Crime

The High Court on Tuesday granted permission for two customs officers to remain in custody beyond 72 hours, even as the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) remained optimistic that it would recover a deleted image of shipping container believed to have been laden with 11.5 tons of cocaine. “They have not yet completed the exercise. By tomorrow this time,” GRA Commissioner-General ...

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is making efforts to recover a scanner image of one of  the scrap metal containers in in which 11.5 tons of cocaine worth more  than GYD$220 billion have been busted by Belgian authorities. Sources believed that there was some collusion to delete the image from  the system, but the Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority ...

The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) was Sunday awaiting scanner images of the shipping container of scrap metal that ended up in Belgium with 11.5 tons of cocaine worth  GYD$220 billion cocaine, CANU Chief James Singh said. He said records showed the container was scanned and so he was expecting the images to be provided either  Sunday or Monday. Belgian authorities ...

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Sunday said there are other international agencies that could help probe the killing of the three teenagers on the West Coast Berbice in early September, but he and Police Commissioner Nigel Hoppie are mum on why the trousers found on one of the boys was not DNA tested. “I cannot speak to that issue ...

The Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit, James Singh on Saturday offered protective custody to a suspect in the 11.5 ton cocaine bust in Belgium last week, even as investigators grilled a number of customs officers about the absence of no scanner images for the shipping container. Wanted for questioning is Marlon Primo of MA Trading registered at 35 Factory ...

A man, believed to be of unsound mind walked up to Roman Catholic Bishop, Francis Alleyne  and  assaulted and robbed him while he was presiding over Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Brickdam, Georgetown. Armed with what appeared to be a sharp pointed object, the man walked up to Bishop Alleyne and Deacon Francis. He then grabbed ...

The shipment of scrap metal, in which 11.5 tonnes of cocaine were discovered stashed on arrival  in Belgium, had transited the French Overseas Department of Guadeloupe, the Head of  Guyana’s Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh said Friday night. He said the broker has been arrested and investigators are looking for the shipper – Marlon Primo- who is the brother ...

Shawn Neblett, an ex-policeman was Friday extradited to the United States (US) to face drug trafficking charges, an American embassy spokeswoman said. From all accounts, he lost his defence before a Guyana Magistrates’ court to show cause why he should not extradited to the US, The US Embassy spokeswoman confirmed that Neblett was removed from Guyana on Friday in accordance ...

The  Guyana government appeared unwilling fund a  Argentines and Spain forensic experts to visit Guyana to investigate the killing and mutilation of the teenage Henry cousins, saying that could set the stage for similar demands in the future. “If we set precedent of this nature, then every person, we brought in a Caricom team, then every person will bring in ...

Guyana’s Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) has released two shippers in connection with the 11.5 ton cocaine bust in Belgium, and has since begun hunting several other persons even as international cooperation continues apace, a top anti-drug agent said Friday. CANU Head James Singh declined to confirm whether Belgian law enforcement agencies would be providing shipping container seals to track down ...