Crime

A 19-year-old man is wanted for the shooting death of another man and injury to a two-month-old baby girl at Graham’s Hall, East Coast Demerara, the Guyana Police Force said. Police were told that the wanted man, whose identity was not released by police, was told moments before the gunshot by the now deceased man, 29-year-old Anthony “One Natty” Haynes ...

The New Amsterdam branch of R. Sookraj and Sons General Store has been ransacked and more than GY$400,000 worth of items have been stolen, police said Wednesday. “The businessman made checks in his store and observed that his office was ransacked and a number of items including cigarettes, Digicel credit cards, and electronic items valued over $400,000 were missing,” the ...

A man, who allegedly attempted to smuggle marijuana into the Camp Street Prison by concealing the narcotic in a bowl of soup for an inmate, was arrested on New Year’s Day at that penitentiary, the Guyana Prison Service (GPS) said Tuesday. “While the items were being checked at the self-support area, prison staff discovered the leaves, seeds and stems suspected ...

An Assistant at the Lands and Surveys Commission was shot dead and another man was seriously by bandits who invaded a wedding house at Canal Number 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara late Old Year’s Night 2023. Investigators said 40-year-old Natram ‘Vishal’ Persaud, an Assistant at the Lands and Survey Department and of Lot 43 Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara was shot ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Monday-New Year’s Day 2024- said the serving of summonses to New York-based Guyanese opposition activist, Rickford Burke, is a sign of the further deterioration of human rights by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC)-led administration. “Its assault on our freedoms of expression and association reached even more dangerous heights, as the recent court summons served ...

President Irfaan Ali on Monday- New Year’s Day 2024- announced that steps would be taken to reduce the number of traffic accidents on Guyana’s roads, even as a number of traffic offences are committed just outside State House and the Police Headquarters at least weekly. In his New Year’s Message, Dr Ali said the carnage on Guyana’s roads “will be ...

A female vendor of the Parika Facade, East Bank Essequibo was early Sunday morning allegedly beaten to death by her husband who has since been arrested, the Guyana Police Force said. The dead woman has been identified as 25-year old Parbattie Amanda Persaud and the alleged perpetrator is 39-year old Guradean Lallaram, a mason, of Parika Facade. Investigators were informed ...

A vendor of D’urban Backlands Squatting Area, Georgetown was shot and assaulted by two of three men who turned up at his home late last week, police said. The motive for the attack on 31-year-old Quason Leacock was not known, but the man told investigators that one of the men only known as “Tallman’ asked him in an aggressive manner ...

A 56-year-old man of Wismar, Linden was Saturday afternoon chopped to death but not before slashing his brothers-in-law several times after they went to rescue their sister and her children from their home. the Guyana Police Force said Sunday. Dead is John Jones of Block 22 Squatting Area, Wismar. Investigators said his body was found lying at the back of ...

A senior Guyana Chronicle editorial staff member has been sent on leave as police on Saturday continued their investigation into sexual misconduct allegedly committed on a female member of the editorial department. “The male employee was immediately sent on administrative leave pending the outcome of the police investigation,” the Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL), publisher of the Guyana Chronicle newspaper, ...