Crime

France and Guyana on Tuesday discussed the need to strengthen cooperation in bringing wanted persons to justice in both c0untries, including the overseas department of French Guiana, and the return of Guyanese after serving jail terms, France’s Ambassador to Guyana Nicolas de Lacoste said. “We have people we are looking for. Sometimes they take refuge here in Guyana or they ...

A so far unidentified bandit was shot twice to his abdomen by a businessman during an attempted robbery at Tech Guy Solutions on Middleton Street, Georgetown, police said. The incident occurred Monday morning at about 11:40 a.m. when a man, whose name and other particulars were not immediately known, entered the premises and pointed a .38 revolver at the businessman ...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders are to hold a second symposium on widespread violent crime across the region in Guyana, shortly after holding talks with the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi in Georgetown, officials said Saturday. Though Barbados’ Prime Minister, Mia Mottley did not name the visiting leader to the region, multiple sources have confirmed that Mr Modi is due ...

American Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot on Friday said the United States (US) was paying attention to the swirling corruption allegations in the Guyana Police Force (GPF). “We don’t want to be providing resources and funding to an organisation that has those issues but, again, they are just allegations at this point,” she told Demerara Waves Online News. Emphasising that ...

Assistant Police Commissioner of the Guyana Police Force, Calvin Brutus is facing 240 “impending” charges totalling about GY$800 million, Head of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) and Assistant Police Commissioner Fizul Karimbaksh says in court documents. “I further contend that this investigation is significant and encompasses over 240 impending charges for alleged violations” of the Anti-Money ...

High Court Judge, Gino Persaud on Friday refused an application by Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus to accompany his wife to the United States for pregnancy-related medical attention. The police subsequently left at about 9 PM. Mr Brutus wanted to leave Guyana with his wife on Saturday. The Court refused the application based on the seriousness of the allegations and ...

Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus would not be charged for “certain activities” that he had been fingered in earlier this year, but the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) has recommended “dozens” of charges from a second a probe, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said Wednesday. “Earlier this year, SOCU launched an investigation into certain activities of Assistant Commissioner Brutus and ...

A suspected bandit was Monday morning shot and killed by the pawnbroker at a jewellery store and pawnshop on Trinity and Main streets, New Amsterdam, shortly after a customer was robbed and shot on the business premises, police said. “The owner, a licensed firearm holder, on hearing the commotion, immediately returned fire, causing the two suspects to flee with the ...

Guyanese police on Sunday found a plane with purported Brazilian registration markings on an illegal airstrip at Bashaizon Village, South Rupununi. Police said a man fell off a pickup and was arrested, but the pilot fled the scene in a vehicle across the Takatu River and into neighbouring Brazil. Investigators said the detained man, identified as 48-year-old Robistaine Peixoto Saraiva, ...

New York-based opposition political activist, Rickford Burke on Friday demanded GY$100 million in compensation from Guyanese city businessman, Roshan Khan, for allegedly libeling him in a Facebook post titled “In the Raw: Submachine Guns everywhere”. Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes demanded from Mr Khan an apology for his September 10, 2024 Facebook post which contains charges of serious libel on Mr Burke ...