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Crime

Security guard allegedly points cocked gun at Minister Broomes during parking lot brawl

The Guyana Police Force was Monday continuing to probe an alleged brawl between Junior Minister of Natural Resources, Simona Broomes and two security guards that led to one of the security guards allegedly  cocking his gun and pointing it at her, police sources said. Investigators are expected to review surveillance video footage captured by cameras at the Massey Supermarket Parking ...

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CANU apparently breaks up cocaine pellet-smuggling ring; four arrested

A New York-bound 19-year old woman, who excreted 44 pellets after she was intercepted at Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International Airport, was among four persons arrested Friday, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU). The law enforcement unit said the woman was an outgoing passenger on Flight BW 526 destined for JFK International Airport. She was suspected to have swallowed cocaine pellets and was ...

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New York man arrested for arson, insurance fraud on return from Guyana

A man from Warrensburg, New York is accused of setting fire to his vehicle, then reporting it stolen to police and his insurance company, media reports say. Terrance Blenman,39, left the country last December after filing those reports. He was arrested this week at JFK Airport in New York City when he returned from Guyana. The Saratoga County Sheriff’s Department ...

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Six arrested in separate cocaine bust at Cheddi Jagan Airport

Five men, including a shipper, on Tuesday, remained in custody after Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) agents said they found several packets of cocaine under a vehicle at Cheddi Jagan International Airport CANU said on July 2, 2018 at 11 O’clock Monday night the men, including,  shipper Navindra Sarwan, were arrested in relation to suspected cocaine found under the vehicle of the ...

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Two suspected bandits seriously injured; car driver in police custody

Two male bandits suspected to have been seriously injured during a robbery at Alliance, Canal # 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara are currently being sought by police whilst the driver of a car reportedly used to transport the perpetrators, is being interrogated, the Guyana Police Force said in a statement. “The vehicle which after a “brief pursuit” by the police ...

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Bandits cart off millions of dollars in jewellery from Stabroek Market’s L.Seepersaud Maraj jewellery store

Bandits broke into the well-known Guyanese jewellery store, L. Seepersaud Maraj in the Stabroek Market, and carted off a large quantity of jewellery, leaving the proprietors baffled. Mr. Maraj told Demerara Waves Online News that he could not immediately estimate his losses until he goes through his stock records, but they are certainly less than GY$100 million. “Sometime last (Monday) ...

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Thieves invade home, beat poultry farmer’s wife, steal almost GY$600,000 in cash, other items

Thieves early Saturday morning invaded a home at Kuru Kururu, Soesdyke-Linden Highway and beat a poultry farmer and his mother before escaping with cash and several items totalling GY$597,000. There were no reported injuries to an 11-month old boy who is the son of the poultry farmer and his wife. Police sources said 30-year old Rebekah Seabra retired to bed ...

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Former Guyanese politician convicted of terrorism plot dies in US prison

Abdul Kadir, a former People’s National Congress (PNC) parliamentarian and former Mayor of Linden,  died in a United States (US) prison, eight years after he was convicted on terrorism charges. He was 66 years old. Relatives confirmed that Kadir  died at Thursday morning at a prison medical facility after complaining of feeling unwell. Kadir, born Michael Seaforth, was arrested in ...

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Jealous Venezuelan man killed after cutting off his female companion’s hair; suspect arrested

A jealous Venezuelan man, who cut off his female partner’s hair because she danced with a Brazilian man, was stabbed to death early Saturday morning by a gold miner who intervened in the fracas. The gold miner has since been arrested and is in police custody and is expected to be charged with murder, police said. Dead is 27-year old Rafael ...

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