Crime

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said government was talking with the United States (US)-headquartered aviation company, Bell, to buy four helicopters for the Guyana Police Force and Guyana Defence Force as part of moves to boost the country’s defence capacity. “The army recapitalisation is a significant part of this budget too. There are significant expenditures here to expand the ...

Police on Wednesday said they were looking for a 38-year old man, who drove through a gate at his Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara residence, and killed his mother late Tuesday afternoon. Dead is 63-year old Ena Seecharran. Police were not immediately sure whether the man intentionally struck down his mother. “Police are looking for the driver who fled the ...

A man and a woman were Monday arrested by agents of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in connection with the discovery and seizure of GY$20 million worth of marijuana at Block 1, Unity, Hubu, Parika, East Bank Essequibo. CANU said the 102 “brick-like parcels” of marijuana weighing 55.2 kilogrammes were in several large bags at a house at Hubu occupied ...

The warhead that was in stuck in a five-year old girl’s throat was removed successfully and she on Friday remained hospitalised in a stable condition, the Guyana Police Force said. The girl was reportedly shot by her uncle while lying in bed after a bullet protruded a wall between the two apartments. Investigators said the prime suspect in the incident, ...

Agents of the Guyana Revenue Authority and the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) have seized a motor vessel with quantities of uncustomed beers, foreign chicken and cigarettes worth of an estimated GY$5.5 million, GRA said Thursday. “The uncustomed goods and motor vessel were secured pending the outcome of further investigations which have commenced,” GRA said. GRA said its Law Enforcement and ...

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall on Monday expressed concern that magistrates have found reasons not to set trial dates for several then officials of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) who were accused of fraud in the 2020 general and regional elections. “Magistrates after magistrates have found reasons that can’t withstand scrutiny for not proceeding to try ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday announced, at the sod turning for the new US$28.1 million Brickdam Police Station,  that the Joint Services transport capabilities would be strengthened and integrated. “What we are doing is creating an integrated joint services in terms of its asset positioning and its asset base,” he said. He explained that the helicopter, marine craft and the ...

The University of Guyana (UG) om Sunday said it reported to police the existence of fake Facebook pòst in the name of that tertiary institution. A senior UG official told Demerara Waves Online News that a report was made to the Guyana Police Force at 11.41 am. “They have replied to say they are actively working on it,” the official ...

A labourer of Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara was Saturday night stabbed to death at Haslington New Scheme by a gold miner/businessman during an argument over a cellular phone, the Guyana Police Force said Sunday. The dead man has been identified as  29-year old Otis Andy Haimchand of 183 Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara. The suspected killer’s name has not been released ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Tuesday defended the State’s decision to serve a summons to New York-based anti-government activist, Rickford Burke to attend a Guyana court for two indictable extortion charges. “None of the arguments that I have seen has pointed to a provision in the law that prohibits the service of this document overseas,” he said on his weekly ...