Crime

A prime suspect in the murder of Guyanese agriculturist, Anthony Breedy, has been arrested with the dead man’s Automatic Teller Machine’s (ATM) card in his possession. Breedy’s Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) was also found at Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara with a fake license number written on pieces of cardboard. The detainee has already told investigators that he and his accomplices ...

A former Guyanese agriculturalist, who worked for years in Montserrat, was found dead at his home in Guyana on Monday. Dead is 60-year old Anthony Breedy of Hill Foot, Soesdyke-Linden Highway. The Guyana Police Force said Breedy sustained “multiple injuries to his head” and his hands and feet were tied. Investigators said his body was found in the lower flat and the ...

A third person was Thursday arraigned for the murder of the owner of the Regent Multiplex Mall in mid-2015 on the West Coast Demerara. Kurt Erskine of 285 Section ‘C’ Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara was not required to plea to the indictable charge after it was read to him by Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan. Particulars of the offence ...

Murder accused Errol Kesney (Williams) on Thursday gave his testimony to the Commissioners of the Commission of Inquiry into the Camp Street unrest where he detailed what occurred from his point of view. 32-year-old Kesney told the Commissioners that on Friday March 3, as the prisoners were making their way out of the block; they turned back, fearful that they ...

  Dwayne Lewis, the first person to give testimony at the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Camp Street riots says that prisoners felt a way after they were relieved of illicit items in the Camp Street jail. Lewis told Commissioners at the Inquiry that two large buckets containing contraband were taken from the prisoners in Capital A, after a ...

As the first day of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Camp Street Prison riot commenced on Thursday, one prisoner recounted that six cans of tear gas were lobbed into the building when the fire has started. Dwayne Lewis, a prisoner accused of manslaughter, told the Commissioners that the canisters came from outside to inside the building which, according ...

The body of suspected bandit was on Wednesday evening removed from the Railway Embankment, Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara. The body was identified as 19-year-old Sherwin Lynch of Sparendaam Housing Scheme. Police in a release on Thursday stated that the man was stabbed to death. Police say that the body was found with suspected stab wounds at about 20:30hrs. However, persons ...

A businessman was shot by bandits Wednesday afternoon when he attempted to intervene in a robbery nearby his business premises on High Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. Police said the  owner of G.A. Imports saw a robbery in progress and went inside for his licensed firearm. On returning, one of the bandits opened fire on him. “As soon as he returned to the front ...

In the wake of the deadliest prison riots in recent history, a delegation from the Guyana Prison Service is expected to travel to the United States to take part in series of exercises in a mock prison riot in West Virginia. This was announced by Government Spokesman and Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon. ...

A Guyanese model was Tuesday jailed for attempting to traffick cocaine-in-achar to the United States (US) more than one year ago. Magistrate Leron Daley sentenced 41-year old Sadeeka Leona Odie to four years imprisonment and fined her GYD$30,000. She was nabbed at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) by agents of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on February 8, 2014 ...