Crime

A West Coast Demerara man on Friday remained in custody after he was arrested allegedly with 11.4 kilogrammes of cocaine, the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) said. The agency said 39-year old Sahadeo Prasad of Grant 104 Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara during an intelligence-led operation at Cornelia Ida Public Road. CANU said they intercepted the vehicle on February 8, 2024. ...

A Guyanese man was Friday arrested by anti-drug agents with a large quantity of marijuana and ammunition, almost five years after a Guyanese man was deported from Barbados where he was convicted and jailed for marijuana and cocaine trafficking. The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) arrested Rohan “Sauce” Rambarran of Eccles Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara allegedly with 250 brick-like parcels ...

A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) parliamentarian, Annette Ferguson was Thursday freed of a criminal Cybercrime charge based on a complaint by now Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier Omar Khan, according to Attorney-at-Law Lyndon Amsterdam. Senior Magistrate Leron Daly dismissed the charge that had been laid against the former government minister on June 21, 2021. ...

A lone gunman Sunday night attacked and robbed a taxi driver of GY$6 million worth of jewellery and a cell phone as he was climbing the steps to his residence at 190 West Indian Housing Scheme, Bartica, police said. The victim has been identified as 43-year old Thakoor ‘Ricky’ Harryram. Police said no one was injured and no shot was ...

Two men were Friday night chopped to death at Alness Village, Corentyne as a result of a triangular love affair involving a woman and her former step-father, police sources said. One of the men, who was killed, exited his home after he heard the disagreement and he was chased and chopped by the killer. The suspected assailant, who is a ...

Fire fighters were Saturday morning assaulted while battling a blaze that destroyed a house in Linden and left two persons homeless, the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) said Sunday. “Regrettably, during the incident, our firefighting personnel faced assault from residents on the scene. Such actions are strongly condemned, and the matter has been reported to the police,” the fire service said. ...

Two persons, including a 16-year old boy, have been arrested in connection with the theft of GY$2 million worth of copper wire and other items from a gold mining concession that has been abandoned by the Australia-headquartered Troy Resources Limited, officials said. The Ministry of Natural Resources’ Director of Compliance, Retired Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud told Demerara Waves Online News ...

Reproduced from WABC JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) — A traveler at John F. Kennedy International Airport has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine inside of bags of jumbo shrimp, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Zacharie Scott, 22, is a citizen of the United States who lives in Guyana. He was arrested Friday ...

Wanted murder suspect Shaquawn ‘Izwe$ Alleyne has confessed to investigators that he killed his girlfriend Shonette Dover, and then disposed of her body in a shallow grave, the Guyana Police Force said Saturday. The murder suspect was captured in Suriname and arrived in Guyana Friday morning to face charges over the 2021 murder of his girlfriend. On his arrival in ...

A Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Mahdia Secondary School fire that killed 20 children last year has found that the “inferno” was linked to a number of socio-economic conditions in the mining community to which mainly girls are vulnerable. COI Chairman, Retired Major General Joseph Singh said the events and circumstances and the causes of the “appalling act of ...