Crime

Police say they have recovered two of the several guns that were stolen from Radar Security Service. Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department Headquarters made a breakthrough in the case involving the theft of several Firearms belonging to Radar Security and Supplies Company which occurred on the 26th day of December 2022. Five persons are currently in police custody including ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) members Volda Lawrence, Carol Smith-Joseph and Dr Karen Cummings on Thursday refused to testify before the Commission of Inquiry into the March 2020 general and regional elections. While Dr Cummings was unrepresented and chose to “remain silent”, Ms Lawrence an Ms Smith-Joseph were represented by Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes. He told the three-member Commission that his ...

Acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken’s tenure looks set to be extended beyond the retirement age of 55 based on the performance of the force, Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn said Wednesday. Mr Hicken will be 55 years old on July 22, 2023. While Mr Benn opted not to speak directly to Mr Hicken successor, he signaled very strongly that the ...

A mechanic was shot and injured and a security guard was struck to his face with a liquor bottle early Sunday- New Year’s morning- after he told the driver of a car that he could not park and block the entrance to the Outside Bar at Movietowne, Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown. Sources said 30-year old Olofay De Santos was shot to ...

Two 16-year old schoolboys were early Tuesday morning arrested after one of them allegedly stole his uncle’s handgun and gave it to his friend who lives at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara. The Guyana Police Force said a licensed firearm holder of Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt reported at about 10 AM Christmas Day at the Ruimveldt Police Station that he ...

Police on Tuesday said they were investigating the alleged theft of several guns and a quantity of ammunition from Radar Security and Supplies’ Georgetown office. Investigators said they have since arrested a security guard and the Weapons Training Officer in connection with the theft that allegedly occurred between 10:00 AM, December 25 and 6:30 PM on December 26. Police said ...

Two brothers on Sunday- Christmas Day-  confessed to the killing of well-known interior Land Surveyor, Ricky Oswald Ambrose, after he allegedly shot at their camp and threatened to kill them if they did not move from the land on which they were working, police said Monday. Investigators said Randel Layne and Mario Moses confessed that they waylaid Ambrose,40, on October ...

Outgoing Guyana High Commissioner to India, Charrandass Persaud has publicly apologised to an well-known professor and animal rights activist in that Asian nation for verbally abusing her, but said it boiled down to women’s desire for equality with men. Recounting his altercation with Professor Sonya Gosh on August 1, 2022, he said “it’s a confession, it’s an admission and it’s ...

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) activist Carol Smith-Joseph on Wednesday appeared in court for 14 fraud charges because she allegedly “solely” approving transactions totalling GY$6.1 million while she a board director of the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme (MARDS) Rice Milling Complex Limited. She appeared before Mahaicony Magistrate, Marissa Mittelholzer with defence lawyers Nigel Hughes and Roysdale Forde. The accused ...

Guyanese police are doing well in detecting murders compared to their counterparts in Trinidad and Tobago, Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Deputy Police Commissioner  Wendell Blanhum said on Tuesday. He told the annual departmental awards ceremony that Guyana’s detection rate is at “an all-time high” with 80.3 percent compared to Trinidad and Tobago whose rate is 14 percent. “We ...