Crime
UPDATE: Georgetown Prison bars sawn off in failed escape plot
CAUGHT: Stafrei Hopkinson Alexander Guyana Prison Service personnel on Friday foiled a plot by several prisoners to escape from the...
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Rice farmer killed after complaining about goats
A rice farmer is now dead after he told two villagers that goats were damaging his rice cultivation. Dead is...
Read moreDetailsJealous ex-partner kills man at woman’s house
A woman's "enraged" ex-partner stabbed to death her male friend with whom she was playing cards at her home Monday...
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Suspect in stabbing of Orthodox Jews in New York is of Guyanese parentage
Grafton Thomas (BBC photo) The man accused of stabbing five Orthodox Jews in Monsey, New York is of Guyanese parentage,...
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Bandit pleads guilty to robbing Brazilian gold miner of raw gold, cash, other items
GUILTY: Titus Valenzuela One of two men on Monday pleaded guilty to invading a mining camp and robbing a Brazilian...
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Former Health Minister Blackman released from US prison, returns to Guyana
Dr. Noel Blackman Former Guyana Minister of Health. Dr. Noel Blackman has been released from a United States (US) prison...
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Suspected bandit who attacked policeman with cutlass, accomplice arrested -police
Police Sunday morning arrested two men who allegedly robbed two foreigners of their mobile phones. One of the suspects also...
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Two nabbed at Bartica stelling with gold, cash, other items allegedly stolen from mining camp
Guyanese police on Saturday said two men admitted to stealing more than GYD$1.1 million in cash, raw gold and other...
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Decomposing bodies of ex-hotelier, co-worker found in closed Corentyne hotel
The bodies of the owner of a now closed hotel near to the Number 63 Beach, Corentyne, and an unidentified...
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Man stabbed to death early Boxing Day
A man, who was earlier seen staggering in La Penitence, Georgetown, was early Boxing Day - Thursday - stabbed to...
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