andrew Marcus Llewelyn Fraser of 1582 Larkspur Trl, Conyers, Georgia 30012 Police said the guns and ammunition were found in November 17.  The Guyana Police ...

A taxi driver of Naamryck, Parika, East Bank Essequibo has been severely beaten and his neck cut by five Venezuelan men who had seemingly hired him to take them to Ruby Backdam. Investigators said the badly injured and blood-soaked 46-year old Shon Smith was rescued by two men and rushed to a hospital where he was admitted and later discharged. ...

The lifeless body of a  32-year old woman was found Sunday afternoon with a broken Guinness bottle in her left side chest in a hotel room, the Guyana Police Force said. Investigators said they have retrieved surveillance video footage and are searching for a man who checked in at Sunset Hotel, David Street and Stanley Place, Kitty, Georgetown with the ...

A Georgetown Public Hospital doctor was early Sunday morning robbed of her Iphone by a man who rushed into her yard shortly after she parked her car, police said. No one was injured during the incident that occurred at about 12:30 am. Investigators did not name the doctor but said she is 29 years old. Police said they were making ...

Even as the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) announced on Thursday that Bibi Gopaul would be recalled to continue serving her 25-year sentence for the murder of her daughter, Neesa Gopaul, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said those responsible for her premature release of the woman could be punished. “When a full investigation is held, the question of accountability will have to ...

A 23-year old man from Buxton, East Coast Demerara was shot dead Saturday morning in the neighboring village of Annandale after he allegedly opened fire on a police patrol, police said. The Guyana Police Force said Joseph Fiffee was “allegedly involved in a spate of robberies between Annandale and Non Pareil village. Police said members of anti-crime patrol shot him ...

Three persons were early Sunday morning arrested for allegedly attempting to scam a number of Automatic Teller Machines (ATM), police said. The Guyana Police Force said at about 12:15 Sunday morning detectives from its Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters arrested the woman and two men who scammers who were under surveillance after a report was made that they were targeting ...

Opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, David Patterson is demanding that the State pays him GY$25 million as compensation for breach of his constitutional rights because he was blocked by the immigration department from leaving Guyana to travel to the United States (US). Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes told Attorney General Anil Nandlall on October 10, 2023 that ...