Crime
Police, suspected bandit exchange gunfire in robbery hot-spot
The gun and ammunition that were dropped by a suspected bandit during a confrontation with police at St. Phillips Church...
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21 deportees arrive from US; to be monitored
At least 21 Guyanese deportees arrived from the United States (US) Tuesday afternoon, after serving jail terms for various offences....
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UPDATED: Bandits invade Finance Ministry compound, grab GYD$3M, shoot supervisor
A 29 year old male supervisor was Tuesday afternoon nursing a gunshot wound to his right thigh, having been robbed and...
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Jealous Guyanese man almost saws off wife’s head in Queens, New York
Police at the scene where a woman was found nearly decapitated at the corner of 124th Street and 103rd Avenue...
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Three robbed on lower East Coast Demerara
Bandits Thursday night struck on the lower East Coast Demerara, robbing two women and and a minibus driver in two...
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Bandits hooked at Meadow Bank fish depot
The 9MM handgun and ammunition that were allegedly found in possession of one of the suspected bandits at Wild Caught...
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Guyana not manufacturing crime statistics; more reports due to “renewed confidence”- Ramjattan
EU Ambassador Jernej Videtic looks on as Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan signs the EU Seaport Cooperation (SEACOP) Programme agreement....
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Gov’t, UNDP team up on US$64M youth crime and violence project
UNDP's Deputy Resident Representative Shabnam Mallick Guyana will benefit from a US$64M across-the-Caribbean project implemented by the United Nations Development...
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$369M Mazaruni Prison expansion to reduce Georgetown Prison overcrowding
The Mazaruni Prison Following the death of 17 inmates in a fatal fire at the Georgetown Prison earlier this year...
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Gov’t to boost 12 police stations tackling domestic violence
by Derwayne Wills The security sector will receive a budget of $29.1B with some of that money going to upgrade...
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