Crime

One of the five remaining prison escapees was captured Monday shortly before 4 PM at ‘B’ Field, Sophia, police confirmed. He is Cornelius Thomas. Police said he was unarmed and there was no need for the use of force. He was seen walking along the roadway. Law enforcement authorities believed he moved across to Sophia after he was spotted Sunday ...

One of the six prisoners, who escaped from the Georgetown Prison, was recaptured Friday, police said. Commander for West Demerara, Assistant Commissioner, Leslie James said Desmond James was held. “At 22:50hrs last (Friday) night acting on info, ranks proceeded to an abandoned house on a access dam at Canal # 1 West Bank Demerara where Desmond James was arrested. He ...

Five men, including one policeman and two employees of Republic Bank, were Friday arraigned in connection with the failed bank robbery more than one week ago. A former bank employee- Jamal Haynes- was jailed for six years after he pleaded guilty to attempting to rob the bank and several other charges. The policemen charged are Constable Anfermee Blackman and Rural ...

Prisoners held at the walled Lusignan holding area early Friday morning attempted to burn down the Lusignan  Prison by hurling bottle lamps at the wooden building, but fire fighters quickly extinguished the burning objects, police said. Sources said the prisoners, numbering just about 500, began banging the door to demand that they may be moved from the swampy pasture to ...

The Guyana Prison Service is about to adopt a new governance structure that has been recommended by a Jamaica-headquartered consultancy service stemming from a fire last year that claimed the lives of 17 inmates, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan announced Thursday. He expressed confidence that the recommended governance structure that would include a Board of Governor and an Executive ...

Three employees of Medicare Pharmacy were Thursday morning arraigned on a charge of misappropriating funds and they were granted a total of  GYD$450,000 bail. Appearing before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court were 23-year old Watmattie Ramnarine, 43-year old Zalena Khan and 23-year old Salena Khan. The prosecution alleges that between September, 6,2016 and June 2,2017, while being ...

Prisoners at the Lusignan holding area have been burying weapons in the earthen area they have been occupying since last Sunday’s fire that destroyed the Georgetown Prison, but they are being searched individually before they are transferred to other jails, authorities said Thursday. Officials, meanwhile, said the actual number of escapees is six, with four being together and the two ...

Guyana hopes to surpass Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica in the amount of monies it gives to youth empowerment and employment by scrapping a multi-billion dollar subsidy to the state-owned Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) and injecting more funds from oil revenues when production begins in 2020, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan says. “This why we are making sure that the bailouts ...

Mazaruni Prison being extended; Lusignan conditions being improved At least 300 of the 1,008 prisoners, who  were displaced by last Sunday’s destruction by fire of the Georgetown Prison, have been allowed to leave the holding facility at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said Wednesday evening. He also announced that construction work at Lusignan continued Wednesday to ...

A prisoner at the Lusignan Prison holding facility was chopped by another inmate, even as authorities continued efforts to reduce the number of inmates who were moved there following last Sunday’s destruction of the Georgetown Prison. The number of inmates has been reduced from just over 1,000. Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels confirmed that an inmate was  chopped and treated ...