Crime

A bandit grabbed a shoemaker’s needle, stabbed him to his chest and robbed him of GYD$17,000 cash Twenty-five year old Michael Ramcharran told police that at about 7:30 PM Thursday, he was in the the vicinity of Beardman Gas Station, Independebce Street, West Bank Demerara when he was attacked by three men one of whom stabbed him. “He was approached ...

Police say they have combed the back lands of Number Two and Number Three Villages, West Coast Berbice but have found no evidence related to the killing of Joel and Isaiah Henry. The search was conducted yesterday by 75 soldiers and police. They were accompanied by Government Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh during the search that lasted 7 AM to 2 ...

Guyana and the United States (US) would be activating a 19-year old Shiprider Agreement that would allow the two countries to interdict drug traffickers, the US State Department said ahead of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit. “Following the Secretary’s visit, a bilateral Shiprider Agreement will come into force, enabling joint maritime and airspace patrols to interdict narcotics,” according to ...

The Guyana Police Force Monday evening said the youthful Henry cousins were killed elsewhere and their bodies taken to where a search Party found them. “Preliminary findings showed that the bodies of the Henry boys were discovered at a secondary crime scene, meaning that the heinous murders were not committed where the bodies were found,” police said in an update, ...

A second aircraft was Monday afternoon found in the Issano area with a dead man and a quantity of suspected cocaine, police said. The identity of the pilot was not immediately known, but Region Seven Police Commander Superintendent Dion Moore said the crashed plane is a Beechcraft. The registration markings were not yet available. Mr. Moore said agents of the ...

Police say two Brazilians and a Venezuelan were late Sunday arrested after they landed aboard a plane on the Issano Airstrip in Middle Mazaruni. Nothing illegal was found aboard the Cessna 206 bearing registration marking, PR-FMJ. Those arrested after the red and white plane landed at about 10:20 PM were a 38 year old pilot, from Boa Vista Brazilian; a ...

The Guyana Police Force on Sunday remained virtually tight-lipped for a fourth straight day on the status of investigations into the several killings on the West Coast Berbice over the past week. Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn also could not provide any useful information, instead merely saying that the police were continuing their investigations and he would prefer not to ...

Hours before the mutilated bodies of the two slain teenagers were began the long journey from Georgetown to West Coast Berbice for burial, fresh calls were issued for Guyana’s race relations problem to put on the national agenda of political leaders and other stakeholders. Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes, Chairman of the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana ...

Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Volda Lawrence and Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Sunday issued separate calls for justice for the teenage Henry cousins whose chopped bodies were found aback West Coast Berbice one week ago. But the two PNCR Executive members appeared to differ on the approach, with Ms. Lawrence continuing to strike a more conciliatory ...

In the wake of an eruption of racially motivated physical violence during protests against the killing and mutilation of two youths in the backlands of West Coast Berbice, President Irfaan Ali  on Friday said government has begun taking steps to crack down on hate speech Online. “The use of social media for the promotion of racial hate for political purpose ...