Crime

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on Thursday said it was concerned by reports of extra-judicial killings in Guyana including by the police force and that virtually nothing has been done to probe such deaths during a five-year long violent crime spree. “The Committee is concerned that the alleged extrajudicial killings that occurred between 2002 and 2006 have not ...

The three Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers, who were struck down by a truck on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway while on an annual 30 kilometre walk, were wearing dark clothing in the dark thoroughfare, the driver told police investigators. “The lorry driver alleges that he was proceeding South along the eastern side of Madewini Road when he suddenly saw three persons ...

A man was shot and injured Wednesday night in Warlock, East Ruimveldt after he went to enquire from five youths why they moments earlier took advantage of his stepson, the Guyana Police Force said Thursday. Investigators said they were informed that 41-year old Calvin ‘Gun Butt’ Johnson of East Ruimveldt Trench Road was shot and has been hospitalised in a ...

Three juveniles were Wednesday charged with the murder of a teenaged boy at Patentia, West Bank Demerara, police said. The Guyana Police Force said the accused appeared at the Wales Magistrate Court before Magistrate Rhondel Weaver. They were remanded to the Juvenile Holding Center until 30th April, 2024. Seventeen year old Aaron Bess was stabbed with knife and lashed with ...

A Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) Councillor has been arrested in connection with allegedly firing a handgun in Alexandee Village, Georgetown on Monday- Phagwah, police said. Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Criminal Investigations Department, Assistant Commissioner Wendell Blanhum confirmed that a report was made and an investigation was launched. He said the suspect has since been arrested and the firearm seized ...

Guyana on Sunday condemned the killing of more than 100 persons in a terrorist attack on a concert hall in Russia. The Foreign Ministry said the Guyana government “strongly condemns” the attack at the venue in Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Region of the Russian in March 22, 2024. Many others have been injured. “We hope that the injured will quickly ...

New York-based opposition activist, Rickford Burke has asked the High Court to quash the serving of a Guyana Magistrates court summons to him in New York by a Guyanese policeman, according to court documents. He wants a declaration that the purported service by Rodwell Sarabo an officer of the Guyana Police Force, in Brooklyn “is a nullity, without and in ...

The fire that burnt to death a retired Headmaster in his house at Beterverwagting was deliberately set, but so far investigators do not know who committed the act, the Guyana Fire Service said. “The cause of the fire is suspected to be malicious, with the perpetrator(s) currently unknown,” the Guyana Fire Service said Friday in its account of the blaze ...

A handyman was Thursday morning shot dead by a security guard, who is 20 years old, at an auto sales company at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, the Guyana Police Force said. The dead man has been named as 19-year old Jared Jaganand of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara. Police said the security guard, who is employed by Cerberus Security Service, ...

A school drop-out was arrested shortly after the killing of a 17-year old unemployed boy, and police are searching for another student who was allegedly involved in the homicide at Patentia, West Bank Demerara late Wednesday night. Dead is 17-year old Aaron Bess of 234 Patentia. Investigators were informed that he was walking to a shop at about 9:30 PM ...