Crime

Kaieteur News Publisher Glenn Lall testified Tuesday as the Preliminary Inquiry into the grenade threat to his establishment continued. During his examination, Lall was asked by Police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers if as a publisher he has any grievances with persons or if he knows of any persons having problems with him. To this, the Publisher responded that he has no problem with ...

BARBADOS TODAY: A 32-year-old Guyanese national was Tuesday ordered to keep the peace for six months and vacate his current home by 6 p.m. today. Not only that, but Dexter Royston Plowell, of Rouen Road, Belle Gully, St Michael was also warned not to trespass on the premises he once shared with Jessica Walrond, after he admitted to using the threatening ...

BARBADOS TODAY: Guyanese national Mohamed Kazim Khan found himself in a heap of trouble for “mistakenly” putting a small bottle of insecticide in his pocket when he went into Carters. Not only did 44-year-old Khan, who lives at Eastlynne, St George get arrested and charged for the offence which landed him before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today, but his status ...

Convicted drug baron, Barry Dataram was Tuesday sentenced to additional imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to charges in connection with his recent escape to Suriname. Appearing before Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan, he confessed to passport forgery, absconding the law and illegal departure. Mc Lennan sentenced Dataram to 12 months for forgery of a Guyana passport,  two years for absconding the ...

A fuel dealer was robbed of GYD$6.2 million and other valuables near the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) , one hour after leaving a city bank, he told Demerara Waves Online News. Thirty-two year old Randy France of Barima, North West District told Demerara Waves Online News that four men, one of whom was armed with ...

A taxi driver, in trying to avoid further problems with the courts, promised Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan to repay the man he allegedly tricked out of GYD$90,000. The charge against Chetram Sukhanandan is that on October 10, 2016, at Herstelling, he was entrusted with $90,000 for the purpose of paying a mortgage, but he fraudulently converted the cash to his own ...

A woman was stabbed to death by her child’s father Monday afternoon at about 2 O’clock, and police are on the manhunt for the assailant who escaped into the Corentyne backlands. The dead woman has been identified as 38-year old Brusch of 20 Second Street, Ulverston, Corentyne, Berbice. Police said they are combing the thickly vegetated backlands for 43-year old ...

One of two bandits was arrested and the bandit’s handgun’s magazine along with cash belonging to the owner of a Chinese Restaurant recovered, police said. The Guyana Police Force credited the restaurateurs with “courage and bravery” in putting up a fight that led to the arrest of one of the suspected perpetrators. Investigators said the suspect is 23 years old ...

Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Mr. Winston Felix has said that a full investigation has been launched to determine the circumstances under which convicted drug lord Mr. Barry Dataram and his reputed wife, Ms. Anjanie Boodnarine were issued fake passports and that those culpable will face the harshest possible action. According to reports, Mr. Dataram and Ms. Boodnaraine were arrested ...

Convicted drug baron, Barry Dataram, and his wife, Anjanie Boodnarine, are back home and they had in their possession bogus Guyanese passports. They are in the names if David Persaud and Christine Persaud. The passport in the name of Persaud was issued on January 15, 2016 and the other in the name of David Persaud was issued on April 15, ...